Bug#831974: black screen with nvidia driver

[Luca Boccassi]

On 14 September 2016 at 22:12, VA <bugs at indigo.re> wrote:
> So since all this time I have this ugly vesa resolution, nothing has
> worked so far, the recent kernel upgrade didn't solve the problem, and
> there are no updates for the nvidia driver...
>
> However, there's something, I created a new partition and did a fresh
> stable i386 install then upgrade to unstable, to ensure it was not my
> old setup which had a specific problem, but it seems not.
> So on that new install, I still get a black screen. dmesg shows a
> desperate output:
>
> [  100.314324] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver
> for UNIX platforms  361.45.18  Tue Jun 21 17:58:16 PDT 2016
> [  100.315130] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0
> (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
> [  100.709686] nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0
> (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
> [  101.045590] gnome-shell[1019]: segfault at 24448b2c ip b6118b81 sp
> bfded03c error 4 in libc-2.24.so[b60a3000+1b1000]
> [  101.449901] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0
> (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
> [  101.823843] nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0
> (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
> [  102.169960] gnome-shell[1074]: segfault at 24448b2c ip b60e2b81 sp
> bfbd651c error 4 in libc-2.24.so[b606d000+1b1000]
> [  102.546999] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0
> (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
> [  102.936657] nvidia-modeset: Freed GPU:0
> (GPU-5e911e77-bb03-4910-7d0a-8201558cf33b) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
> [  103.259820] gnome-shell[1128]: segfault at 24448b2c ip b614bb81 sp
> bfcb89dc error 4 in libc-2.24.so[b60d6000+1b1000]
>
> And it goes on until I reset the machine.
>
> I had a lead though, I tried another fresh stable install then upgrade
> to unstable, but on amd64 this time, and this time, the nvidia driver
> worked fine.
>
> So it seems to be an architecture problem to solve.

I do not believe this is an issue with the packaging. I would
recommend taking this upstream, in the NVIDIA Linux forum or email
support.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi