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Bug 881025

Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-525.53: crash preventing successful boot (kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Randall <ran.dall>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Ionen Wolkens <ionen>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: major CC: jstein, puttabutta, soap
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: journalctl -n 100
emerge --info

Description Randall 2022-11-11 21:12:56 UTC
Upgraded to 525.53 today, but upon reboot, GDM refused to boot. Upon closer inspection, it seems 525.53 was causing significant issues under the hood. 

Rolling back, fixed all issues.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Randall 2022-11-11 21:14:32 UTC
Created attachment 831647 [details]
journalctl -n 100
Comment 2 Randall 2022-11-11 21:25:20 UTC
Created attachment 831649 [details]
emerge --info
Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev 2022-11-11 23:46:25 UTC
Rolling back to what, 520(NFB) or stable 515(production)? I assume 520 but just to be sure.

Haven't experienced issues with 525 myself, albeit I wouldn't mind masking it for now  given it's more experimental than 520.
Comment 4 Randall 2022-11-12 00:11:06 UTC
520
Comment 5 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-11-12 00:20:00 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d24ef7c49d41c9e0f3a49c312950d85db36a501e

commit d24ef7c49d41c9e0f3a49c312950d85db36a501e
Author:     Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-12 00:00:49 +0000
Commit:     Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-11-12 00:18:39 +0000

    profiles: package.mask new nvidia 0/525 branch for now
    
    No issues with my 1070 so far, but I've had a few similar mentions
    about 525.53 that didn't sound like user error. So let's play it
    safe at least until this new branch gets a second version.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/881025
    Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
Comment 6 Lukas Schmelting 2022-11-13 14:13:59 UTC
I don't have any issues with version 525.53 (RTX 2060).
Comment 7 Michael Moon 2022-11-16 08:07:20 UTC
I don't experience this error.

gentoo-kernel-5.19.17, RTX3070

This driver version does sometimes fail to reenable the screen after dpms off because it seems to forget the screen EDID or something (easy to fix over ssh, eg DISPLAY=:0 xrandr; DISPLAY=:0 xrandr --output HDMI-1 --preferred), but it doesn't crash as noted in this bug report.

If others are affected, leave it masked - I'm just here to chip in another data point.
Comment 8 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev 2022-11-28 16:23:08 UTC
Does it still happen with 525.60.11?

Not that I have any intention to mask that one (unless issues are more widespread) given it's a non-beta production branch and a future stable candidate.
Comment 9 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-11-28 16:28:46 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0da25b22a452c68f838dd2694ce941719a023f19

commit 0da25b22a452c68f838dd2694ce941719a023f19
Author:     Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-28 16:26:49 +0000
Commit:     Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-11-28 16:28:04 +0000

    x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: drop 525.53
    
    Masked beta version replaced by 525.60.11, no reason to keep.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/881025
    Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask                              |   7 -
 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/Manifest                |   8 -
 .../nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-525.53.ebuild    | 576 ---------------------
 3 files changed, 591 deletions(-)