Bug#625761: nvidia-kernel-dkms: unusable; oopses on module load

[Adam Borowski]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:20:30AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Still testing with 2.6.32-2-amd64?
> 
> Do you have binutils-gold installed? Which version? Purge it.

Looks like it's it.  With old binutils, no oops.

> > Although, I noticed that mere modprobe does not cause the oops anymore, I
> > need to actually attempt to start X.  Since the latter takes less effort
> > (just trying to boot normally), I did not notice when this changed.  At
> > least with the current kernel in sid (2.6.38-2) the module can be loaded and
> > unloaded without any ill effects.
> 
> Does Xorg.*.log* contain anything helpful after the crash?

I didn't check, would it still be useful now that we know it's something
that happens due to new binutils?

> How usable is the system after the Oops? Console? Ssh? ...

I needed SAK to get keyboard back, after that I could switch to console and
everything not related to X seemed to work fine.  Of course, you shouldn't
trust a system after a crash so I didn't tarry long.


By the way, if you have no idea what the problem with gold could be, there
is no need to add a conflict.  LD = ld.bfd does the same.

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