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SubinR
Asked: 2020-07-31 13:25:15 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 20.04 not booting after choosing different NVidia Proprietary driver. Failed to start NVidia Persistence Daemon

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Getting [FAILED] - Failed to start NVidia Persistence Daemon. And the screen went black with the cursor blinking in 20.04.

My videos were getting stuck and not playing properly in the VLC. So, I tried to update the Nvidia driver. I went to the Additional Drivers tab, it had "using (proprietory, tested) selected by default, but I selected the second option which was having just (proprietory) and clicked apply changes. I got the dialog box to give a secure boot password and I gave it. Upon restart, I got a small blue box with options "Continue to boot", Open MDK, and one more option. I chose "Continue to boot". And the system started to boot but got stuck with a cursor blinking in black screen. It's not successfully booting. I searched this forum and as suggested in other posts, tried to disable the Secure boot option and restarted again. This time, I pressed Ctl + Alt + F1 and I could see the statuses. In that I saw the message [FAILED] - Failed to start NVidia Persistence Daemon. And the screen went black with the cursor blinking.

I don't get the GRUB screen to go to the terminal mode to uninstall or update the driver. How can I fix it? Please suggest.

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1 Answers

  1. I was able to fix using the below steps:

    While booting, keep pressing Esc after the manufacturer logo and before the Ubuntu logo appears.

    The GRUB Menu should appear. But for me I got the GRUB command line instead.

    grub>

    Type normal and hit Enter. And keep pressing Esc again. Will get the GRUB menu now.

    Choose the line that starts with "Advance Options:" and hit Enter. You will get a Recovery Menu box: Choose the option

    root  - Drop to root shell prompt.

    You will get the root command prompt at the bottom of the screen. Type the below commands to fix it, i.e, to uninstall/remove the Nvidia proprietary drivers and install the default drivers.

    ubuntu-drivers list  # To see the list of drivers
apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
reboot # to restart the system.

    The Ubuntu was rebooting again as usual.

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