Bug#848149: nvidia-driver: Reportbug output on broken system

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-12-18 10:36, TheBrokenGod wrote:
> I installed the driver following the guide at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_8_.22Jessie.22 and created the Xorg configuration file through 'apt-get install nvidia-xconfig'.

Did you run nvidia-xconfig? Just installing the package isn't enough.
The bug-script ran by reportbug didn't find any Xorg config file.
And using the 4-line manually created one from the wiki page should
usually be sufficient.

> The error dialog showing after boot simply says "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again".
> Please tell me what log or configuration files do you need.

The gdm logfile would be nice as well as the xorg ones. Since the
reportbug script didn't find the xorg logfiles in /var/log, you may
retrieve them from journald with
  journalctl -b _COMM=Xorg --no-pager


Andreas