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I recently purchased a Asus TUF FX504GD laptop and want to install Ubuntu onto it.

I have updated the BIOS to the latest version and have disabled both fast boot and secure boot.

There is no dual-boot, this is just a simple Ubuntu only install.

Using a USB stick with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the installer loads properly, it finds both the 128GB NVME drive and the 1TB HDD.

The first time I tried to install, I chose to encrypt the root partition, the install completed and I restarted.

It booted into GRUB recovery. When I used the command ls on the boot partition (hd0,gpt1) it said unknown format. So I was unable to set the root and boot from GRUB.

I restarted the installer, this time without encryption and it resulted in the exact same thing.

Next, I decided to use the Try Ubuntu live distro and it worked perfectly, (except the track pad, I had to use a USB mouse).

So I used the install feature from the desktop. It installed everything, without encryption, and I restarted.

Ubuntu boots correctly and I am greeted with the login screen. I enter the password and nothing happens, it just sits there.

I press Alt+Ctrl+F3 and enter the terminal and I can log in without issue. I did a apt update + dist-upgrade and restarted and it was exactly the same.

After sitting logged in for a few minutes in tty3, lots of messages appeared. The first is as follows.

INFO: task kworker/1:0:17 blocked for more than 120 seconds

"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disable this message.

I understand that this is a new model laptop, but if anyone has any info or help with getting this installation working, please let me know. Otherwise I'm going to have to return it.

I had a partially similar issue. For me the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop installer hangs on boot always. I tried to boot with the server installer, it worked well, so I installed it. But for example rebooting, shutting down the machine was halted at a point, after the console said "Starting Reboot" it stopped with a "Protocol error" message. Also lspci went into an infinite loop, ate up a core on 100% and I got a message after some time that a process is hung for too long. I had to forcefully reboot the laptop to stop that process.

As a solution, which solved my problem is that I'm installed the Nvidia drivers from the ppa repository as described here: How to install the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 18.04

After that and a reboot everything is started to work properly. Now I have to install X manually of course.

I also had problems with this laptop but with Manjaro. I'm going to give you some advises. First you're going to need version 4.17 of the kernel, previous versions don't work. Second you'll need the propietary Nvidia drivers. The installation that I used coupled Intel, Nvidia drivers and bumblebeed. It works great but the trackpad don't work, it may be solved in future kernels. Anyways I don't recommend you to return the computer just because it doesn't work properly right know, this kind of things take time.

Best regards

Bought this laptop today and Ubuntu is working like charm after some initial hickups. It did stuck on the login screen. After which I shifted to tty3 and did a network connection to wifi using nmcli then upgraded the system to 16.04.1 then restarted the system and things are working fine.

I have created a dual boot system with the existing windows and and another ubuntu 18.04 instance on the SSD.

Approach:
* Shrunk the nvm partition that had windows to ~45 GB. Rest I have used for ubuntu.

Will keep on updating this post as I find any bugs/troubles using this system.

Here is the screen shot of the current running version