Inconsistant boot, hangs during, I think it's GPU related

nugai

5/27/24, 8:30 PM

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Installed NVIDIA driver last week, haven't had problems until now. Boot hangs at different part of boot usually. ~ 1 in 6 attempts boots without issue. advanced booting into recovery mode, older release seems to help. Shutdown sometimes doesn't work, with the error message: "Waiting for process: Xorg.wrap, gpu-manager Sending SIGKILL to remaining processes... Sending SIGKILL to PID 1519 (Xorg.wrap). Sending SIGKILL to PID 2017 (gpu-manager). Waiting for process: gpu-manager, Xorg.wrap"

This is my first post, so apologies for etiquette and formatting deficiencies in advance.

Error log from failed boot, red messages only:

: [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice

[drm:nv_drm_probe_devices [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register devic

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

systemd[2]: Failed to start Detect the available GPUs and deal with any system changes.
pulseaudio[1843]: Error opening PCM device front:0: No such file or directory

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nugai

5/27/24, 9:50 PM

I followed this guide: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-22-04. It seemed to work fine as running games after the driver install had much better performance. I used the CLI portion of guide. current driver is nvidia-driver-530-open - distro non-free recommended

nugai

5/27/24, 10:20 PM

The reason I installed the drivers is when installing Ubuntu initially the nvidia drivers negatively impacted the performance drastically. So I used whatever generic drivers came with Ubuntu. As I got used to Ubuntu I started using Windows less and less (dual boot on laptop). I've booted windows like twice in 6 months now. I decided I wanted a couple steam games on Ubuntu and decided to try to install nvidia drivers again. I didn't have any issues for a week after install, and yesterday trying to boot I run into these issues. I perform apt update everyday, maybe a recent update caused issues?

nugai

5/28/24, 12:18 AM

I don't recall if i accepted proprietary drivers during the initial install. I likely followed whatever was recommended during install, if ubuntu even prompts for it. As for for the nvidia driver guide, in bash I input: "ubuntu-drivers devices", "sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall". Iirc, auto install did not install a nvidia driver, as I ended up inputing "sudo apt install nvidia-driver-nvidia-driver-530-open". I rebooted, and things seemed to work. Until now. The initial Ubuntu install was roughly 18 months ago, and I don't recall what graphics driver was installed. Should I reinstall Ubuntu?

nugai

5/28/24, 2:29 AM

It seems to be stable using an older release from the grub menu. I'll just work around it for the time being and see if I can't track down the problem. Thanks for your help, I appreciate the effort!

nobody

5/28/24, 3:05 PM

Can you try bootoption nogpumanager?

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5/30/24, 2:35 AM

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