You can also do all of the commands from the rescue mode. What is concerning is that this major issue is still left untouched. Is there anything we can do to help?
On Sun, 5 Nov 2017, 10:05 pm William Haverstock, <dhave...@cs.kent.edu> wrote: > I had the blank screen, no login screen problem. > > The computer was otherwise running though. > > I ssh-ed from another computer to the problem computer > to execute the suggested commands. > > If on a home network you can login to your router with a > web browser to get the IP address for your problem computer. > > Mine was 192.168.1.3 > > The following fixed the problem for me. > > First I did (without the comment). > > sudo apt-get install lightdm # This showed lightdm was installed > > Second I did uname -r and found the completion for > the linux-headers-$(uname -r) command. > > I don't know why I didn't use the suggested: > sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) > > Then I did the suggested commands, one after the other: > sudo apt purge gdm3 > sudo apt purge nvidia* > sudo apt install linux-headers-4.13.0-16-generic # ADJUST THIS > sudo apt install nvidia-384 > sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm # Suggested when 1st command ran > sudo shutdown -r now # Restart > > Went to the problem computer, the login screen came up. > > The Desktop Environment that was selected was: > Ubuntu on Xorg(Default) > > I was able to login. > > My problem computer is at least 10 years old. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (1726425). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705369 > > Title: > Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a > desktop with an Intel GPU) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1705369/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705369 Title: Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a desktop with an Intel GPU) Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a desktop with an Intel GPU) WORKAROUNDS: * Disable integrated graphics/GPU in your BIOS. * Add 'nomodeset' to your kernel command line. ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: This bug is very similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1559576 which is closed. I have been asked to open a new bug report. The issue is on Ubuntu 17.10 with gdm3 fully updated as of July 20, 2017. I upgraded to 17.10 from a freshly installed Ubuntu 17.04. - Lightdm works - Nouveau driver works - Nvidia driver 375.66 (proprietary) does not work - Nvidia driver 384.47 (open source) does not work (from https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa) - Nvidia drivers work with Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 I am using Nvidia GTX 1080 and Intel i7-4790K lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch) Release: 17.10 apt-cache policy gnome-shell: gnome-shell: Installed: 3.24.2-0ubuntu7 Candidate: 3.24.2-0ubuntu7 Version table: *** 3.24.2-0ubuntu7 500 500 http://sa.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status uname -s -r -v -p -i -o: Linux 4.11.0-11-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 12 20:40:19 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1705369/+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
