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I've just installed Kubuntu 17.10 on my PC without problems. It installed fined, booted fine and updated fine. Next stop was activating the privative drivers for my NVidia GTX 1060 using the Drivers panel in the settings. It autoinstalled the drivers seemingly without issue.

Now everytime it boots, there're a couple of issues. After the GRUB, the loading screen with Kubuntu logo appears on screen with a very low resolution and after a couple of seconds the motherboard speaker beeps, just as it does on POST. Several seconds pass and the Plasma loading screen appears, finally revealing the desktop after some more time.

The startup time with the NVidia drivers installed is much longer than with the default drivers (nouveau). I've tried manually installing the latest drivers from the repo (nvidia-390 package), with the same results. I've also tried using the bundled drivers from the NVidia website, and it failed miserably ("Plasma is unable to start as it could not correctly use OpenGL 2", but that's a different issue).

What could be the problem? My motherboard has an integrated Intel graphics card if that's of any help.

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After checking dmesg I saw the halt point in the boot process:

[    3.572204] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eno1: link is not ready
[   28.060038] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s! [nvidia-smi:471]

I searched for that error message and landed on this answer, which suggested adding nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in the grub settings file.

It worked flawlessly!