Bug#735424: Only blank screen after system-upgrade from wheezy to jessie

[Karsten Malcher]

Package: nvidia-driver
Version: 319.76-1
Severity: important

Hello,

again i tried to upgrade from a perfect running installation of Debian wheezy to jessie.
This installation has been upgraded more than one time and in the history there might be the usage of original nvidia 
packages.

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Currently running on wheezy is nvidia version 304.88-1+deb7u1.

lspci shows:
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)

$ dmesg | grep -i nvidia
[    3.940182] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    4.048578] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    4.057144] nvidia 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    4.057316] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  304.88  Wed Mar 27 14:26:46 PDT 2013
[    5.296282] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.1/sound/card1/input7
[    5.296549] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.1/sound/card1/input8
[    5.296760] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.1/sound/card1/input9
[    5.296978] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.1/sound/card1/input10

Is this the driver of the Debian packages or from natively NVida?
How can i determine the difference?

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Now after the upgrade to jessie i have the installed NVidia packages:

ii  glx-alternative-nvidia                0.4.1                          amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as 
GLX provider
rc  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32       304.88-1+deb7u1                amd64        simplifies replacing MESA libGL 
with GPU vendor libraries (32-bit)
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64               319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386                319.76-1                       i386         NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386                319.76-1                       i386         NVIDIA binary OpenGL 32-bit libraries
ii  libnvidia-compiler:amd64              319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA runtime compiler library
ii  libnvidia-ml1:amd64                   319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) 
runtime library
rc  libxvmcnvidia1:amd64                  304.88-1+deb7u1                amd64        NVIDIA binary XvMC library
ii  nvidia-alternative                    319.76-1                       amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as 
GLX provider
ii  nvidia-driver                         319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA metapackage
ii  nvidia-glx                            319.76-1                       amd64        transition to nvidia-driver
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup              20131102+1                     amd64        cleanup after driver installation 
with the nvidia-installer
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                  20131102+1                     amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module 
support files
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms                    319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS 
source
ii  nvidia-opencl-common                  319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL driver
ii  nvidia-opencl-icd:amd64               319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii  nvidia-settings                       319.72-1                       amd64        tool for configuring the NVIDIA 
graphics driver
ii  nvidia-support                        20131102+1                     amd64        NVIDIA binary graphics driver 
support files
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64             319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA vdpau driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia             319.76-1                       amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver


dkms status:

MCS9865, 2.0.0, 3.12-1-amd64, x86_64: installed
MCS9865, 2.0.0, 3.2.0-4-amd64, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 319.76, 3.12-1-amd64, x86_64: installed
serial, 3.2.39: added
vboxhost, 4.2.12, 3.12-1-amd64, x86_64: installed
vboxhost, 4.2.12, 3.2.0-4-amd64, x86_64: installed


I installed the package nvidia-xconfig and generated a new xorg.conf, but i still only get a blank screen.

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In the attached nvidia-installer.log i find

*** /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
*** ls: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 639 2012-06-15 21:39:59.000000000 +0200 /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Fri Jun 15 21:39:55 2012
installer version: 295.59

This is none of the other versions ???


It's really boring to have only a command shell after boot of jessie!
I have no idea what's going wrong and i don't want to install the original NVidia driver package.
Any help to solve the problem maybe helpful to other persons with the same problem also.

Regards
Karsten
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