Based on a discussion with ~albertomilone, powering down the NVIDIA GPU while keeping the modules loaded is the way to go long-term as opposed to blacklisting the modules.
The power management feature is described here (requires Turing GPUs and above): http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/440.44/README/dynamicpowermanagement.html My GPU is pre-Turing (Pascal, 1060m), however, powering off is not where the problem is. Running `prime-select intel` creates /lib/udev/rules.d/80-pm- nvidia.rules which contains the following line to unbind an NVIDIA GPU device from its driver: https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-prime/blob/cf757cc9585dfc032930379fc81effb3a3d59606/prime-select#L164-L165 ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x10de", ATTR{class}=="0x030000", ATTR{remove}="1" If I comment it out, I can boot just fine with my iGPU after running `prime-select intel`. The resulting 80-pm-nvidia.rules file looks like this: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/HX6t9y8BPg/ Just commenting out the power management lines while leaving the unbinding in-place results in the same issue (80-pm-nvidia.rules: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/mTdXbZZk8H/). The unbinding operation hangs which results in something like this even before X11 or gdm3 are attempted to be started: [ 15.683190] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 511. [ 15.824882] NVRM: Attempting to remove minor device 0 with non-zero usage count! [ 15.824903] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 15.825082] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 759 at /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/440.59/build/nvidia/nv-pci.c:577 nv_pci_remove+0x338/0x360 [nvidia] # ... [ 15.825330] ---[ end trace 353e142c2126a8a0 ]--- # ... [ 242.649248] INFO: task nvidia-persiste:1876 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 242.649931] Tainted: P W O 5.4.0-12-generic #15-Ubuntu [ 242.650618] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 242.651319] nvidia-persiste D 0 1876 1 0x00000004 Eventually it fails with a timeout: systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. systemd[1]: Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. Masking nvidia-persistenced via `sudo systemctl mask nvidia- persistenced` and rebooting shows that systemd-udevd and rmmod hang as well: Feb 9 17:18:43 blade systemd-udevd[717]: 0000:01:00.0: Worker [756] processing SEQNUM=4430 is taking a long time Feb 9 17:18:43 blade systemd-udevd[717]: 0000:01:00.1: Worker [746] processing SEQNUM=4440 is taking a long time Feb 9 17:20:43 blade systemd-udevd[717]: 0000:01:00.1: Worker [746] processing SEQNUM=4440 killed Feb 9 17:20:43 blade systemd-udevd[717]: 0000:01:00.0: Worker [756] processing SEQNUM=4430 killed Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.818665] INFO: task systemd-udevd:746 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.819381] Tainted: P W O 5.4.0-12-generic #15-Ubuntu Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.820075] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.820797] systemd-udevd D 0 746 717 0x00000324 # ... Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.823033] rmmod D 0 1939 1937 0x00004000 Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.823034] Call Trace: # ... Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.823783] nvkms_close_gpu+0x50/0x80 [nvidia_modeset] Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.823793] _nv002598kms+0x14d/0x170 [nvidia_modeset] # ... Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.823893] ? nv_linux_drm_exit+0x9/0x768 [nvidia_drm] Feb 9 17:21:31 blade kernel: [ 242.823897] ? __x64_sys_delete_module+0x147/0x290 # ... ** Attachment added: "syslog-nvidia-persistenced-hang.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime/+bug/1848326/+attachment/5326678/+files/syslog-nvidia-persistenced-hang.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-prime in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848326 Title: [cosmic+] error booting with prime-select intel: prime-select does not update initramfs to blacklist nvidia modules Status in nvidia-prime package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: when I try to boot with the iGPU selected, DE won't boot, with nvidia selected, everithing is fine. I tried uninstalling nvidia driver and it allowed my to access without any problems and intel is working fine ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: nvidia-prime 0.8.13 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Wed Oct 16 12:41:26 2019 Dependencies: InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-25 (20 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Beta amd64 (20190925) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: nvidia-prime UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime/+bug/1848326/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
