I have been trying to reproduce this bug in VMware but have not been able to. Ubuntu 18.04 always starts up with a login screen successfully for me.
What it does not do successfully is offer the "Ubuntu on Wayland" option most of the time. So I expect that's the same root cause as this bug. Ordinarily if Wayland support is attempted and fails gracefully then your journalctl log should show something like: Jun 14 02:28:16 ubuntu gnome-shell[790]: Failed to create backend: Could not find a primary drm kms device If you don't see that message and still don't get Wayland support then it suggests mutter/gnome-shell is crashing during that attempt to try Wayland. In that case we would ask you to follow these instructions from within the virtual machine: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_a_crash_report_or_having_a_.crash_attachment I'll dig a bit deeper to try and find out why Wayland support seems to work so rarely, because that's the part of this bug I can reproduce. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1832138 Title: Login screen never appears on vmwgfx but setting WaylandEnable=false fixes it To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1832138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
