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kdar

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From: Sweet home Alabama!

Registered: 2009-06-27

Posts: 356

nvidia-settings segmentation fault

I have nvidia 270.41.06-1 installed. And when I try to run nvidia-settings it gives me segmentation fault.

Anyone else experience this problem? I think it started happening to me only on very recent update.

PS. I am using KDE 64-bit

Last edited by kdar (2011-04-21 06:18:48)

aurelieng

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Registered: 2010-02-02

Posts: 104

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

KDE 64bits here, same nvidia driver, nvidia-settings works fine.

kdar

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From: Sweet home Alabama!

Registered: 2009-06-27

Posts: 356

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

strange... I wonder what can be wrong with me. I tried to generate new xorg config file and it still gives me the same problem.

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,546

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

I have the same problem

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=161460

kdar

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From: Sweet home Alabama!

Registered: 2009-06-27

Posts: 356

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

Somehow, I found out, that I had both nvidia-utils and libgl installed. I removed lbgl but I am still getting this error.

Fuzzo

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Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 27

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

I think this might have something to do with oxygen-gtk. I'm using this as my gtk2 theme with Awesome and nvidia-settings continues to segfault.

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[goes to change gtk theme to something uglier]

[chooses Raleigh, the only other installed gtk theme]

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Yep, works now.

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[goes to change gtk theme back to oxygen-gtk]

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Yep, segfaults again. Time to submit some bug reports. Good thing I'm a second semester high school senior, because I wasn't planning to do any homework anyway. Can some others confirm this, especially those on i686?

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shimage

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 17

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

I have this problem too. Running KDE4 with QtCurve. After switching my gtk theme from QtCurve to Raleigh, it stopped segfaulting. I'm on x86_64, like everyone else, though.

Kilzool

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2010-08-04

Posts: 232

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

I am on x86_64 also, XFCE4, and it segfaults on me too, here is the log (found in the kernel.log):

It segfaults only when trying to SAVE TO X CONFIGURATION FILE (xorg.conf) (and does not update xorg.conf)

nvidia-settings[1617]: segfault at 7f32b3a09ae0 ip 00007f32b3a09ae0 sp 00007fffca33e0b8 error 15

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UPDATE: when I delete the ~/.nvidia-settings.rc  file (in all my user's directories, including the root directory)
I can then SAVE the CONFIGURATION (as root).  I just made sure aftewards, to save the new ~/.nvidia-settings.rc
too. (to all my user's directories).

I didn't have to change themes, or anything else.  Just delete the old ~/.nvidia-settings.rc file from each user,
including root, then issue # sudo nvidia-setttings and save the X configurations to file.  It worked.. then
saved the settings to each user's directory (~/.nvidia-settings-rc)

Last edited by Kilzool (2011-05-05 05:39:23)

jfree143dev

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Registered: 2011-04-16

Posts: 6

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

Running x86_64 with oxygen-gtk and oxygen-gtk3-git (from AUR)...also getting segfault when trying to start nvidia-settings.
Odd thing is, it works fine if you run it with gdb.

"gdb nvidia-settings"...then after gdb starts enter command "run"

nvidia-settings will start right up with the oxygen-gtk theme enabled...weird?!

Last edited by jfree143dev (2011-05-05 22:16:55)

alessandro_ufms

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From: Campo Grande, MS - Brazil

Registered: 2008-06-25

Posts: 153

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

It's happening to me too. Running KDE on 64 bits with oxygen-gtk. If I remove ~/.nvidia-setting-rc the application launch, but segfault returns on second launch.

Murky

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Registered: 2011-05-17

Posts: 2

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

I'm having this problem, too. Also KDE and an x86_64 system.

When I run "nvidia-settings --no-config" the program starts and I can make changes and save, but with an existing ".nvidia-settings.rc", I get everytime "segmentation fault".

I've posted a bug-report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24351

Last edited by Murky (2011-05-19 14:41:31)

aeloi

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Registered: 2011-05-21

Posts: 1

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

Switching themes doesn't work for me. I used jfree143dev's method and it worked.

jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

this problem should be fixed with the new drivers, anyway archlinux doesn't care about because we can't patch/fix/do anything about closed source drivers

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secretrobotron

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Registered: 2010-04-11

Posts: 47

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

Have you guys tried "nvidia-settings --no-config" as root?

Just tried it out, and it worked fine. I was having the same problem.

xvzf

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Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 86

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

Pushback...
Same error here, any other solution, I'm running the latest kernel and the latest binary blob

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,808

Re: nvidia-settings segmentation fault

Please go ahead and start a new thread.  This thread was three years old.
Closed. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22

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