Ubutu Settings crash X11 session when using nouveau driver

I have installed the nouveau driver as the latest nvidia driver was not working in my system (blank screen after reboot). The X11 session is starting up fine, but whenever I open the Ubuntu settings the X11 session is killed, the system goes back to the logon screen and all processes are lost.

The following can be seen in the kern.log when this happens:

Oct 25 11:42:46 galaxy kernel: [ 1419.494632] nouveau 0000:2d:00.0: disp: chid 73 stat 90001080 reason 1 [PUSHBUFFER_ERR] mthd 0200 data badf5040 code badf5040
Oct 25 11:42:46 galaxy kernel: [ 1419.494665] nouveau 0000:2d:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 611390 [ IBUS ]

Doing a Google Search for the problem I have found the following report which shows similar behaviour:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1284208/gui-crashes-when-try-to-open-system-settings

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.6.0-1032.33-oem 5.6.19
Uname: Linux 5.6.0-1032-oem x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.10
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 25 12:01:54 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation TU104 [GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER] [10de:1e84] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] TU104 [GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER] [1462:3860]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-05 (172 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
MachineType: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7C37
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-1032-oem root=UUID=feee9100-ba4d-481e-9ad3-60fcc44737e6 ro
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/07/2020
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A.A0
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MPG X570 GAMING PLUS (MS-7C37)
dmi.board.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: 2.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.version: 2.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrA.A0:bd09/07/2020:svnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:pnMS-7C37:pvr2.0:rvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:rnMPGX570GAMINGPLUS(MS-7C37):rvr2.0:cvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr2.0:
dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: MS-7C37
dmi.product.sku: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: 2.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.101-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~20.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2.4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1