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

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:09 PM, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Please install the nvidia-detect package from ELRepo and run it :

# yum install nvidia-detect

$ nvidia-detect

.. and show us the output.

Akemi