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

[Phil Perry]

On 03/05/13 23:44, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On 03/05/13 23:37, John Adegbile wrote:
>> I can do that, but I'm worried if I do that then I'll be back to a
>> system which just hangs and doesn't get to the login screen. The hard
>> disc I am using at the moment is my backup (i.e. pre 310.44-1
>> upgrade). The hard disc which I had upgraded to 310.44-1 does not boot
>> up to a login screen.
>
> Put the "hanging" disk back in and work on that. First thing to try is
> to see if it will come up in runlevel 3 so boot, interrupt the boot
> process when you see the grub "Starting CentOS 2.6.32... in X seconds"
> by pressing Esc. Hit 'e' to edit the current entry, highlight the kernel
> line and hit 'e' again, scroll to the end and append " 3" (without
> quotes), press enter then press 'b' to boot. It should now boot in
> command line mode and you can login.
>
> T
>


Hi John,

I'm Phil, the packager for the NVIDIA packages. Apologies for not 
replying sooner but I've been away on holiday.

I'm unable to replicate your issue. Having just returned from holiday, I 
ran a yum update which installed the latest 6.4 kernel together with 
kmod-nvidia-310.44 and the system rebooted fine.

As Trevor advises above, I would troubleshoot on the hanging disk. Boot 
to run level 3, or if that is not possible try booting from the rescue 
CD/DVD. First I would try uninstalling the nvidia packages and then 
reinstalling them.

Information that may help us/you troubleshoot if required:

uname -a
rpm -qa | grep nvidia
find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Anyway, I can confirm there is no underlying compatibility issue with 
the latest 6.4 kernel and the latest elrepo packages - they are working 
fine here on my test system admittedly albeit with different hardware.

Hope that helps.

Phil