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Bug 264365 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29: catastrophic system crash without error message
Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29: catastrophic system crash without error me...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Ricardo Mendoza (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2009-03-31 09:46 UTC by Borna Novak
Modified: 2009-10-29 19:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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lspci -vv (lspci.out,14.32 KB, text/plain)
2009-03-31 09:47 UTC, Borna Novak 		Details
emerge --info (emerge-info.out,3.55 KB, text/plain)
2009-03-31 09:48 UTC, Borna Novak 		Details
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Description Borna Novak 2009-03-31 09:46:27 UTC 
After the installation of the 180.29 version of the driver startx resulted in a black screen and unresponsive system rebootable only through cold rebood. /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log gave no errors at the time of the crash.

Error was replicated on three nearly identical computers running kde 3.5 and kde 4.2 and all of them have the GeForce 9500 GT graphic card. Problem was successfully resolved by downgrading to x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install geforce  9500gt card on amd64 arch
2. update latest portage and emerge -auDNv world
3. reboot and startx

Actual Results:  
Black screen, unresponsive computer rebootable only through cold reboot

Expected Results:  
Starting of X server + kde
Comment 1 Borna Novak 2009-03-31 09:47:39 UTC 
Created attachment 186856 [details]
lspci -vv
Comment 2 Borna Novak 2009-03-31 09:48:00 UTC 
Created attachment 186858 [details]
emerge --info
Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-04-01 22:49:07 UTC 
Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as well as try one of the newer 180.xx series drivers available.
Comment 4 7335520f 2009-07-30 01:28:53 UTC 
I can confirm 180.129 is freezing my system.  I wish it was deleted and 185.18.14 was unmasked, 185.18.14 is working for me on amd64.
Comment 5 Florian Streibelt 2009-08-02 23:17:31 UTC 
is this the same as bug #280031 and #279588 ?
Comment 6 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-29 19:48:43 UTC 
The 180.x series has been replaced by the 185.x series.