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htfy96

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Registered: 2015-10-22

Posts: 11

gnome-session failed to start on nvidia-387.34-18

Recently I upgraded my nvidia and nvidia-util package to 387.34-18 and 387.34-4. However, gnome-session failed to start after this upgrade and reported:

gnome-session: software acceleration check failed: child process exited with code 1

leaving a "Something is wrong" screen.

Downgrading to 387.34-17/387.34-2 fixed this issue.

Tested platform:
- linux 4.14.12 + nvidia 387.34-18: BUG
- linux 4.14.11 + nvidia 387.34-18: BUG
- linux 4.14.11 + nvidia 387.34-17: OK

I'm not sure is this a bug of nvidia or gnome.

hckrtech

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Registered: 2017-12-15

Posts: 3

Re: gnome-session failed to start on nvidia-387.34-18

Same here. I also tried the LTS kernel, 4.9.75-1 + nvidia 387.34-18 with no luck.

Downgrading nvidia and nvidia-util packages fixed the issue.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,740

Re: gnome-session failed to start on nvidia-387.34-18

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56993

Sviests

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2016-03-24

Posts: 42

Re: gnome-session failed to start on nvidia-387.34-18

Exact same issue for me! Downgrading worked...
Can we hope that this will be fixed any time soon?

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,740

Re: gnome-session failed to start on nvidia-387.34-18

It should be fixed already, do you still get this with nvidia 387.34-18 and  nvidia-utils 387.34-5 ?

Sviests

Member

From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2016-03-24

Posts: 42

Re: gnome-session failed to start on nvidia-387.34-18

Seems to be working now.

Thanks!