Hello World :smile:
This is my condition and problem:
(my computer is ASUS N552VW with NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 960M)
boot and install a Ubuntu 16.04 [successfully]
update my new OS [successfully]
using these commands to install cuda according to my flies and versions (CUDA 9)
2.0 $ sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-.deb [successfully]
2.1 $ sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-/7fa2af80.pub [successfully]
2.2 $ sudo apt-get update [successfully]
2.3 $ sudo apt-get install cuda [successfully]
reboot [successfully]
Problem: after system boots, i donāt have any GUI to login! just gnu/linux console comes up. when i try to startx or restart lightdm/gdm console print that it canāt find display
This looks (to me) like a problem with the nvidia driver for your GPU. It happened to me the first time when I setup my computer, then recently (two days ago) when I updated Python3 and installed cuda-9.0. Any of the two may be the root cause of the problem - either a python change can make huge problems with Ubuntu programs you had no idea they were using python, or a nvidia driver change (by the cuda install) can give a GUI problem after reboot.
To fix the GUI : google sudo apt purge nvidia* # to remove the nvidia driver, and get back to nouveau.
With the GUI : check that your system is okay (update first the versions of Python2 and Python3), check the āinstall cuda checklistā (Pre-installation actions in Installation Guide Linux :: CUDA Toolkit Documentation ).
Hope this helps.
Why my story may help you :
Yesterday, I installed from scratch cuda-9.0, cuDNN-7.0, tensorflow with VirtualEnv, and tested all variations (python2 and CPU, python3 and CPU, python2 and GPU, python3 and GPU).
The day before yesterday, I had changed a symlink python3 ā python3.5 into python3 ā python3.6, which was a major mistake as important Ubuntu programs rely on this python3 ā python3.5 symlink. And I was struggling, just like you are today, with no GUI at boot (lightdm ok, but Unity canāt start, and nor gnome-desktop nor i3 helped as alternatives).
Installing cuda-9.0 automatically changed the nvidia driver for my GTX 970 from nvidia-375 to nvidia-384.