Nvidia crash on kernel upgrade to 2.6.30-10

Bug #391689 reported by NoahY
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Nominated for Karmic by NoahY

Bug Description

Upon upgrading to linux-image-2.6.30-10-generic, I get the following error (output from Xorg.0.log):

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(II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
 "Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" "True"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

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and when I boot the older linux-image-2.6.30-9-generic, there is no problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 24 09:20:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=703824d8-87cb-4a79-bd21-398c581f6672
MachineType: Acer Aspire 6930G
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-10-generic 2.6.30-10.12
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-10-generic root=UUID=a301128a-e5ba-44c8-9b56-6f991b3979b3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:

SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 09/25/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: v0.3204
dmi.board.name: Makalu
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrv0.3204:bd09/25/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire6930G:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer:rnMakalu:rvrNotApplicable:cvnAcer:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 6930G
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

Revision history for this message
NoahY (noahy) wrote :
description: updated
summary: - Nvidia crash on kernel upgrade
+ Nvidia crash on kernel upgrade to 2.6.30-10
Revision history for this message
NoahY (noahy) wrote :

Oops... how do you mark a bug "product of human stupidity?" I uninstalled the headers necessary to add the Nvidia module. Just figured it out, all is back to normal. Please mark this bug invalid.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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