[Mageia-dev] Latest update borked my x server

Tue Jan 29 10:15:53 CET 2013

2013/1/29 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 29.1.2013 10:26:
+>
+>> Installed MGA3 Beta2 including proprietary nvidia driver, working nicely.
+>>
+>> After doing updates including kernel 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3 the
+>> startup process stopped and showed a message that a display driver
+>> module is loaded which conflicts with the current setup (translation
+>> from German) and so x server may not start correctly. And so it was:
+>> after "Started LSB: Nameserver information manager" the start process
+>> hangs. Switching to VT2 and logging in, giviong the command 'startx'
+>> fails:
+>>
+>> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current': No such device
+>> modprobe: ERROR: Error running install command for nvidia
+>> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia'; Operation not permitted
+>> (EE) Server termibnated with error (1)
+>> xinit: giving up
+>> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
+>> xinit: server error
+>>
+>> That's it.
+>>
+>
+> Seems nouveau blacklisting is being ignored :/
+> So it blocks the nvidia driver from loading properly
+>
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8863
+
+Yes, bug report describes exactly what's happening here (in better English).
+I added 64-bit platform.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+