nvidia issues after update to U5
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:24 pm
I ran into an odd problem while updating, and not sure if it was my fault or perhaps the update process.
After doing the update, what happened was the nvidia drivers for my card failed to work correctly. I suspect that what happened was the update was done in two stages, and my impatience might have caused the issue. Anyway, I will describe what I saw and what I did to correct it.
First, when the update hit my machine, it appeared to me that the Update Manager GUI was not working correctly, so I killed it and opened up a terminal (I'm more comfortable working in a terminal anyway). I did the following:
I downloaded and upgraded around 1008 packages. During the update, I was prompted about differences between configuration files, which I can understand and seem normal. Once the upgrade was complete, I did a reboot, thinking that a bunch of major packages just got upgraded, and some stuff probably needed to be re-started.
When my system came up, I was greeted with the ! icon from the Update Manager indicating that there were updates available. I opened it up, and sure enough it listed around 600+ more packages that needed to be upgraded. I went ahead and chose to install the updates, and went about my merry way. When it was done, I went ahead and did a reboot (old Windows habit) and low-and-behold, the X server would not start. I ran the following and tried to reboot again.
The X server still would not start! I don't remember the exact error in the X server log, but I did note that it was looking for an older nvidia driver that had supposedly been updated. Sure enough I did
and it listed pacages for versions 295.20-1 and 302.17-2. What I ended up doing was copying all of the 302.17-2 packages to root's home folder
I then became the root user. HUGE WARNING! DO NOT do this unless you know what you are doing!
I then re-installed all of the packages using this command.
After a re-boot, everything is working as it should.
Again, this may have been my mistake and my fault, but I thought that others may possibly learn from this and maybe be able to correct any problems that they might have. I suspect that what happened was the updated nvidia packages got installed prior to the newer kernel packages being installed.
After doing the update, what happened was the nvidia drivers for my card failed to work correctly. I suspect that what happened was the update was done in two stages, and my impatience might have caused the issue. Anyway, I will describe what I saw and what I did to correct it.
First, when the update hit my machine, it appeared to me that the Update Manager GUI was not working correctly, so I killed it and opened up a terminal (I'm more comfortable working in a terminal anyway). I did the following:
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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
When my system came up, I was greeted with the ! icon from the Update Manager indicating that there were updates available. I opened it up, and sure enough it listed around 600+ more packages that needed to be upgraded. I went ahead and chose to install the updates, and went about my merry way. When it was done, I went ahead and did a reboot (old Windows habit) and low-and-behold, the X server would not start. I ran the following and tried to reboot again.
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sudo nvidia-xconfig
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ls /var/cache/apt/archives/nvid*
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sudo cp -v /var/cache/apt/archives/nvid*302* /root/
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sudo su -
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dpkg -i *.deb
Again, this may have been my mistake and my fault, but I thought that others may possibly learn from this and maybe be able to correct any problems that they might have. I suspect that what happened was the updated nvidia packages got installed prior to the newer kernel packages being installed.