Bug#803200: nvidia-driver: nvidia-current fails to load with kernels 4.x

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 22:39 +0100, Alberto Fuentes wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> I upgraded from 348 (or so) to latest 352 in experimental. The new nvidia-
> driver in experimental segfaults to me (I have being trying to upgrade for a
> month now (after you uploaded new point versions i check out the changelog and
> try to upgrade again)
> 
> My path of action when everything fails is to purge everything nvidia related
> and install the version from sid... If that fails I purge everything and
> install the versions from testing
> 
> The version from sid was segfaulting to me too and libgl1-mesa-glx hanged in
> the middle of the installation
> 
> With the latest version and sid it seems it does not segfault anymore, but
> fails to load nvidia-current. It fails both with kernel 4.1.0-2-amd64 and
> 4.2.0-1-amd64.
> 
> I was able to boot with 3.10-3-amd64
> 
> I do this by booting with the 3.10-3-amd64 kernel, dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-
> kernel-dkms (which builds both current and latest module) and reboot again with
> 3.10-3-amd64
> 
> Again, this has been happening for a month now (I try again every time you
> upgrade the packages :)
> 
> Ask away if im missing some detail

Hello Alberto,

When you say segfaults, what do you refer to, precisely? The desktop
manager? Xorg? Could you please attach a log and backtrace of the crash?

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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