Bug#883615: Acknowledgement ([CRITICAL] Stretch p-u 9.3 breaks NVidia driver and X.org)

[Julien Aubin]

Raised issue #883705 as it is actually a libc6 regression (it may affect
other apps actually).

I think you can close this one if you wish.

2017-12-06 18:11 GMT+01:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com>:

> Okay found the culprit : libc6
>
> Issue appears with the one from 9.3 but not 9.2
>
> 2017-12-06 11:56 GMT+01:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> Le 6 déc. 2017 11:51, "Luca Boccassi" <bluca at debian.org> a écrit :
>>
>> On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 11:37 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> > On 2017-12-06 10:53, Julien Aubin wrote:
>> > > Okay I will try it. Could you please provide me the build guide and
>> > > install
>> > > guide ?
>> >
>> > From README.source:
>> >
>> > Building "bleeding edge" from SVN for users
>> >
>> >     As new upstream versions of the proprietary driver are released,
>> > upload
>> >     might not happen immediately. This might be for various reasons,
>> > including
>> >     waiting for new binary packages to clear the NEW queue.
>> >     Users wishing to try to build new version locally can follow the
>> >     instructions on the Debian wiki:
>> >
>> >     https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_rele
>> > ases_from_SVN
>> >
>> >     WARNING: these will most likely be work in progress, and the
>> > final upload
>> >     may be different and may not support clean upgrades from/to the
>> > versions
>> >     uploaded in the archive.
>> >
>> >
>> > In your case, it is branches/384-stretch-backports.
>> >
>> > Please let us know about any issues you encounter with these
>> > instructions.
>> >
>> >
>> > Andreas
>>
>> 375.82 has been in sid/buster for months now, it's very strange that it
>> wasn't reported before - a GLX crash is not a subtle problem that might
>> get overlooked
>>
>>
>> Yup but not sure people use a Pascal GPU. What is granted is that the
>> issue appeared after last update to stretch-proposed-updates, but only on
>> my box with a Pascal GPU.
>>
>> I suspect the code paths used are not the same per GPU...
>>
>> If you wish I can send you my sources.list, my /etc and the list of
>> installed packages. I do not have weird things, only additional repos for
>> marginal packages like deb-multimedia or virtualbox.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> Luca Boccassi
>>
>>
>>
>
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