OpenGL programs crash with nvidia driver 280.13

[Jussi]

Signal 11 is raised by many previously (at least on 10.04) working programs that use OpenGL.
Crash happens always in /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13 .

I'm on Xubuntu 11.10 64bit.
Kernel 3.0.0-15-generic

Example:

glxgears will crash on startup.

$ gdb glxgears
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3-0ubuntu2) 7.3-2011.08
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/glxgears...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/glxgears
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007ffff6383fe0 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#2 0x00007ffff5ddfa71 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#3 0x00007ffff5f34029 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#4 0x00007ffff5f02479 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#5 0x00007ffff5f0249d in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#6 0x00007ffff5c7742b in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#7 0x00007ffff5c77e45 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#8 0x0000000000401a72 in ?? ()
#9 0x0000000000403176 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007ffff719130d in __libc_start_main (main=0x402aa0, argc=1,
    ubp_av=0x7fffffffe2a8, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>,
    rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe298) at libc-start.c:226
#11 0x00000000004017b9 in ?? ()

nvidia-settings will crash when clicked on "OpenGL/GLX Information"

gdb nvidia-settings
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3-0ubuntu2) 7.3-2011.08
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/nvidia-settings...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7fffec8b4700 (LWP 3239)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe7fff700 (LWP 3240)]
[Thread 0x7fffec8b4700 (LWP 3239) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007fffee13db44 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fffee13db44 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#1 0x00007fffee39c7c8 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#2 0x00007fffedf0cd83 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#3 0x00007fffee3a8060 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#4 0x00007fffedf18b91 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#5 0x00007fffee12bb10 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#6 0x00007fffee10c74d in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
#7 0x00007fffef201561 in ?? () from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
#8 0x00007fffef2071fe in ?? () from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1
#9 0x0000000000415160 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000415ca8 in ?? ()
#11 0x000000000043412b in ?? ()
#12 0x000000000042eb2b in ?? ()
#13 0x00007ffff646e0a4 in g_closure_invoke ()

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

Video card is GeForce 8600 GT.

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[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

Same binaries work in virtual machine with same OS, only difference seems to be video drivers.

[Andrey (abelt)]

Check if /tmp mounted as noexec. Nvidia proprietary drivers do not like that.

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

You are right, /tmp was mounted as noexec and removing it fixes the problem.

However I still think this is bug or at least new unwanted feature.
There shouldn't be any reason for video driver to execute anything from /tmp.

Thanks!

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

Of course crash itself is always bug...