Bug#804328: glx-alternative-nvidia: GDM3 exits with "Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)"

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-11-11 19:32, Alessio Gaeta wrote:
> I'm quite sure I did not fiddled with nvidia-alternative before the
> system malfunction (I'm quite sure I did not at all ever). I could have
> done it trying to recover the situation, reconfiguring related
> packages. So, I cannot explain what rendered my Xorg server unusable.

I cannot reproduce what caused you to initially lose the nvidia
alternative ...

> That said, is this to be still considered a bug or it is only a problem
> local to my installation? In the latter case, excuse me for the noise
> and feel free to close the bug (or lower the importance: I don't want
> to block the migration to testing without a valid reason).

... but whenever that happens again, someone may lose his glx
alternative setting during an upgrade.

I'm working on making this more rebust and providing a tool to simplify
switching the nvidia and glx alternatives (since there is more to do
than just updating the alternative).
I'm not sure whether this bug is specific to 0.7.0, but without fix it's
not a jessie-backports candidate anyway. There is not much difference
between 0.6.9x and 0.7.0, so quick migration to testing is not important.


Andreas