Bug#805554: [nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver] X fails to start

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Mon Dec 14 14:43:37 UTC 2015


On 2015-11-19 14:15, Fenix wrote:
> I see in journalctl (I don't know why Reportbug shows here the
> Xorg.x.logs files. Byt I leave them in case they help) this:
> 
> ______________
> NVIDIA: Could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or
> directory)
> ______________
> 
> After that message, the log inform of the failed to initialize the
> nvidia kernel module.

You could extract Xorg.log from the journal and attach it to this bug ...

You have libraries from ancient driver versions still installed, delete
them:

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       22 Apr 14  2011 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 ->
> libGLcore.so.195.36.31
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23090400 Jun  2  2010
> /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.195.36.31
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       26 Jul 20  2011 /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.1
> -> libnvidia-cfg.so.195.36.31
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   119208 Apr 22  2010
> /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.195.36.24
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   119208 Jun  2  2010
> /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.195.36.31
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       26 Apr 14  2011 /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1
> -> libnvidia-tls.so.195.36.31
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     4708 Apr 22  2010
> /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.195.36.24
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     4708 Jun  2  2010
> /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.195.36.31


Andreas



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