upgrade 17.04 to 17.10 boot stuck at "Started gnome display manager.....

[wern1]

I upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10 but boot is stuck at

(ok) Started GNOME Display manager. script.neration........ance-master).p link was shut down....


Any help would be appreciated

[eneiluj]

Same for me.

[ OK ] Started OpenVPN service. Script Dispatcher Service...ystem changes.pp link was shut down.

There seems to be disk activity. Is it possible system is doing a filesystem check ?

[rajatkn]

Same problem here..
Can't start either gdm3 or lightdm.
Also tried reinstalling & configuring both.

[igouy]

You'll need to investigate the problem further.

One of the boot options will probably be:

Advanced options for Ubuntu

:choose that, then choose:

Ubuntu, with Linux 4.13.0-16-generic (recovery mode)

:and see if you can find any error messages in the logs in failsafe graphics mode.


So far I've managed to find a problem with missing NVidia packages, which led me to a networking problem seemingly caused by some resolvconf name-server mis-configuration.

I've managed to fix the resolvconf problem enough to load the missing Nvidia packages -- but now I'm stuck at:

[ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager.
[ OK ] Started Hostname Service.

[igouy]

fyi I'm about ready to accept that my 17.04 to 17.10 upgrade was a failure, and re-install 17.10 clean and then start doing all the other rework that will be needed. Good luck.

[wern1]

Well, I got it somehow running again, but admit is was playing around without really knowing what I was doing. This just a a warning.
What I did was delete Nvidia "apt-get purge nvidia-*". I don't have an Nvidia-card but a Radeon card, so I have unfortunately no clue if this was/could be a reason. I just notice that other people also have problems upgrading from 17.04 to 17.10.
Now I have the following choices at login:

gnomegnome unter xorg
gnome under xorg (without ubuntu picture)
ubuntu (standard)
ubuntu on xorg (without ubuntu picture)
ubuntu on xorg
unity (without ubuntu picture)
All first 5 choices do NOT work, but after a loop end up again at the login screen.
Choice No 6 "Unity" works and I have my system back up running. I will for the time being not fiddle around anymore but if upgrades do not solve the problem soon, then I will at some point do a new install of 17.10.

[dino99]

Please do a separate partition install for each DE, dont mix them if you lokk at stability.

[wern1]

Thanks. Ehhm. Actually I would prefer only having one DE - Ubuntu 17.10 with Wayland. I don't even know how I ended up with all the choices. I was able to delete "plasma" but don't dare to fiddle around with the rest for fear of loosing access again as my competence doing this is limited.

[mörgæs]

There have been some reports of problems running Ubuntu 17.10 with Nvidia. I don't know the details more than 'somehow related to Wayland'.

If everything else fails you could try a fresh install of Lubuntu 17.10 which has not yet implemented Wayland.