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nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 package

  1. Bug #1516216
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1516216

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Mail-fabian-keller (mail-fabian-keller) wrote : Re: X fails to start, starting with kernel version 3.13.0-66 including 3.13.0-68

Just to confirm: The problem still exists with the newly released 352.63 version. I still get a black screen with this error:

Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.366837] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.367022] IP: [<ffffffff8172a96b>] __down_common+0x4c/0x144

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Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.373666] Call Trace:
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.373757] [<ffffffff8172aa80>] __down+0x1d/0x1f
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.373846] [<ffffffff810b0f71>] down+0x41/0x50
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.373995] [<ffffffffa073d2e7>] nvidia_open+0x387/0x960 [nvidia]
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374120] [<ffffffffa073c0c9>] nvidia_frontend_open+0x49/0xa0 [nvidia]
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374217] [<ffffffff811c2d4f>] chrdev_open+0x9f/0x1d0
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374313] [<ffffffff811bb883>] do_dentry_open+0x233/0x2e0
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374404] [<ffffffff811c2cb0>] ? cdev_put+0x30/0x30
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374497] [<ffffffff811bbbb9>] vfs_open+0x49/0x50
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374590] [<ffffffff811cacf1>] do_last+0x541/0x1230
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374690] [<ffffffff813161bb>] ? apparmor_file_alloc_security+0x5b/0x180
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374783] [<ffffffff811cdd0b>] path_openat+0xbb/0x670
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374875] [<ffffffff811cf12a>] do_filp_open+0x3a/0x90
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.374967] [<ffffffff811dbfd7>] ? __alloc_fd+0xa7/0x130
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.375060] [<ffffffff811bd6d9>] do_sys_open+0x129/0x280
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.375153] [<ffffffff811bd84e>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
Nov 21 18:23:51 fabuntu kernel: [ 1.375246] [<ffffffff81734cdd>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f