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

[Phil Perry]

On 09/05/13 16:56, John Adegbile wrote:
> Think you're right about the vmXXX modules.
>
> Still, it's now hit and miss whether or not I can get into X. If I reboot
> the machine 4 times successively, I'll get to X-Win 2 of those times and
> the other 2 times, my screen just hangs. Not sure why this is...
>
>

My best guess here is that you have other issues - maybe some form of 
corruption occurring.

The errors with the VMware modules is simply highlighted when installing 
any kmod package due to the scripts that are run, so any module errors 
will get flagged up. The errors are not necessarily related to the kmod 
you have just installed/updated (nvidia in this case), this process 
merely highlights the errors. There is a dummy testing kmod package 
called kmod-hellop in the elrepo-testing repository. I bet if you 
install and uninstall that package you will see the same errors flagged up.

I would try verifying and/or reinstalling those VMware modules.

I would also try running some memory and/or disk based diagnostic checks 
on your system. Have you noticed any other strange / unexplained 
behaviour lately?

Regards,

Phil

PS - a full reboot is always advisable after installing / updating the 
nvidia package.


> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:43 AM, John Adegbile <johnadegbile at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> I suppose those vmXX modules are from VMware.
>>
>> Akemi
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