Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

For a couple of days my 14.10 desktop has been broken. It's got an nvidia GeForce GTX 460 and was working up until I got some updates. Now I get a broken display with wrong resolution and no 3d acceleration, so I can't login, making the machine unusable.

Here's my xorg.0.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/8197542/

Possibly related to, or duplicate of bug 1363408

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: nvidia-331 331.89-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-11.16-generic 3.16.1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 31 15:47:23 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-02 (971 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120102)
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331
SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'system-image-cli'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.nvidia.331.hybrid.conf: [deleted]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

please try to reproduce the problem and attach the following files:

1) /var/log/gpu-manager.log

2) the output of dmesg

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

1) http://paste.ubuntu.com/8206986/
2) http://paste.ubuntu.com/8206987/

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I was able to get a tiny bit further by making symbolic links to: nvidia_drv.so and libglx.so, but then it started failing on libglx dependencies... (I'm using xorg-edgers nvidia-343. Don't recommend trying it but maybe it's helpful to find the issue..

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

ubuntu-drivers-common 0.2.98.1 will fix your problem (it's currently in utopic-proposed)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common - 1:0.2.98.1

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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.2.98.1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * gpu-manager.c, gpu-manager.py:
    - Avoid false positives with blacklisted modules (LP: #1363675).
    - Add regression test for the bug.
 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:01:09 +0200

[ScislaC (scislac)]

0.2.98.1 didn't seems to fix it for me on Utopic

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

@ScislaC: please attach the following files:

1) /var/log/gpu-manager.log
2) /var/log/Xorg.0.log
3) the output of dmesg

[ScislaC (scislac)]

Alberto: It appears that something wasn't happy still (modules were built and everything). I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the nvidia packages and all seems fine now. Sorry about the noise.

[Carybielenberg (cary-bielenberg)]

I have attached mine as well Utopic current Kubuntu

[Carybielenberg (cary-bielenberg)]

I have attached mine as well Utopic current Kubuntu

[Carybielenberg (cary-bielenberg)]

I too uninstalled & purged nvidia, & reinstalled the drivers but I still get thrown to black screen.

[Maarten Lankhorst (mlankhorst)]

You're still loading nouveau Cary. Try the following:

sudo update-alternatives --auto x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf
sudo ldconfig
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/gpu-manager

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Carybielenberg: I think you're typing the file contents by hand. I'm going to need the full files. Please install the "pastebinit" package (sudo apt-get install pastebinit) and paste here the links that you get by typing the following commands:

1) grep nvidia /etc/modprobe.d/* | pastebinit
2) lsmod | pastebinit
3) dmesg | pastebinit
4) pastebinit /var/log/gpu-manager.log

[Dolf Schimmel (Freeaqingme) (freeaqingme)]

I do regularly update my system (desktop), but only reboot it once every few months. Yesterday I was forced to reboot, and my uptime of 112 days was gone. Upon reboot I ran into the same issue as this ticket describes. Having had my fair share of X11 issues in the past, this issue was non-trivial to fix, and I only managed to do so with the steps ~mlankhorst provided. Somewhat more novice users surely will be at wits end and will probably feel they need to resort to a complete reinstall, or switch to Windows (again) instead.