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

[John Adegbile]

Hi,

Some progress with this. I went to runlevel 3 and removed kmod-nvidia and
dependencies. I then rebooted and re-installed kmod-nvidia and
dependencies. Whilst re-installing, there were some errors displayed whilst
yum was installing kmod-nvidia. The errors were:

Can't read module /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/misc/vmnet.ko Exec
format error
Can't read module /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/misc/vmmon.ko Exec
format error
Can't read module /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/misc/vmblock.ko
Exec format error
Can't read module /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/misc/vmci.ko Exec
format error

I then executed init 5 and then typed in "startx" but I got an error:
Fatal error inserting nvidia /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.
el6.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko No such device.

I then decided to just reboot the machine and I was then able to get to get
into X. I've had a look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and I can't see any errors.
I'm just concerned about those errors that were generated during the
installation of kmod-nvidia.

John


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:46 AM, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com>wrote:

> Many thanks for all all your replies. Apologies for not responding sooner
> - I've been enjoying the bank holiday weekend!
>
> I have included the details requested. For the larger files, I have added
> them as attachments rather than pasting in-line. I hope this is ok?
>
> For the last few lines in Xorg.0.log, there are a few lines which seem
> pertinent to my issue:
> *136.186] Loading extension GLX*
> *[   136.186] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"*
> *[   136.186] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so*
> *[   136.217] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"*
> *[   136.217] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0*
> *[   136.217] Module class: X.Org Video Driver*
> *[   136.255] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module.
> Please check your*
> *[   136.255] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error
> messages.*
> *[   136.255] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"*
> *[   136.255] (II) Unloading nvidia*
> *[   136.255] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error,
> 0)*
> *[   136.255] (EE) No drivers available.*
> *[   136.256] *
> *Fatal server error:*
> *[   136.256] no screens found*
>
> *uname -a*
> 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
>
>
> *rpm -qa | grep nvidia*
> kmod-nvidia-310.44-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-x11-drv-310.44-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>
> *find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko*
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/nvidia/nvidia.ko
>
> *cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
> <attached>
>
> *
> cat /boot/grub/grub.conf*
> <attached>
>
>
> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> <attached>
>
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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