Bug#900248: nvidia-driver: update to 390.59 breaks direct rendering

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 21:32 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Looks like the kernel module fails to load:
> 
> No, that is the usual artifact with newer kernels, this is well
> known. I
> am running the latest stable kernels normally, currently 4.16.11
> (actually .12 is out), and that has been the case since the 4.15
> series
> (AFAIR). I downgraded all the nvidia stuff to 390.48-3 and with the
> same
> kernel (and the same error message of the kernel) all works back fine
> as
> normal:
> 
> [   13.240792] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): docker0: link is not ready
> [   13.265609] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-ae45f56a-df50-
> cbc7-737d-a20dd48d7bdd) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
> [   13.409365] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   13.409369] Bad or missing usercopy whitelist? Kernel memory
> exposure attempt detected from SLAB object 'nvidia_stack_cache'
> (offset 11440, size 3)!
> [   13.409375] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1168 at mm/usercopy.c:81
> usercopy_warn+0x7d/0xa0
> ...
> 
> # glxinfo | grep OpenGL
> ...
> OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
> OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.48
> ...
> 
> My suspect is that (from aptitude.log):
> [REMOVE] libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:amd64 390.48-3
> [REMOVE] libgles1-glvnd-nvidia:i386 390.48-3
> two package which seem to be not available or installable in sid at
> the
> moment.
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert

Nah gles1 is deprecated - I don't have it either on my sid+gnome
installation, and yet everything works just fine.

Have you done a selective upgrade by any chance? Are mesa and xorg all
up to date? Is anything pinned?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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