With gdm3 a restart is needed when switching prime profiles

Bug #1704781 reported by Doug McMahon
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm3 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
nvidia-prime (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Test case:
Install nvidia drivers ,restart.
Open nvidia-settings, switch prime profile.
Will be prompted to log out/in, do so

What happens: user goes into a log in loop
To actually get back to the ubuntu-session one must restart.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: nvidia-prime 0.8.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 17 07:57:24 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-15 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170708)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-prime
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

As this is obviously true, confirmed
Maybe edit the message to say "restart"

Changed in nvidia-prime (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Maybe something like this if not able to fix which it's not thru today

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Dylan Borg (borgdylan) wrote :

When using newer nvidia drivers such as 387, switching back to intel fails to put the mesa libraries back into the LD path causing a machine freeze on login.

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: [Bug 1704781] Re: With gdm3 a restart is needed when switching prime profiles

On 10/08/2017 03:41 AM, Dylan Borg wrote:
> When using newer nvidia drivers such as 387, switching back to intel
> fails to put the mesa libraries back into the LD path causing a machine
> freeze on login.
>
Please clarify your comment, does the switch succeed with a restart
(this bug) or if not then that is a new misbehavior & should get a
separate report.

tags: added: nvidia
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Last year this may have mattered. (17.10
 Now in 18.04 a restart is required anyway so marking invalid.

Changed in nvidia-prime (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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