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I recently upgraded from Scientific linux 6.1:</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">the NVidia driver</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">kmod-nvidia-290.10-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">with kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64</span></div>
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to Scientific linux 6.3:<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">with NVidia driver</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">kmod-nvidia-295.71-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">nvidia-x11-drv-295.71-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">with vmlinuz-2.6.32-279.1.1.el6.x86_64.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">When I login to my gui (GNOME gdm) it will hang and freeze. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following is recorded:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">.....</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 353</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 242.340] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:22 2012: 4412: client 28 connected from local host ( uid=504 gid=504 pid=4827 )</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 353</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 242.341] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:22 2012: 4412: client 29 connected from local host ( uid=504 gid=504 pid=4821 )</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 353</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 242.342] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:22 2012: 4412: client 30 connected from local host ( uid=504 gid=504 pid=4825 )</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 353</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 242.910] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:23 2012: 4412: client 31 connected from local host ( uid=504 gid=504 pid=4609 )</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 353</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 242.910] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:23 2012: 4412: client 31 disconnected</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 246.341] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:26 2012: 4412: client 23 connected from local host ( uid=504 gid=504 pid=4839 )</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 353</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 246.546] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:27 2012: 4412: client 32 connected from local host ( uid=504 gid=504 pid=4860 )</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 353</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 246.581] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:27 2012: 4412: client 32 disconnected</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 272.109] AUDIT: Fri Aug 10 15:33:52 2012: 4412: client 14 disconnected</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 284.555] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000c870, 0x0000d274)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.635] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.635] </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Backtrace:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x467998]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (mieqEnqueue+0x1f4) [0x45c2e4]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 2: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostMotionEventM+0x97) [0x46e577]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 3: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86PostMotionEventP+0x4f) [0x46e67f]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f63ea0e3000+0x5454) [0x7f63ea0e8454]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x80bc7) [0x480bc7]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x122893) [0x522893]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 7: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3f80a00000+0xf500) [0x3f80a0f500]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 8: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f63eac68000+0x8f0f0) [0x7f63eacf70f0]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 9: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f63eac68000+0x8fd34) [0x7f63eacf7d34]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 10: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f63eac68000+0x109cde) [0x7f63ead71cde]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 11: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f63eac68000+0x4895c8) [0x7f63eb0f15c8]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 12: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x177149) [0x577149]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 13: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0xa7f9e) [0x4a7f9e]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 14: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0xd5edb) [0x4d5edb]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 15: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x55431) [0x455431]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 16: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21e4b) [0x421e4b]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 17: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x3f8061ecdd]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 285.649] 18: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x219d9) [0x4219d9]</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 291.223] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000c870, 0x0000d274)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 294.227] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000c870, 0x00008454)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 301.227] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000c870, 0x00008454)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">[ 304.228] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000c870, 0x00008bf4)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I know that Xorg-server was updated between SL6.1 to SL6.3. The issue looks similar to the bug reported at (<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618356"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #0e22a2">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618356</span></a>).
I have tried downgrading the NVidia drive and the using the old Scientific Linux kernel to no avail.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Any suggestions on how to correct this incompatibility (?) would be most appreciated.</span></div>
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