Nvidia driver hangs on boot: NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1170)

[Jacob Nielsen]

A fresh install of Saucy/amd64 from either the final beta or today's daily build fails to boot after installing the proprietary nvidia driver. A parallel install of the same daily build, only x86, is not affected.

My graphics card (Zotac GT430 (GF108 chip)) is apparently not supported by nouveau, and not recognized as such, so I must add nomodeset in order to boot the live cd and install. In both cases the proprietary driver was installed from System Settings / Software & Updates / Additional Drivers after the first boot. I then removed "nomodeset" from /etc/default/grub, did update-grub -u -k all and rebooted.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nvidia-319 319.32-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 13 15:26:42 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131013)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-319
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Is the nvidia driver failing to build? Is it complete in /var/lib/dkms/... ?
The attachment in comment #1 does not show any nvidia driver installed. So please look for logs in:
    /var/lib/dkms/nvidia* ...
and attach them here.

If it is installed, please confirm with "dpkg -l | grep nvidia" and also try to get some kind of log from the failed kernel boot. Or even photos.

[Jacob Nielsen (j.nielsen)]

Log file from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-319/kernel-3.11.0-12-generic-x86_64/log. I'll try to get info from the failed boot later today.

[Jacob Nielsen (j.nielsen)]

# dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-319 319.32-0ubuntu7 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings-319 319.32-0ubuntu3 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

OK, make.log seems to show a successful build.

kern.log seems to show an error happening on boot:
Oct 14 20:05:53 saucy64-test kernel: [ 14.816378] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1170)
Oct 14 20:05:53 saucy64-test kernel: [ 14.816390] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed

And that probably explains why Xorg.0.log couldn't find any screens.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aivis (raziel9)]

Seems like this is very specific problem. Only PCLinuxOS could avoid this problem in LiveCD mode(install on disk failed too), everything else just failed. Also tried to modprobe different nvidia drivers from repos manually.

Today I have swapped motherboard with AMD 690(with onboard integrated VGA) to NVIDIA nForce 560 chipset and CPU amd athlon x2 4000+ to 5600+, and the problem was gone.

[Jacob Nielsen (j.nielsen)]

Tried a Trusty daily build from today. Both the available drivers (304 and 331) work correctly.