#HOW TO FIX DISPLAY DRIVER FAIL TO START DRIVERS#

If your system has an Nvidia video card, try to remove the Nvidia proprietary drivers with the following command: sudo apt-get remove -purge nvidia-* Fix number 2Įdit the file /etc/gdm3/nf and uncomment the line: The only way that the network will work in recovery mode is through DCHP and cable connection. If your system connects through Wi-Fi or needs some configuration profile that is on the OS, just select without enabling the network. This will open a menu with three options and we select the second one, which is Advanced options for Ubuntu, on the next page we select, and on the last page, we select. You can do that by pressing either the Shift key or ESC key repeatedly right after reboot, but before the Ubuntu logo is shown. We need to reboot the system into Recovery Mode in order to fix it. We need to understand that this issue is not caused by bpfilter or has anything related to it, just that the “ Starting bpfilter” message is the last output on the screen before it crashes. This issue can be caused by multiple factors and can be solved in many ways, depending on the issue that has caused it.

The operating system will not respond to any keyboard input, and the only way to get out of this is to power down the computer. The system will hang permanently at boot time, no matter how many times we reboot the OS, with the last message being Starting bpfilter and with the Gnome Display Manager failing to start. How it startsĪfter an update to the latest version, either through: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade How it manifests

The following bug manifests on all versions of Ubuntu, starting with Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 19.04 ( Disco Dingo) and Ubuntu 19.10 ( Eoan Ermine).

How to fix display driver fail to start