Bug 251763 – >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.80 hangs when X quits

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description subs 2008-12-20 17:03:42 UTC]

I am using 2.6.27-r7 kernel on AMD64. If I update the nvidia drivers to any version >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.80, the system will boot and log into Gnome just fine, but when I logout the machine hard locks, no terminal response at all and must be hard shutdown. If I just restart GDM the same happens so I would guess it is an issue with restarting X. I have a 7950GT. This behavior does not occur with x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update nvidia driver
2. Logout
3. Freeze




emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.6.1 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5200+-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:15:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.0
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64 -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64 -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/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"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/gnome /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib cups curl dbus divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gedit gif gimp git gmedia gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hddtemp howl iconv idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java java6 joystick jpeg jpeg2k lcms libnotify lm_sensors logrotate mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline realmedia reflection samba sdl seamonkey session smp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff totem truetype unicode usb vorbis wavpack wma wmf wmp x264 xcb xine xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 subs 2008-12-20 21:02:40 UTC]

I should mention I have an x86 box with a 7300 GT and the >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.80 do not cause any problems there with the same kernel version. Also, the 177.80 drivers cause the same problem on my AMD64 with 2.6.26 kernels as well.

[Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2008-12-21 03:17:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I should mention I have an x86 box with a 7300 GT and the
> >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.80 do not cause any problems there with the
> same kernel version. Also, the 177.80 drivers cause the same problem on my
> AMD64 with 2.6.26 kernels as well.
> 

There is nothing gentoo can do about this issue. You should file a bug with nvidia as it is hardware specific.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-12-23 06:36:55 UTC]

Please attach the relevant Xorg.?.log to this bug report.

[Comment 4 subs 2008-12-23 06:41:41 UTC]

I can post the Xorg log after the crash, but there is nothing in there, there is no output to the terminal or in the log, it just completely hard freezes. The terminal is unresponsive remotely and the machine must be hard reset. 

[Comment 5 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-12-23 16:02:04 UTC]

Please use nvidia-bug-report.sh from a virtual terminal while X is running and if possible after the error occurs. If it's not possible, save your X log after the issue (i.e. don't immediately overwrite it) and attach the info here and send this to [e-mail]