Consistant system freeze when booting using 2.6.28-13 due to nvidia driver

[John Ottander]

Binary package hint: nvidia-kernel-common

Ubuntu 9.04 i386

After doing the kernel update to 2.6.28-13 the system will freeze consistently during or shortly after the login process. When booting using the 2.6.28-11 kernel the problem does not appear. I have an older nvidia card (Geforce 3 Ti 500) using the ubuntu recommended driver (version 96). I am not using desktop effects.

I've tracked it down to a problem with the nvidia driver after looking at the xorg log file. The end of the file shows the following error message.

[Update: The system will not always freeze when using 2.6.28-13. I am typing this on 2.6.28-13 right now. I think I may just have to live with this due to the old nvidia driver]

(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000c430, 0x0000c3f0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000c430, 0x0000c3f0)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GART.