Ubuntu – Login loop when any Nvidia driver installed (ubuntu 16.04.3 , unity, lightdm)

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[temporarily resolved] Almost every time the system updates, I need to reinstall the NVIDIA driver. But now it's in loop login with the NVIDIA driver installed.
I have installed the direct driver of the site and also by "apt" (any version) and none works.

When uninstalling the driver, it works normal.

I tried several tutorials!!

information:

Intel graphics / nvidia geforce 930M
Linux 4.4.0-96-generic

Solution

I formatted and soon deactivated the kernel update

sudo apt-mark hold linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic

then I installed the nvidia 384.69 driver from the site
I installed 304 (apt install nvidia-304) and re-installed 384.69 from the site

I do not know if it works with 384.90

** To go back**
sudo apt-mark unhold linux-image-generic linux-headers-generic

sorry for my English.

Best Answer

I am using exactly the same hardware as OP, and I concluded that latest nvidia-384 driver (version 384.69-0ubuntu0~gpu14.04.1) from ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa does not fit the latest 4.4.0-96 kernel.

So I just remove it to downgrade my system to 4.4.0-93:

WARNING: destructive command, make sure you have another bootable kernel !

sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-4.4.0-96 linux-image-4.4.0-96-generic

Note that this may cause the kernel not updating anymore, so sometime after Nvidia fixing this I may decide to install back.

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