Cinnamon crashes after updating Nvidia driver to 367.57

[bararan]

There is likely a bug in the latest Nvidia driver update (version 367.57) that caused my Cinnamon to crash at startup. It may be better to avoid it and skip this update.

This evening I accepted an update on my Nvidia driver from version 361.42-0ubuntu2 to 367.57ubuntu0.16.04.1. After rebooting my computer and logging on to Linux mint I got an error saying Cinnamon crashed and the system was in Fallback mode. I tried to restart Cinnamon several times without any success. Only after starting the driver manager and switching from Nvidia driver to Xorg (and restarting my system, obviously) was the error gone and Cinnamon could start and function properly.

[Metal Mick]

Same thing with me.

[wingnux]

Confirmed here and some Steam games have stopped working after the upgrade.

[miclis]

This topic is also discussed here: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=233030

[Caldor]

Problems are not limited to Nvidia 367 driver series too, the 304 series got an update as well that produces a black screen for me, thus no GUI any more to switch off the Nvidia drivers, thus I'm screwed.

Tried the nomodeset suggestion from one of the other threads, but sadly no effect.

[miclis]

Is there any possibility for you to launch cinnamon in fallback mode? Mine launched in this mode automatically, thanks to that I was able to launch synaptics and get rid of the faulty drivers.

[Graemevj]

My driver update was to 304.132 on the same day (probably older machine) and it also gave serious problems.

Everything up to and including the log in screen is fine but after login I get a blank screen with active cursor. The system is running as the cursor changes from arrow to bar as I go over the splash window I have (tkremind) and when I type ctl-alt-backspace I get a flash of the correct desktop before dropping back to the login screen which renders OK. For a temporary fix I have run apt-get remove --purge nvidia* so that I can run on the nouveau display driver and even that occasionally crashes leaving diagonal striped dashes on the screen but I don't know if that was previous behaviour as I have not used that driver.

Thanks for your attention, Graeme

[marlenejo]

Ok I thought I was alone. My older machine running Mint 18, Cinnamon now crash on startup as well. This is new. It's running Nvidia 304.132 (GT-7300) which I think was updated recently (from 304.131?). Reverting to the nouveau driver works.

Eh Houston, you have a serious problem here ????

[phil995511]

I have the same problem on my laptop

[Quexos]

I am running Mint 17.3 Xfce, so this may not be helpful but...

I installed 367.57 and I was able to boot up and run it fine, but there was a new error that flashes by so fast I couldn't see much of it. Copied from another thread, I believe it was this error or very similar: "failed to execute /bin/systemctl stop --no-block nvidia.persistenced.service no such file or directory".

I was not in the mood to fool with it, so I just restored a back up image with version 352.63 installed. In my case the option to install an earlier version is gone now. All I get is 367.57 or nouveau. So if I were to do a clean Mint install, it would mean it is straight up broken with no working Nvidia driver available.

[GSimpson]

I Sorted it through GUI like this
Boot in recovery mode
Open the driver manager
Select earlier driver
Reboot

[SETHANATH]

Hi,

I have the exact same problem. My notebook is Compaq Presario F763NR. MY OS is Linux Mint 18 with Cinnamon.
My video card is Nvidia Geforce 7000M/ nforce 610M.

I have to change from close source nvidia driver to open source one, and the problem with cinnamon fall back mode is gone.

Thanks.

[SETHANATH]

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Hi,

I have the exact same problem. My notebook is Compaq Presario F763NR. MY OS is Linux Mint 18 with Cinnamon.
My video card is Nvidia Geforce 7000M/ nforce 610M.

I have to change from close source nvidia driver to open source one, and the problem with cinnamon fall back mode is gone.

Thanks.

Now, we will need to wait for Nvidia to release the fix for the driver correct?
Or, the Linux Mint developer would provide the fix for us soon?

Thank you.

[Cosmo.]

Or, the Linux Mint developer would provide the fix for us soon?

Note, that the proprietary drivers are not open source. Only NVidia can do anything about that.

All what the Mint developers could do is to set the NVidia driver to level 4 or 5 in the update manager (and of course the users have to accept only level 1 to 3 updates). Until than set the update in the update manager to the ignore list.

[slipstick]

For what it's worth, the 367.57 driver works on my system:

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steve@steve-Z97X ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: steve-Z97X Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.4)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 2.8.8 (Gtk 3.10.8~8+qiana) Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
Machine:   Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z97X-Gaming 3 v: x.x Bios: American Megatrends v: F6h date: 01/29/2015
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i5-4690 (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 28000
           clock speeds: max: 3900 MHz 1: 3818 MHz 2: 3898 MHz 3: 3898 MHz 4: 3899 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
           Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 367.57 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Card-2 Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-3 NVIDIA Device 0fbc driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-45-generic
Network:   Card: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: alx port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (6.6% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 20G used: 8.8G (47%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-2: /home size: 20G used: 4.8G (26%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 17.18GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 0.0:32C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 203 Uptime: 2 days Memory: 1620.6/7820.7MB Init: Upstart runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111) inxi: 2.3.0

and I don't know whether this has any significance at all, but I do have "nomodeset xforcevesa" in my /etc/default/grub file:

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# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT="0"
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT="0"
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET="true"
GRUB_TIMEOUT="10"
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset xforcevesa"

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL="console"

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE="640x480"

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="false"

[clem]

Hi everyone,

Are people impacted using nvidia-prime? bumblebee? Do you remember if you were using the NVIDIA or Intel GPU at the time of the update? Was anything else updated?

Despite having the hardware here (Asus laptop, GTX 850M) I can't reproduce the issue, but I'm suspecting someting in ubuntu-drivers-common. I prepared a deb. You can try it if you're running Mint 18 64-bit:

http://filebin.ca/31C3G2wMipLC/ubuntu-d ... _amd64.deb

If you don't mind trying it out, please reboot after installing it and do let me know if it helps in any way.

I wouldn't mind seeing the results of inxi -Gxx and the content of /var/log/gpu-manager.log from people reporting this issue too.

[Cosmo.]

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Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0416
           Card-2: NVIDIA GK106M [GeForce GTX 760M]
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:11e3
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia,intel
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 760M/PCIe/SSE2
           GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 352.63 Direct Rendering: Yes

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log_file: /var/log/gpu-manager.log
last_boot_file: /var/lib/ubuntu-drivers-common/last_gfx_boot
new_boot_file: /var/lib/ubuntu-drivers-common/last_gfx_boot
grep dmesg status 256
dmesg status 256 == 0? No
Is nvidia loaded? yes
Was nvidia unloaded? no
Is nvidia blacklisted? no
Is fglrx loaded? no
Was fglrx unloaded? no
Is fglrx blacklisted? no
Is intel loaded? yes
Is radeon loaded? no
Is radeon blacklisted? no
Is nouveau loaded? no
Is nouveau blacklisted? yes
Is fglrx kernel module available? no
Is nvidia kernel module available? yes
Vendor/Device Id: 8086:416
BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0"
Is boot vga? yes
Vendor/Device Id: 10de:11e3
BusID "PCI:1@0:0:0"
Is boot vga? no
Skipping "/dev/dri/card1", driven by "nvidia-drm"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "i915"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card1", driven by "nvidia-drm"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "i915"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card1", driven by "nvidia-drm"
Found "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "i915"
output 0:
	eDP connector
Number of connected outputs for /dev/dri/card0: 1
Does it require offloading? yes
last cards number = 2
Has amd? no
Has intel? yes
Has nvidia? yes
How many cards? 2
Has the system changed? No
main_arch_path x86_64-linux-gnu, other_arch_path i386-linux-gnu
Current alternative: /usr/lib/nvidia-340/ld.so.conf
Current core alternative: (null)
Is nvidia enabled? yes
Is fglrx enabled? no
Is mesa enabled? no
Is pxpress enabled? no
Is prime enabled? no
Is nvidia available? yes
Is fglrx available? no
Is fglrx-core available? no
Is mesa available? yes
Is pxpress available? no
Is prime available? yes
Intel IGP detected
Intel hybrid system
Nvidia driver version 340.98 detected
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_version="V1.13"
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name="Aspire V3-772G"
1st try: bbswitch without quirks
Loading bbswitch with "load_state=-1 unload_state=1" parameters
intel_matches: 1, nvidia_matches: 1, intel_set: 1, nvidia_set: 1 x_options_matches: 4
No need to modify xorg.conf. Path: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
No need to change the current bbswitch status

Used prime: yes, which of both cards: not sure
Used bumblebee: no

Additional observation:
When I booted after the installation, the screen got black, before I reached the login screen. Trying to forcibly reboot using REISUB worked only at the second or third attempt; I have never before seen this, in all other cases REISUB worked for me in the past at the first run. The hard drive LED was dark at the time I used REISUB, so hard drive activity was not the culprit for missing reaction at the first attempt.

[SETHANATH]

Hi,

Here are what I have.

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$ inxi -Gxx
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA C67 [GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M]
           bus-ID: 00:12.0 chip-ID: 10de:0533
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x800@59.98hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV67
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 11.2.0 Direct Rendering: Yes

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log_file: /var/log/gpu-manager.log
last_boot_file: /var/lib/ubuntu-drivers-common/last_gfx_boot
new_boot_file: /var/lib/ubuntu-drivers-common/last_gfx_boot
can't access /run/u-d-c-nvidia-was-loaded file
can't access /run/u-d-c-fglrx-was-loaded file
Looking for fglrx modules in /lib/modules/4.4.0-21-generic/updates/dkms
Looking for nvidia modules in /lib/modules/4.4.0-21-generic/updates/dkms
Is nvidia loaded? no
Was nvidia unloaded? no
Is nvidia blacklisted? no
Is fglrx loaded? no
Was fglrx unloaded? no
Is fglrx blacklisted? no
Is intel loaded? no
Is radeon loaded? no
Is radeon blacklisted? no
Is amdgpu loaded? no
Is amdgpu blacklisted? no
Is nouveau loaded? yes
Is nouveau blacklisted? no
Is fglrx kernel module available? no
Is nvidia kernel module available? no
Vendor/Device Id: 10de:533
BusID "PCI:0@0:18:0"
Is boot vga? yes
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "nouveau"
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "nouveau"
Found "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "nouveau"
output 0:
	card0-LVDS-1
Number of connected outputs for /dev/dri/card0: 1
Skipping "/dev/dri/card0", driven by "nouveau"
Does it require offloading? no
last cards number = 1
Has amd? no
Has intel? no
Has nvidia? yes
How many cards? 1
Has the system changed? No
main_arch_path x86_64-linux-gnu, other_arch_path i386-linux-gnu
Current alternative: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf
Current core alternative: (null)
Current egl alternative: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa-egl/ld.so.conf
Is nvidia enabled? no
Is nvidia egl enabled? no
Is fglrx enabled? no
Is mesa enabled? yes
Is mesa egl enabled? yes
Is pxpress enabled? no
Is prime enabled? no
Is prime egl enabled? no
Is nvidia available? no
Is nvidia egl available? no
Is fglrx available? no
Is fglrx-core available? no
Is mesa available? yes
Is mesa egl available? yes
Is pxpress available? no
Is prime available? no
Is prime egl available? no
Single card detected
Kernel Module is not loaded
Nothing to do
No change - nothing to do

Please note that I could not install the file that you gave as I am getting the message "Error: A later version is already installed" from Package Installer. I also need to use Nouveau, so that I won't get the fallback mode.

Thank you.

[clem]

Error: A later version is already installed

Wait.. can you run this and paste the result?

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apt policy ubuntu-drivers-common

Cosmo: Can you try the deb I linked to?

[Cosmo.]

Cosmo: Can you try the deb I linked to?

I don't think so, as I run LM 17.3 (sorry I missed to add this info). From your previous post I understand, that this for Mint 18 only.