Bug#922497: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff9b30a7cb488

[Allan Wind]

Thanks Andreas.

I doubt NVIDIA will spend any cycles on troubleshooting issues 
with an older driver.

About a year ago I reported #905309 to the forum that NVIDIA says 
is the official support channel for Linux driver issues.  I never 
heard back.

The main reason why I filed the bug report was to document the 
workaround should anyone else hit this.  It is highly unusual
for a stable upgrade to cause an issue of this magnitude.


/Allan

On 2019-02-22 00:39:36, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>Control: tag -1 upstream
>
>On 2019-02-17 07:40, Allan Wind wrote:
>> The stable release 9.8 contained an upgrade of nvidia-drivers from
>> 384.130-1 to 390.87-8~deb9u1 which caused my system hang during
>> subsequent boots.  The release also contains a linux-image update, and I
>> installed a known working kernel (4.9.0-5) and it too failed to boot
>> with 390.87-8~deb9u1. Then I upgraded nividia-driver to the version in
>> unstable, and I was able to boot my system.  Unfortunately, this is the
>> version information being picked up in this bug report.
>
>There haven't been similar reports with the 390.xx driver from
>stretch-backports or with the 390.xx driver in sid (with newer kernels
>than 4.9) - maybe it is specific to your card. Or some other hardware.
>
>There is nothing we can do about bugs in the proprietary driver. And I
>expect you don't want to try reporting this upstream - since you have a
>working configuration now, and getting useful information if the system
>fails to boot is difficult.
>
>
>Andreas

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