Bug#910552: gnome-shell fails to see my GPU

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Le lundi 08 octobre 2018 à 01:42:29+0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue a écrit :
> Source: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.30.0-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since my upgrade to gnome-shell 3.30.0-3, gdm3 is no longer starting
> properly.
> 
> My computer is under testing, and runs a 4.18.0-1 kernel with
> nvidia-kernel-dkms 390.87-2.
> 
> The issue seems to reside in these specific lines:
> Oct  8 01:18:06 jaatynyt gnome-shell[7822]: meta_kms_resources_init
> failed: Calling drmModeGetResources(
> Oct  8 01:18:06 jaatynyt gnome-shell[7822]: Failed to create backend: No
> GPUs with outputs found
>
> [snip]

Apparently, these log lines appeared in my syslog for quite some time, even
before the current issue I'm meeting.

To describe it, after the end of the boot process, I get a blank screen with
only a blinking cursor at the top-left part of the screen. No debug, no way
to get any intel.

lightdm starts properly, same for xdm.

I believe it's connected to the gpu, I'll run some tests.

Cheers.

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Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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