Bug 296185 – Upgrade to kernel 2.6.31 and nvidia-drivers-185.18.36-r1 causes no screen on X startup

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description David Mulford 2009-12-08 13:35:04 UTC]

After compiling a new kernel, then compiling the new nvidia-drivers, I no longer have a graphical interface.

It is worth noting that after downgrading to gentoo-sources-2.6.31 and nvidia-drivers-180.60, the versions that previously worked well, also no longer work.

I could not find any relevant errors in Xorg.log and switching desktop managers did not work, either.

dmesg reports that everything is fine.

Following the Gentoo X and nvidia guides produced nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile nvidia-drivers
2. Start an X11 session


Actual Results:  
X *seems* to startup, but all that is seen is a blank, black screen.

Expected Results:  
The upgrade should go well, and my graphical interface should start up without incident.

Will get emerge --info once I get home and can get the old laptop out.

[Comment 1 David Mulford 2009-12-09 04:08:46 UTC]

Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================                                  
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 kde modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python qt qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 David Mulford 2009-12-09 04:27:02 UTC]

I am now seeing the following in dmesg (after being logged in via ssh)

[ 1220.732058] X[14054] general protection ip:b744b7de sp:bfb1fdbc error:0 in libc-2.9.so[b7410000+12e000]

[Comment 3 Gerard van Vuuren 2009-12-09 13:23:14 UTC]

Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1            
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:15:02 +0000                                                             
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35                                                                                   
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1                                                                                 
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4                                                                                     
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3                                                                                  
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1                                                                                     
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.3                                                                                     
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2                                                                                    
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1                                                                             
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2                                                      
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                                                   
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages notitles parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 audiofile bash-completion berkdb bidi bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdparanoia cdr clamav cli consolekit cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers cxx dbus dga dts dv dvd dvdr encode exif expat fam fastcgi ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fltk fortran ftp gd geoip gif gimp glut gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb jabber java java5 java6 javascript jbig joystick jpeg kde kpathsea ladspa lame lash lcms ldap libcaca libnotify libsamplerate libwww mad matroska memlimit mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mng modules motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap multilib mysql nas ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl openmp osc pam pcre pdf perl png posix ppds python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline realmedia recode reflection rss scanner sdl server session sharedext sharedmem slang smp sndfile sockets sox spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs sysvipc tcl tcpd theora threads tidy tiff tk tokenizer truetype unicode usb v4l vcd vnc vorbis webkit wmf wxwindows x264 xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xprint xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en nl" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

I experience the exact same problem.
Had to go back to 2.6.30 and 180.60.
Gerard.

[Comment 4 David Mulford 2009-12-10 01:57:27 UTC]

Downgrading yields the same results. Now I'm back at gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r6 and nvidia-drivers-180.60

[Comment 5 David Mulford 2009-12-11 05:22:05 UTC]

The aforementioned kernel and nvidia-drivers upgrades were caused by me performing a world update.

This also happened to upgrade gcc (which I did not notice).

Filing as not a bug as I suspect that I have now have to rebuild the entire system with the new gcc version.