Bug#813312: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia: GDM crashes on start

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: tag -1 moreinfo
Control: severity -1 normal

On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 15:49 +0200, Victor Porton wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
> Version: 340.96-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> With Nouveau Gnome works well.
> 
> After installing xserver-xorg-video-nvidia it is impossible to start GDM.
> At start of GDM I see "Something went wrong" error message and the system
> is frozen.
> 
> My video card:
> GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
> 
> My motherboard:
> Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H67A-UD3H
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia depends on:
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.58
> ii  libc6                                  2.21-7
> pn  libgl1-nvidia-glx                      <none>
> ii  nvidia-alternative                     340.96-4
> ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup               20151021+1
> pn  nvidia-support                         <none>
> ii  xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-19]  2:1.17.3-2
> 
> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia recommends:
> pn  nvidia-driver        <none>
> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms   340.96-4
> pn  nvidia-settings      <none>
> ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver  340.96-4
> 
> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-nvidia suggests:
> ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms  340.96-4

Hi,

The system report says you do not have nvidia-driver installed. Also you
said you just installed that single package. Is that intentional? You
need to install nvidia-driver for the stack to work.

The nvidia-driver meta-package will pull in everything you need,
including the GL libraries.
Please install it and report back.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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