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cwcamp
June 23rd, 2019, 05:21 PM
I run ubuntu 18.04 and up until recently kernel 4.18.0.21.22. It has ran flawlessly these last few months. After I did an update I turned my computer off for the night. when I went to boot it the next day it would hang on the splash screen with the loading dots. The mouse pointer would appear but not move. Upon researching I discovered adding "nomodeset" into the boot option on the grub menu. This got me into the system but with limited functionality and I'm now stuck. I've tried a couple different kernels but all of them do the same thing. I can only boot with "nomodeset" and I need the gpu to function for my daily use. I'll include system info below here:

I have installed a few games that took a lot to make function and I desperately do not want to clean boot my system.

This is my inxi output:

System: Host: dragon-B450-AORUS-M Kernel: 5.1.14-050114-generic x86_64
bits: 64 gcc: 8.3.0
Desktop: Gnome 3.28.4 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu3)
Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B450 AORUS M v: x.x serial: N/A
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F5 date: 01/25/2019

CPU: Quad core AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with Radeon Vega Graphics (-MT-MCP-)
arch: Zen rev.0 cache: 2048 KB

flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 28746
clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 1510 MHz 2: 1520 MHz 3: 2237 MHz
4: 2247 MHz 5: 1519 MHz 6: 1592 MHz 7: 1464 MHz 8: 1451 MHz

Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
bus-ID: 06:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.20.1 )
drivers: fbdev,ati (unloaded: modesetting,vesa,radeon)
Resolution: 1024x768@76.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 9.0, 128 bits)
version: 3.3 Mesa 19.2.0-devel - padoka PPA Direct Render: Yes

Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 15e3
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 06:00.6
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 15de
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 06:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k5.1.14-050114-generic

Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 port: f000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (58.9% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: CT500MX500SSD4 size: 500.1GB temp: 44C

Partition: ID-1: / size: 457G used: 275G (64%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2

RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: No active sensors found. Have you configured your sensors yet? mobo: N/A

Info: Processes: 318 Uptime: 18 min Memory: 2597.4/14031.8MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56

journalctl doesn't show anything wrong when I run it.

edit: I forgot to mention on startup I get a black screen that says this: "AMD-Vi: Unable to write to IOMMU perf counter"

cwcamp
June 24th, 2019, 02:06 AM
I seem to have fixed it. for anyone else who might have this issue here's what I did:

1. Press escape during purple screen before loading screen to bring up grub menu
2. Pressed e key to edit and replace "quiet splash" with "nomodeset"
3. Installed kernel 4.19 and install lightdm
4. opened a terminal and ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm"
5. chose light DM
6. ran "sudo reboot"

then it was working again. I guess my gdm was messed up some kinda way.