Hi, I’m running into a similar bug to “Ubuntu 18.04 cannot boot after installing recommended nvidia driver 470” (forum won’t let me add more than 1 link). My computer is a single-boot Ubuntu desktop which I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 with an Nvidia GP104 (Geforce 1080). I didn’t previously install any Nvidia driver as far as I know. Today I attempted to install the recommended driver via:
This installed nvidia-driver-470. After restarting, instead of booting to a desktop, the computer booted to a screen with some text output like “Stopping User Manager for UID 123…”. I was able to get out of this by uninstalling all nvidia packages via:
I tried a few other methods of installing nvidia drivers including using the PPA and using the “additional drivers” found in “Software & Updates” application. All of them result in something like the above.
Has anyone run into this before? Thanks for any help.
You booted a kernel that has no headers installed. Please check that you booted into the correct 18.04 kernel in grub menu, uninstall the runfile driver, install headers sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) and reinstall the driver using Software&Updates
Thanks for quick response. It doesn’t look like the runfile driver was installed. After running the install headers command, it looks like headers are also already up-to-date:
linux-headers-4.15.0-197-generic is already the newest version (4.15.0-197.208).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
dkms libatomic1:i386 libbsd0:i386 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2:i386 libedit2:i386 libelf1:i386 libexpat1:i386 libffi6:i386 libgl1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386
libglvnd0:i386 libglx-mesa0:i386 libglx0:i386 libllvm10:i386 libnvidia-compute-470:i386 libnvidia-decode-470:i386 libnvidia-encode-470:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 libpciaccess0:i386 libsensors4:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libwayland-client0:i386
libwayland-server0:i386 libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb-dri2-0:i386 libxcb-dri3-0:i386 libxcb-glx0:i386 libxcb-present0:i386 libxcb-sync1:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxdamage1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386
libxnvctrl0 libxshmfence1:i386 libxxf86vm1:i386 linux-objects-nvidia-470-4.15.0-197-generic linux-signatures-nvidia-4.15.0-197-generic screen-resolution-extra
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
I then re-installed driver 470 via Software & Updates, restarted, and the computer booted to the same text-only screen without terminal prompt.
Something possibly relevant is that I was only able to run nvidia-bug-report.sh when in recovery mode, in case that affects what appears in the bug report. Is it possible that recovery mode does not have headers present for whatever reason?
ERROR: Failed to run `/usr/sbin/dkms build -m nvidia -v 515.86.01 -k 4.15.0-197-generic`: Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 4.15.0-197-generic cannot be found.
Maybe the dkms build link is missing. Please check that
/lib/modules/4.15.0-197-generic/build
exists and is a symlink to the headers directory.