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[Johnny Arthur <1574732@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First of all, thank you for your fast response! It is amazing!

Yes, there was a question about secure boot, but - just as other users
who experienced the same problem - I was not aware about the significant
change in the handling of secure boot and the consequences thereof.
Formerly Ubuntu worked with secure boot enabled, hence I saw no reason
to disable it. There was some explanation about 3rd-Party-modules on
that dialog, yes, but because I do not use any other sources other than
those provided by Ubuntu, I didn't feel concerned. Maybe the German
translation is even more misleading (however I do not recall the exact
wording of the dialog on upgrade), because the section in the control
panel is called "Zusätzlich Treiber" and it mentions "Proprietäre
Treiber" in the text in the control panel, but not 3rd Party Software,
what I think was the term used on the upgrade dialog (though I am not
quite sure about that). And since everything worked when I selected the
older Kernel 4.2.0-35 I did not think about this at all any longer :-(
and it took quite a while to figure out the reason of the problem...

If those modules get signed automatically in the future, this will help
a lot... Maybe meanwhile the Dialog on Upgrade could be made a little
bit more clear about the problems and that those using nvidia drivers
will not be able to log in after upgrade?

I uninstalled nvidia, booted with secure boot enabled and installed
nvidia again (using the control panel -> "Zusätzliche Treiber" =
"additional drivers"), but there was no message about secure boot there.
After reboot I couldn't log in again as expected.

For me it is ok now that I know the reason. But I think a lot of people
might run into severe troubles...

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Title:
  Regression: Kernel Update in 16.04 from last days renders nvidia
  driver unusable

Status in shim:
  New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am running Ubuntu 16.04 since at least four months, always with the
  nvidia proprietary drivers (installed from the repository). I used
  nvidia-361 for a while with no issues (and i need it for steam
  gaming). However, an update installed on my machine yesterday breaks
  the nvidia drivers. I tried purging the driver, rebooting and
  reinstalling and i tried a newer version for the ubuntu-drivers ppa.
  Nothing helps: With the nvidia driver installed, i get a low-
  resolution login screen, but cannot login due to missing 3d
  acceleration. Running on nouveau works fine.

  This seems very strange to since everything worked until this
  afternoon. Yesterday, i was happily playing games on steam, installed
  some updates and now, my graphics are broken.


  
  $ lspci | grep NVIDIA
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] (rev a2)
  01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity_support_test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  Date: Mon Apr 25 17:45:12 2016
  DistUpgraded: 2016-03-11 21:34:38,175 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: xenial
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-21-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 5.0.18, 4.4.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 5.0.18, 4.4.0-21-generic, x86_64: installed
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] [10de:1381] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Palit Microsystems Inc. GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] [1569:1381]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-05 (110 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-21-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=ed669b2d-c3af-4570-9eb7-2978557208ae ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  Title: Xorg crash
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-11 (44 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/18/2015
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: P2.30
  dmi.board.name: H97 Performance
  dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP2.30:bd05/18/2015:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnH97Performance:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
  dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
  xserver.bootTime: Mon Apr 25 17:44:29 2016
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
  xserver.video_driver: modeset

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