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Bug 492900 - x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20 destabilized whole system.
Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20 destabilized whole system.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 487548
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2013-11-29 21:52 UTC by Dmitry
Modified: 2013-11-30 13:47 UTC (History)
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emerge --info (emerge-info.txt,5.72 KB, text/plain)
2013-11-29 21:52 UTC, Dmitry
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Description Dmitry 2013-11-29 21:52:45 UTC
Created attachment 364226 [details]
emerge --info

After installing of latest stable nvidia drivers I started to see some weird behavior on my whole system, such as:
-bash, started in gnome-terminal, can't quit, it just hangs forever.
-gnome-system-monitor, started by multiload-applet (from gnome-panel) can't determine my system release (it print '???' there) and in a same time I can see 'lsb_release' precess in state of zombie. gnome-system-monitor started from any other place works fine...
-'screen' processes also can't finish normally and hangs at phrase [screen is terminating]. After hanging they are also becomes a zombie.
-some of other KDE processes are also becomes a zombie and hangs.

First I cleaned up my whole $HOME directory, then I make 'emerge -e gnome', but in also does not helped. And finally I restored my October system backup, and it helped. But after upgrading firefox, virtualbox and nvidia-drivers and after reboot I figured out, that bug returned.

Downgrading to nvidia-drivers-325.15 fixed the problem.

media-video/nvidia-settings-319.60
sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r3
Kernel 3.10.7-gentoo-r1

AMD64
GeForce GTX 760

My system packages are stable and up to date.

Looks like I'm not the only user that faced with that problem:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/633706/recent-drivers-cause-applications-to-hang-not-start-at-all-or-compilation-failures/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1352988
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-11-30 13:47:00 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 487548 ***