Bug 212028 – x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.12 xorg fails to start

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vitaliy V. Osypenko 2008-03-01 22:22:02 UTC]

With x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-169.12 xorg fails to start with error:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Vitaliy V. Osypenko 2008-03-01 22:23:43 UTC]

Portage 2.1.4.4 (!//system/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:16:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.5
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.24
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/system/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en cs ru"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/system/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage"
PORTDIR="/system/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/custom-kernels /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/webapps-experimental /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /system/portage-local /system/portage-watzke"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext 64bit 7zip X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups dbus devmap dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss emul-linux-x86 encode evo extensions fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp fuse gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal htmlhandbook iconv ieee1394 ipv6 jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerberos lame libg++ lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse-filters sse2 sse3 ssl svg symlink tcpd threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb utf8 vcd vorbis x264 xcomposite xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en cs ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-03-01 22:24:06 UTC]

Did you run `rmmod nvidia` after upgrading? Won't work otherwise.

[Comment 3 Vitaliy V. Osypenko 2008-03-02 08:43:52 UTC]

Yes, I did. I even tried restarting whole system.

[Comment 4 Vitaliy V. Osypenko 2008-03-02 09:13:25 UTC]

Sorry, I was using other kernel then for compiling nvidia module.