For a period, I had the graphics-drivers PPA added, with the 415 driver installed. I wanted to go back to the proprietary driver I had before, the 390 driver, but I made a mistake in removing the PPA before switching back. During the switching process, Ubuntu gave an error message (unfortunately I don’t recall the error message, but it said something about cache).
After restarting my ststem, the boot process would be stuck on a flood of “Starting NVIDIA persistence daemon” and “Stopping NVIDIA persistence daemon” messages, and to get a successful boot I needed to enter recovery mode and prime-select intel.
If I enter nvidia-settings into the terminal whilst using nvidia-driver-390, the system hangs. It also hangs if I run nvidia-bug-report.sh, with the .log.gz generated only containing the following:
____________________________________________
Start of NVIDIA bug report log file. Please include this file, along
with a detailed description of your problem, when reporting a graphics
driver bug via the NVIDIA Linux forum (see devtalk.nvidia.com)
or by sending email to 'linux-bugs@nvidia.com'.
nvidia-bug-report.sh Version: 23805530
Date: Tue 26 Feb 16:29:05 GMT 2019
uname: Linux u-rdm 4.18.0-15-generic #16~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 7 14:06:04 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
command line flags:
/var/log/nvidia-installer.log contains the following:
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Fri Dec 14 16:54:37 2018
installer version: 410.78
PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin
nvidia-installer command line:
./nvidia-installer
Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 410.78.
-> Running distribution scripts
executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'...
-> done.
-> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue? (Answer: Abort installation)
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
Running dpkg -l | grep nvidia gives me the following:
ii libnvidia-cfg1-390:amd64 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii libnvidia-common-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
ii libnvidia-compute-390:amd64 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-compute-390:i386 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 i386 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-decode-390:amd64 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-decode-390:i386 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 i386 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-encode-390:amd64 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-encode-390:i386 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 i386 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-fbc1-390:amd64 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-fbc1-390:i386 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii libnvidia-gl-390:i386 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii libnvidia-ifr1-390:amd64 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library
ii libnvidia-ifr1-390:i386 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library
ii nvidia-compute-utils-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-dkms-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package
ii nvidia-driver-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.8.2 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-utils-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 390.77-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.