Thanks Andreas.
I doubt NVIDIA will spend any cycles on troubleshooting issues
with an older driver.
About a year ago I reported #905309 to the forum that NVIDIA says
is the official support channel for Linux driver issues. I never
heard back.
The main reason why I filed the bug report was to document the
workaround should anyone else hit this. It is highly unusual
for a stable upgrade to cause an issue of this magnitude.
/Allan
On 2019-02-22 00:39:36, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
Control: tag -1 upstream
On 2019-02-17 07:40, Allan Wind wrote:
The stable release 9.8 contained an upgrade of nvidia-drivers from
384.130-1 to 390.87-8~deb9u1 which caused my system hang during
subsequent boots. The release also contains a linux-image update, and I
installed a known working kernel (4.9.0-5) and it too failed to boot
with 390.87-8~deb9u1. Then I upgraded nividia-driver to the version in
unstable, and I was able to boot my system. Unfortunately, this is the
version information being picked up in this bug report.
There haven't been similar reports with the 390.xx driver from
stretch-backports or with the 390.xx driver in sid (with newer kernels
than 4.9) - maybe it is specific to your card. Or some other hardware.
There is nothing we can do about bugs in the proprietary driver. And I
expect you don't want to try reporting this upstream - since you have a
working configuration now, and getting useful information if the system
fails to boot is difficult.
Andreas
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