[elrepo] Nvidia GeForce GTX675m - No login screen after upgrading to Centos6.4/kmod-nvidia-310.44

[John Adegbile]

Hi,

I had been using the elrepo 310.32 driver with Centos6.3 with no issues
until after the night of 30th April (the night I updated my system to
Centos6.4). Extract from yum.log:

Apr 30 21:55:32 Installed: kernel-2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64
Apr 30 21:56:59 Updated: kmod-nvidia-310.44-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
Apr 30 21:57:04 Updated: nvidia-x11-drv-310.44-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64

Yum log told me that all was updated successfully. However, the next
morning when I booted up the system, I just never get to the login screen.

I have a strong suspicion that it's the graphics driver that's causing the
issues - or perhaps I'm jumping the gun?

I've had to remove the hard disc and revert to my last good backup disc
which puts me back to Centos6.3 / 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64. I've been
able to mount the hard disc containing the failed Centos 6.4 upgrade but
there's just 2 entries in syslog for the bootup:

May  1 09:00:39 acl-samsung kernel: imklog 5.8.10, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
May  1 09:00:39 acl-samsung rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
swVersion="5

Dmesg and boot.log are both 0 bytes. There is no Xorg.log that matches the
timestamp of the bootup time.

Not sure if anyone else has come across this and if anyone has any tips on
what I can do to troubleshoot/resolve?

Thanks in advance

John
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