18.04 daily build "hang"

[David L]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 February 2018 at 03:39, David L <david4lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So the answer is that ctrl-alt-F[1234567] don't work when it gets into
> that
> > state and neither does the caps lock light change when I press the
> button.
> > Furthermore, after an upgrade, it gets into an even less responsive state
> > where the mouse doesn't respond.
> >
> > Additionally, after I installed kubuntu-desktop and logged in under
> plasma
> > with Wayland and then rebooted and tried to log into a standard Ubuntu
> > session, I got this error window on a black screen:
> >
> > "unsupported number of arguments (4); falling back to default session"
> >
> > Another problem I saw was that one of my monitors is in portrait mode and
> > when I move the mouse across the right boundary, I see two mouse pointers
> > for a while... one where it should be in the window the to right and one
> > where it would be if it was in landscape mode.
>
>
> Does it freeze before or after login?
>
It hangs after login.


> Try booting with the ``nomodeswitch'' kernel parameter.
>
> Ok, I'll try that next time. For some reason I haven't been able to stop
grub before booting, but I'll try again.


> You can also try the nVidia drivers if you can get to a console -- no
> harm if it's already broken.
>
> I tried to install the nVidia drivers, but nvidia-settings gave me some
error about not finding any displays.




> Install an ssh server, then you can connect from another machine and
> have a poke around and see what's going on.
>
> I did install the sshd, but I forgot the right static IP address that I
needed to get to this system from my other computer through firewalls.
Next time I boot to it, I'll try that, but I'm pretty sure the ssh
connection will die at the same time as the hang.
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