Bug#930802: Fwd: Bug#930802: nvidia-driver: NVIDIA module fails to load (Operation not permitted)

[Ignacio Vargas]

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From: floris <jkfloris at dds.nl>
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#930802: nvidia-driver: NVIDIA module fails to load
(Operation not permitted)
To: Ignacio Vargas <igvacor94 at gmail.com>


Ignacio Vargas schreef op 2019-06-20 23:56:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Version: 418.74-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Today upon boot up, Xorg failed to start. Checking logs I found it was
> not picking up the NVIDIA propietary driver.
> I tried reinstalling the nvidia-driver metapackage and rebooted -
> module still failed to load.
>
> I attempted to load it manually to check the error message, and this
> is what I got:
>
> $ sudo /sbin/modprobe -v nvidia
> install modprobe -i nvidia-current $CMDLINE_OPTS
> insmod /lib/modules/4.19.0-5-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current': Invalid argument
> modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:979 command_do() Error
> running install command for nvidia
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Operation not permitted
>
> I also checked the output of dkms
> $ sudo dkms status
> nvidia-current, 418.74, 4.19.0-5-amd64, x86_64: installed
>
> Similar information appears in the systemctl logs.
>
> Running the modprobe above without sudo gives me a “Key expired”
> message on the nvidia module, which would suggest a
> conflict with Secure Boot, but that is disabled on my BIOS (I’ve
> double checked). I already tried booting on different
> kernel versions (4.19.0-5, 4.19.0-4, 4.19.0-3) and all gave the same
> error.
>
> As it stands, the package seems unusable in its current state. I had
> to revert back to nouveau to get Xorg back up
> for now. It had been working well up until yesterday, but I'm not sure
> how to check aptitude's logs for a list of the
> packages that were updated only yesterday.
>
> Regards,
>

Does
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms
work?


> It had been working well up until yesterday, but I'm not sure
> how to check aptitude's logs for a list of the
> packages that were updated only yesterday.

check
/var/log/apt/history.log

---
Floris


-- 
Ignacio Vargas
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