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Bug 750157 - GNOME doesn't start after nvidia proprietary driver installation
GNOME doesn't start after nvidia proprietary driver installation
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: drivers
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 750060 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-05-30 18:32 UTC by Vladislav Korecký
Modified: 2017-03-12 16:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.15/3.16


Description Vladislav Korecký 2015-05-30 18:32:26 UTC 
I have notebook Acer V7-482PG with NVIDIA card:
NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (rev ff)

After installation of NVIDIA proprietary driver I cannot start GNOME-SHELL or GDM.
But If I use KDE, Unity or XFCE everything works.
If I replace GDM by Lihtdm, I can see login screen, but if I choose GNOME SHELL session, computer crashed.
I tested it on several distributions Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10, 15.04, Fedora 21, 22 with the same result.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2015-05-31 11:11:03 UTC 
Which exact version of the "Nvidia proprietary driver"?
Comment 2 Vladislav Korecký 2015-06-01 06:45:55 UTC 
HW info:
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (rev ff)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

I tried install these versions (Ubuntu repository, RPMFusion on Fedora and also NVIDIA sh installer):
- 331.113 (Ubuntu 14.04)
- 346.72-2.fc22.1 (Fedora 22)
- 346.72 (NVIDIA sh installer on Ubuntu and Fedora)
Comment 4 Bruce Pieterse 2016-04-30 19:12:15 UTC 
This is now affecting 3.18.x as well. Looking at older downstream bugs for Ubuntu GNOME, this seems to have gone back to 3.10 already.
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2016-04-30 19:58:19 UTC 
*** Bug 750060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jeremy Bicha 2017-03-02 21:02:43 UTC 
Do you still experience this bug?

Do you have xserver-xorg-legacy installed?
Comment 7 Jeremy Bicha 2017-03-12 16:20:44 UTC 
I'm going to go ahead and close this bug since it appears to be an Ubuntu packaging issue with a missing dependency.