Bug#818763: nvidia-kernel-dkms: fail to load nvidia-uvm (again)

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-03-20 21:06, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> But I noticed something strange that caught my attention in your Xorg
> log:
> 
> [  2634.192] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  340.93  Wed Aug 19 16:23:51 PDT
> 2015
> [  2634.192] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> [  2634.192] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
> [  2634.193] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> [  2634.193] 	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
> [  2634.193] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> [  2634.193] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  340.93  Wed Aug 19 16:01:53
> PDT 2015
> 
> It looks like the older 340.93 library is being loaded? But all the
> symlinks and the package versions in your system indicate that 352.79 is
> installed, any idea why this might be happening?

That's a red herring. Ancient logfiles.

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    21716 Oct 21 20:45 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    21716 Oct 21 20:43 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old

Unfortunately nothing from journald:
(should be investigated!)

> <<<<<<<<<< Xorg (journald) >>>>>>>>>>
> ^^^^^^^^^^ Xorg (journald) ^^^^^^^^^^

There seem to be no traces from the 340.xx driver left.


Andreas