[elrepo] nvidia-setting segfault on CentOS 6.5 x86_64

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 07/06/2014 09:42 AM, Phil Perry wrote:
> Hi Bojan,
> 
> Welcome to the list.
> 
> On 05/07/14 11:56, Bojan Radovic wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I am glad to join the ELRepo mailing list.
>> I use a desktop PC with an nVidia GPU and CentOS-6.5 x86_64.
>> The GPU model is : (output of lspci | grep VGA)
>>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS
>> 290] (rev a1)
>>
>> So I have installed the NVIDIA driver kernel module from ELREPO, like
>> explained here : http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
>>
>> Now the driver seems to work more or less well, but each time I use
>> nvidia-setting utility, after quitting it there is a segfault series of
>> error messages in /var/log/messages :
>>
>> Jul  5 12:47:38 Linux kernel: nvidia-settings[8876]: segfault at
>> 3918201510 ip 0000003918201510 sp 00007fffb1200518 error 14
>> Jul  5 12:47:39 Linux abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2014-07-05-12:47:38-8876'
>> creation detected
>> Jul  5 12:47:39 Linux abrt[8878]: Saved core dump of pid 8876
>> (/usr/bin/nvidia-settings)
>> to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-07-05-12:47:38-8876 (49676288 bytes)
>> Jul  5 12:47:39 Linux abrtd: Package 'nvidia-x11-drv' isn't signed with
>> proper key
>> Jul  5 12:47:39 Linux abrtd: 'post-create' on
>> '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-07-05-12:47:38-8876' exited with 1
>> Jul  5 12:47:39 Linux abrtd: Deleting problem directory
>> '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2014-07-05-12:47:38-8876'
>> Jul  5 12:47:48 Linux kernel: nvidia-settings[8882]: segfault at
>> 3918201510 ip 0000003918201510 sp 00007fff04e7d9d8 error 14
>> Jul  5 12:47:49 Linux abrt[8892]: Not saving repeating crash in
>> '/usr/bin/nvidia-settings'
>>
>>
> 
> I am unable to replicate this issue. Please could you describe exactly
> what you changed in nvidia-settings to trigger the crash. Does it crash
> every time, only if you change something, only if you change a specific
> thing?
> 
>> To install the ELRepo for CentOS-6  I had followed these instructions :
>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
>> so I wonder when I see that the nvidia-x11-drv' isn't signed with proper
>> key
>>
> 
> ABRT is Red Hat's Automatic Bug Reporting Tool. On RHEL, ABRT would be
> expecting the package to be signed by Red Hat but as nvidia-x11-drv
> isn't part of the disto that is not the case.
> 
> I'm not sure why CentOS ship abrt, perhaps they have patched abrt so
> automatic bug reports are sent to them, thus one might assume on CentOS
> abrt expects to see a package signed by the CentOS key.

Yes, ABRT is modified to report to bugs.centos.org.

> 
> Either way, this warning is safe to ignore. What is of more concern is
> the crash itself.
> 

Bojan, please provide basic info, what kernel are you using, is your
system fully updated, whay is exact kmod-nvidia version installed,...


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