Nvidia Driver issues

[rushlight]

The proprietary driver provided by Nvidia absolutely bricks the X server on 14.4 x64. i've had to re-install to fix the issue.

ive been running into x-server problems even with the Nvidia driver provided in ubuntu updates, and the latest unity update causes X to randomly crash sometimes. i have to exit though Ctl Alt F1 and restart it. i believe it's still related to the Nvidia driver though. (as seen in the error report)

I suggest ubuntu staff notify users to avoid using provided Nvidia packages from the nvidia site: they seem to be responsible for some of the login-loop issues. (which is an Xserver issue, not Lightdm like others say) some of the ubuntu-dist nvidia packages might be doing it too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-60.80~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt22
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-60-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 352.63 Sat Nov 7 21:25:42 PST 2015
 GCC version: gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04)
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 6 09:36:28 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 bbswitch, 0.7, 3.16.0-60-generic, x86_64: installed
 nvidia-352-updates, 352.63, 3.16.0-60-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:05fc]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:05fc]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 7737
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-60-generic root=UUID=09710e73-8ec1-49c7-b7b5-588c54c5ee92 ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/04/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A13
dmi.board.name: 0H9X60
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA13:bd06/04/2015:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron7737:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0H9X60:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 7737
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
xserver.bootTime: Sat Feb 6 09:32:55 2016
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 5920
 vendor CMO
xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2~trusty2

[penalvch (penalvch)]

rushlight, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

To see if this is already resolved, could you please test for this via http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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