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After installing the latest nvidia drivers on my Ubuntu 17.10, my boot screen has started to have this black on purple overlay:

Photo of Issue

I'm on a GTX 770 Video Card. I've reinstalled the drivers (v390) while also downgrading to v384 to no avail:

sudo apt purge 'nvidia-*'
sudo apt install nvidia-390

I also grabbed the boot-repair tool to reinstall the GRUB and boot settings in case but that has also had no effect:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair

Finally, I tried following these instructions which also had no effect: https://blog.countableset.com/2017/06/01/ubuntu-1704-install-nvidia-drivers/

Would love any thoughts around this if anyone else has seen anything like this, otherwise, happy to file a bug somewhere if anyone can provide best details on where and what logs would be valuable.

Thanks

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  • I recently saw something like this on an old laptop with NVIDIA Geoforce 8300 graphics. I was using the legacy nvidia-304 driver which worked well, but it got broken by a kernel update and apparently isn't going to be fixed. I tried running nvidia-340 instead and I often got a screen like your picture, and my filesystem kept getting corrupted. I gave up and installed the noveau driver, and it works OK. The old nvidia-304 managed the power level much better though, the laptop gets really hot with noveau. Mar 5, 2018 at 1:08
  • I have this same issue after a clean ubuntu 17.10 install and updating to the recent nvidia drivers :(
    – jrsm
    Mar 14, 2018 at 13:36

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This is a regression introduced recently (GRUB version 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.2). This is fixed now and the fix has been released. Update your system by running

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

which should update GRUB to version 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.3 and your GRUB screen should look like before now.

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