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hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

Yesterday I upgraded nvidia and nvidia-utils (nvidia-185.18.31-1 & nvidia-utils-185.18.31-1) and it caused X to fail on next boot. (I've downgraded for now).

In the /var/log/Xorg.0.log it gave an error that told me to go look in the kernel log (If you want the exact message, I'd have to upgrade again and try to boot. Because of the logrotate, I guess.)

this is what I found in /var/log/kernel.log

Aug  1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 185.18.31, but
Aug  1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: this kernel module has the version 185.18.14.  Please
Aug  1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
Aug  1 10:31:26 kasparov kernel: NVRM: components have the same version.

Anyone have any ideas?

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

You should have run, before restarting Xorg:

modprobe -r nvidia

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

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Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

If it fails, recompile nvidia from ABS.

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archnub

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Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 14

Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

Uh oh!

Appreciate the report on this. I was just about to hit "Y" on that keyboard for the upgrade too!

hofa

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 25

Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

You should have run, before restarting Xorg:

modprobe -r nvidia

First, I went to runlevel 3, tried it,  nothing changed.
Second, I rebooted to runlevel 3, tried it again, nothing changed.

If it fails, recompile nvidia from ABS.

Which package do you suggest? (I've got a i686 system going on so the lib32_... won't work I think)

wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

@hofa it would be usefull to post the version of nvidia and nvidia-utils or if you use lib32-nvidia-utils

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arkham

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Registered: 2008-10-26

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Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

Which package do you suggest? (I've got a i686 system going on so the lib32_... won't work I think)

Recompile nvidia and nvidia-utils from ABS, then kill X, remove the nvidia module and reload it.

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drelyn86

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From: Indianapolis, IN

Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 80

Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

X crashed on me when I tried playing a game in Wine after upgrading...
I suppose a "modprobe nvidia" would've been sufficient, but I restarted anyway... haven't had a problem since.

gun26

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Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 55

Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

I ran into this breakage today and simply rebuilding nvidia-utils and nvidia from ABS didn't do the trick. The symptom on my Toshiba Tecra M3 laptop (2005 vintage, Pentium M, Nvidia Geforce Go 6200/6600 video) is that X hangs completely with a blank screen. Nothing works and I have to force an ACPI shutdown by holding down the power button.

I tried various versions of Nvidia and downgrading xorg-server all to no avail until, as a desperation shot, I tried the beta Nvidia drivers 190.18. That seems to have done the trick. Just posting about it here in case there's anyone else in the same boat (i.e. rebuilding the release drivers doesn't work).

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

I found X running at 99% CPU at some point yesterday. No sure if that's related to nvidia upgrade or the X upgrade (or both?)

Last edited by sand_man (2009-08-03 01:44:21)

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ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

My practice with nvidia drivers is to install nvidia-utils first (install, not just makepkg), before makepkg on nvidia. Haven't had problems so far, I recall this fixed some X issues I was having previously. I believe the nvidia driver depends on the right version of nvidia-utils already being there.

That being said, I always compile the nvidia-beta drivers, they're pretty stable (except for that issue couple of weeks back on laptop displays not initializing, but that was fixed very swiftly).

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freeblue

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From: France

Registered: 2009-07-21

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Re: nvidia & nvidia-utils upgrade breaks X

same troubles there........getting crazy to make new nvidia working on my XPS M1710. just doing a simple pacman -Syu as usual since i use archlinux (3month), but this time i get in troubles... and really don't know how to resolve that problem.