Interesting. Just my two (Euro) cents, could that be related to the Nvidia drivers being loaded early in the boot process, and being in the initramfs ?
Imho, the only things that should reside in the initramfs are the tools needed for the kernel to get access to the root filesystem, period. No need for fancy graphics before that, and I'm sure even people encrypting their root fs could be happy with an "ugly" password prompt. I mean, fancy graphics are nice, but that's worth nothing if the system is unbootable, and playing with the early boot process shouldn't be done lightly. I too had problems with my system being unbootable after upgrade (related to the Nvidia driver too), and among other things I removed everything that was setting the FRAMEBUFFER initramfs option, because that's what brings the Nvidia driver in the initramfs. I wasn't sure that solved my problem though, but now that I read that removing the splash option from the kernel command line solves a similar problem, I'm thinking about it again... On my laptop, two files were setting the FRAMEBUFFER option : /etc /initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash that was created upon installing the MATE desktop environment, and a configuration hook script that was installed by the crypsetup-initramfs package. I removed the first file and purged the crypsetup-initramfs package, and got no more Nvidia GPU driver in the initramfs ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845801 Title: [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail. Killing gnome-session-binary fixes it, or just not using automatic login. Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in gdm3 source package in Eoan: Incomplete Status in gnome-session source package in Eoan: Incomplete Status in gnome-shell source package in Eoan: Incomplete Bug description: I just updated to the Ubuntu 19.10 beta. After boot, I'm shown the GDM login screen (which I shouldn't; I have auto login enabled), and logging in just takes me back to the same user selection screen even though the password is correct. If I switch to a TTY and run `sudo pkill gnome-session-binary`, logging in through GDM starts working again. I should add that the do-release-upgrade was rocky; I did it in a terminal from within gnome, went away for a while, and when I returned, I just saw an Ubuntu 19.10 in a TTY. I was able to do `sudo dpkg --configure -a` and complete the upgrade, but I don't know if something's still messed up due to that. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu12 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-13.14-generic 5.3.0 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0' .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: "" .proc.driver.nvidia.suspend: suspend hibernate resume .proc.driver.nvidia.suspend_depth: default modeset uvm .proc.driver.nvidia.version: NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 435.21 Sun Aug 25 08:17:57 CDT 2019 GCC version: gcc version 9.2.1 20190909 (Ubuntu 9.2.1-8ubuntu1) ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Sep 28 19:55:42 2019 DistUpgraded: 2019-09-28 18:35:15,142 INFO cache.commit() DistroCodename: eoan DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: nvidia, 435.21, 5.3.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] [10de:1b06] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] [1043:85e4] InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-14 (13 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416) MachineType: MSI MS-7A67 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-13-generic root=UUID=04974c80-e732-49b6-8148-c3dce7c02a25 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display Title: Xorg crash UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-09-28 (0 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 01/25/2018 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2.60 dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string dmi.board.name: H270I GAMING PRO AC (MS-7A67) dmi.board.vendor: MSI dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2.60:bd01/25/2018:svnMSI:pnMS-7A67:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnH270IGAMINGPROAC(MS-7A67):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0: dmi.product.family: Default string dmi.product.name: MS-7A67 dmi.product.sku: Default string dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: MSI version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.99-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.1.6-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.5+git20190820-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.0.1-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20190815-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1845801/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
