Bug#848149: nvidia-driver: System error (GDM/Gnome) error after installing nvidia-driver and rebooting

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On 2016-12-14 17:33, TheBrokenGod wrote:
> after checking that my graphic card is supported by the proprietary graphic
> driver and installing it through the nvidia-driver package, I am no longer able
> to login. Instead a low-resolution fullscreen dialog saying that something went
> wrong appears.

What was the *exact* error message?

> With LightDM I can login to Xfce but the resolution is still
> very low and the panels are missing. I tried to purge nvidia-driver but that
> didn't work, I had to reinstall the system. I could break the system again and
> provide some log files if useful.

That would be helpful, as well as running

  reportbug -N 848149

in the broken system to collect as much info as possible.

My first guess is that the linux-header package for your kernel was not
installed and therefore the nvidia kernel modules were not built,
causing Xorg to fall back to VESA/VGA.

Wait, you are one stable (jessie)? Did you create an xorg.conf? There is
no automatic Xorg integration in jessie, yet.


Andreas