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I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 without any errors. When I restarted, I got a black screen with a blinking cursor (couldn't type anything) right after GRUB. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 got me to a terminal session.

I rebooted, then tried editing GRUB by pressing e and changing quiet splash to nomodeset. Pressed F10. It didn't work.

I had to reboot, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 then remove the nvidia drivers by typing sudo apt-get purge ^nvidia. Only then was Ubuntu able to boot successfully.

I installed the nvidia 340.107 drivers from the Additional Drivers tab in Software & Updates. Rebooting got me to the same black screen as before, and I had to purge the nvidia drivers again.

System: AMD FX-6300 CPU, Asrock 970 Extreme mobo, 8 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 9600GT.

Thank you.

glottis
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I had this issue too with the nvidia drivers and Ubuntu 18.10. I found a thread on the French Ubuntu website which helped me. It's a fix for Ubuntu 17.10 but it worked for me on 18.10.

Try this:

  1. Edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf:

    sudo gedit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

  2. Here uncomment the line

    #WaylandEnable=false

    which becomes also

    WaylandEnable=false

    Don't forget to save!

With this you should be able to install the nvidia drivers (I'm using the 390 version which works for me).

Source

MoussierElPatate
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This thread helped me with the same problem (Ubuntu 18.04 GTX1080)

sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

for low latency kernel headers then add 

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1"

to your grub. Then you need to regenerate the initramfs and the Kernel modules. Dont forget to update your grub.sudo update-grub2.

Hope this helps.

David
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I had this issue after upgrading from 18.04. I have a nvidia 1070ti GPU and was previously using the nvidia-390 driver successfully with 18.04. For me, the upgrade (somehow) completed but left several packages partially installed i.e. I noticed several in iu state (not ii as expected) by doing this

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

I finished the install by doing this

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo reboot

which fixed the issue. Now, everything is fine. Hope that helps!

Michael Sandman
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