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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mar 20, 2016 22:33, "Andreas Beckmann" <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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

Ah good point, missed the dates.

> Unfortunately nothing from journald:
> (should be investigated!)
>
> > <<<<<<<<<< Xorg (journald) >>>>>>>>>>
> > ^^^^^^^^^^ Xorg (journald) ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> There seem to be no traces from the 340.xx driver left.

Strange that there's no recent Xorg log and nothing in journald.

Michael,

Is that by any chance a headless dev machine, ie. one where you don't run a
graphical Xorg session at all normally?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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