Strange firewalld/systemd issue with nvidia drivers

OS: Ubuntu 16.04
nvidia drivers version: 375

There's a strange issue on my system that prevents firewalld from starting at boot if nvidia drivers are installed. firewalld has been enabled with "systemctl enable firewalld", and works fine with nouveau. Once nvidia drivers are installed, firewalld is somehow killed off early in the boot process. Starting firewalld manually still works after the system has booted. I couldn't find any errors in dmesg or /var/log/syslog. Enabling verbose or debugging modes in firewalld also doesn't spit out anything more. It looks like firewalld is just being killed off kind of intentionally. These are some messages from syslog:

Sep 24 04:40:58 plum systemd[1]: Started Braille Device Support.
Sep 24 04:40:58 plum systemd[1]: Stopped firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.
Sep 24 04:40:58 plum systemd[1]: Mounted Mount unit for canonical-livepatch.
Sep 24 04:40:58 plum systemd[1]: Mounted Mount unit for core.
Sep 24 04:40:58 plum systemd[1]: Started udev Coldplug all Devices.
Sep 24 04:40:58 plum systemd[1]: Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen...
Sep 24 04:40:58 plum systemd[1]: Mounted Mount unit for core.
Sep 24 04:40:58 plum qemu-kvm[350]: ...done.