Bug#769960: Possible problem with nvidia drivers ? (Re: gdm3: upgrade from 3.14.0 to 3.14.1 results in blank screen)

Martin-Éric Racine martin-eric.racine at iki.fi
Fri Dec 5 02:58:38 UTC 2014


2014-12-05 3:07 GMT+02:00 Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a problem that looked similar, but was caused by a strange interaction
> with other pacakges (probably xserver-xorg-video-nvidia).
>
> On my side, on two desktop machines, I also had GNOME crashing on start after
> an update to Jessie.  To my surprise this was caused by the presence of NVIDIA
> drivers or something in their dependancy chain, that were freshly installed
> during the updgrade, while the machine's graphic card were either Intel or AMD.
> Purging every package with nvidia in the name solved the problem (but I can not
> exclude that the problem was really solved by the autoremovals that came with
> the purge).
>
> Martin, if you have non-free enabled, maybe it is worth trying to purge the
> non-free nvidia drivers if they are pressent on your machines ?
>
> Have a nice day,

Hey Charles,

Thanks for the heads up.

I just checked to make sure and, indeed, I only have the free Nouveau
driver present on both hosts concerned.

Martin-Éric



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