I’m running Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS on the following hardware -
Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 8000 Elite SFF PC
Nvidia Quadro NVS 290
8 GB RAM
After initial install and updates, I got a blank screen with a cursor every time I booted. I even tried building the driver from Nvidia, but it did not compile (missing stdarg.h header file). The only way I could see a screen was to boot in recovery mode and continue from there. When doing this, everything worked.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/build
sudo apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver
sudo nano /etc/environment
and adding the following line of code to it:
GSK_RENDERER=cairo
My session is hanging, so I’m going to post and then continue…
[Continuing - looks like I have another issue with Firefox - huge typing delays from keyboard to window, many timeouts in syslog, had to restart Firefox.]
There are a lot of errors in syslog, not sure how much or if other logs…please let me know.
Anyway, here are 2 tests I ran:
/etc/environment
#GSK_RENDERER=cairo
2025-05-23T19:59:37.126108-07:00 mikeys-desktop systemd[1687]: Started snap.snap-store.snap-store-6c0da3e0-ff2c-4056-a747-13bf6aad22ba.scope.
2025-05-23T19:59:37.232547-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2920]: Not loading module "atk-bridge": The functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it.
2025-05-23T19:59:37.370557-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2920]: GTK+ module /snap/snap-store/1270/gnome-platform/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so cannot be loaded.#012GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported.
2025-05-23T19:59:37.370760-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2920]: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
2025-05-23T19:59:37.370984-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2920]: GTK+ module /snap/snap-store/1270/gnome-platform/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so cannot be loaded.#012GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported.
2025-05-23T19:59:37.371086-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2920]: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
2025-05-23T19:59:37.505725-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: audit: type=1326 audit(1748055577.503:172): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=3 subj=snap.snap-store.snap-store pid=2920 comm="snap-store" exe="/snap/snap-store/1270/bin/snap-store" sig=0 arch=c000003e syscall=203 compat=0 ip=0x7100ca0fa531 code=0x50000
2025-05-23T19:59:37.505837-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: audit: type=1326 audit(1748055577.503:173): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=3 subj=snap.snap-store.snap-store pid=2920 comm="snap-store" exe="/snap/snap-store/1270/bin/snap-store" sig=0 arch=c000003e syscall=141 compat=0 ip=0x7100ca17978b code=0x50000
2025-05-23T19:59:37.591725-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1748055577.590:174): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" class="file" profile="snap.snap-store.snap-store" name="/proc/sys/vm/max_map_count" pid=2920 comm="snap-store" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
2025-05-23T19:59:37.747962-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2920]: The program 'snap-store' received an X Window System error.#012This probably reflects a bug in the program.#012The error was 'BadValue'.#012 (Details: serial 577 error_code 2 request_code 154 (GLX) minor_code 22)#012 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;#012 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.#012 To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment#012 variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful#012 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
2025-05-23T19:59:37.749739-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: traps: snap-store[2920] trap int3 ip:7100ca6d863f sp:7ffcd3ff51e0 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.7800.1[6e63f,7100ca688000+ae000]
/etc/environment
GSK_RENDERER=cairo
2025-05-23T20:08:31.880856-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2798]: GTK+ module /snap/snap-store/1270/gnome-platform/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so cannot be loaded.#012GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported.
2025-05-23T20:08:31.881002-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2798]: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
2025-05-23T20:08:31.882315-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2798]: GTK+ module /snap/snap-store/1270/gnome-platform/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so cannot be loaded.#012GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported.
2025-05-23T20:08:31.882405-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2798]: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
2025-05-23T20:08:32.001101-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: audit: type=1326 audit(1748056111.998:169): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4 subj=snap.snap-store.snap-store pid=2798 comm="snap-store" exe="/snap/snap-store/1270/bin/snap-store" sig=0 arch=c000003e syscall=203 compat=0 ip=0x7fb1efde4531 code=0x50000
2025-05-23T20:08:32.001124-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: audit: type=1326 audit(1748056111.998:170): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4 subj=snap.snap-store.snap-store pid=2798 comm="snap-store" exe="/snap/snap-store/1270/bin/snap-store" sig=0 arch=c000003e syscall=141 compat=0 ip=0x7fb1efe6378b code=0x50000
2025-05-23T20:08:32.384107-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1748056112.382:171): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" class="file" profile="snap.snap-store.snap-store" name="/proc/sys/vm/max_map_count" pid=2798 comm="snap-store" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
2025-05-23T20:08:32.703562-07:00 mikeys-desktop snap-store[2798]: The program 'snap-store' received an X Window System error.#012This probably reflects a bug in the program.#012The error was 'BadValue'.#012 (Details: serial 576 error_code 2 request_code 154 (GLX) minor_code 22)#012 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;#012 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.#012 To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment#012 variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful#012 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
2025-05-23T20:08:32.704098-07:00 mikeys-desktop kernel: traps: snap-store[2798] trap int3 ip:7fb1f03c263f sp:7fff67fce730 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.7800.1[6e63f,7fb1f0372000+ae000]
2025-05-23T20:08:32.903637-07:00 mikeys-desktop systemd[1701]: snap.snap-store.snap-store-74360dd4-f4d8-48c7-a706-e4b5648193ba.scope: Consumed 1.089s CPU time
I’ve uninstalled all the nvidia ppa code so I can now boot in recovery mode and run the App Center code.
From what I’m seeing, I should probably give up since I have an unsupported Nvidia NVS 290 - I’ve read that many have had trouble with this running 24.04.2.
I’m wondering if I could just upgrade my graphics card to something compatible that is supported. Any idea what that might be?
I have no idea if it is caused by the same problem, but I just installed Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS yesterday. This is my first time trying Ubuntu and I was just switching from having tried Fedora for a few days, so I’m really a beginner with Linux in general. When I was running Fedora, the App Store they installed worked fine. With this new Ubuntu install, the App Center icon is on my taskbar, but when I click it, nothing really happens. It flashes like it is trying to open, there is a little orange dot next to the icon to indicate a session open, then the dot disappears and nothing else happens. It seems like the App Center is broken right out of the box, but I haven’t yet found any discussions regarding it aside from yours. I am running an Acer 5733 with 8Gb Ram and an Intel Core™ i3 M 370 × 4 processor.
I do know that the Ubuntu install had some hiccups due to doing an update to the installer media to the degree that I had to redo the installation because the first time went off the rails. I have no idea if it’s the same problem or even related, but I just wanted to mention that it isn’t working for me either.
Well, I gave up and bought a used GeForce GT 710 off eBay for $40. Works perfectly! I booted in recovery mode, opened up Software Updates, and there were 3 drivers to chose from for the GT 710. I went with the default public source option and everything is working great for the past several days!