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#1 2010-10-15 15:09:53

stiffy420
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Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

I recently installed arch64 with nvidia & nvidia-utils. but i get this error upon installation.

/tmp/alpm_xD1nv6/.INSTALL: line 1:  4640 Segmentation fault      depmod $KERNEL_VERSION
error: command failed to execute correctly


i didnt have any problem with those drivers in 32bit version.

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#2 2010-10-15 20:44:41

jt512
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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

I don't know if this will solve your problem, or not, but there is currently some incompatibility between certain nvidia drivers and Xorg-1.9. If you're using nvidia-256, you may have to use the nvidia-beta driver instead, and to get that to load, you may need to blacklist the ahci module in the modules array in your rc.conf.  Other nvidia drivers have other problems.  Search the forums; there are several relevant threads.

Jay

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#3 2010-10-15 23:52:55

stiffy420
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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

I tried the nvidia-beta driver but i get a similiar error. Didnt have any problem at all ith arch32bit. maybe i should go back?

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#4 2010-10-16 02:39:34

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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

The error isn't in nvidia, its in your kernel and something in the toolchain. Try reinstalling module-init-tools (which contains depmod) and related packages.


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#5 2010-10-16 12:25:58

stiffy420
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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

Ok, i tried installing module-init-tools. that worked fine. but i still get the same error when trying to install nvidia drivers. and when i try the command depmod -a i get "segmentation fault"

im totally lost. any other tips?

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#6 2010-10-17 14:43:21

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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

depmod or something it depends on is corrupted. Exactly what, I'm not sure. Try working your way back the dependency trail.


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#7 2010-10-17 19:52:10

stiffy420
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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

Sorry for being e noob. but what exactly do you mean with "working my way back the dependency trail"

Shall i go through the "beginners guide" step by step again?

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#8 2010-10-17 23:06:08

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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

Ah sorry, I forgot what subforum this was.

When you run

pacman -Qi module-init-tools

it shows you information on which packages require module-init-tools (kernel26, mkinitcpio etc.) and what packages it depends on (glibc). Try reinstalling glibc. If that doesn't help, find out what glibc depends on and reinstall that.

The better way to handle things would be if you had some sort of clue what package broke this, but it would seem you've never had this working properly in any case, so you have to do it the hard way.

Oh, and the CLI output of depmod (with whatever verbosity is available) may help.


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#9 2010-10-18 00:16:01

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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

If it is segfaulting, you can also try to get a trace with gdb, its pretty simple really: Install gdb, run "gdb depmod", type "run" at the prompt, and obtain the trace with "bt".

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#10 2010-10-19 09:55:42

stiffy420
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Re: Arch64 & Nvidia drivers

I think i have a hardware error.

i tried win7 32&64bit, winxp 32&64bit, windows vista 32&64bit, Ubuntu 32&64bit and the installation fails.

Now when i tried a clean install of arch 64bit it fails. but the 32bit version works everytime. very weird.

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