Bug#765726: Peeling the Onion

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: tag -1 upstream

On 2014-10-20 01:58, Martin Gallant wrote:
> The reason it appeared I did not restart X after loading the updated
> module is the Xorg.1.log was a stale console from an older unrelated
> XDMCP client session.
> 
> I cannot get the system to create a new Xorg.*.log when X is invoked via gdm3.
> I have no idea why that is - If I invoke X directly, the log file gets created.

that's weird ...

> To move forward, I have purged gdm3 and installed lightdm as a replacement.
> I still have the same startup issues this way, and the log does appear
> in /var/log
> I am enclosing it in the following entry.

That looks all right ... I see no errors and a display is created on the
two connected screen - have you tried to start it with only one display
connected?

Besides that, there is nothing more we can do here with the Debian
packaging - this seems to be an upstream problem.
See here how to proceed:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/522835/linux/if-you-have-a-problem-please-read-this-first/

Andreas