Public bug reported: when I did apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, I saw that nvidia-430 package had the version 64 update that was just released a few days ago.
After installing it, my system wouldn't boot to xwindows. Failsafe boot to gui wouldn't work either The error messages looked similar to this bug report for nvidia drivers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/1752053 Here's what my xorg.[0,failsafe].log showed: [ 43.645] (++) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.failsafe.log", Time: Mon Jul 13 18:41:16 2020 [ 43.645] (++) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe" [ 43.645] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" [ 43.645] Parse error on line 7 of section OutputClass in file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf "OutputClass" is not a valid section name. [ 43.645] (EE) Problem parsing the config file [ 43.645] (EE) Error parsing the config file [ 43.645] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 43.645] (EE) no screens found(EE) I have a *directory* named what the file is looking for (at least now after I downgraded nvidia...) here is the contents: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf# cat nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf # This xorg.conf.d configuration snippet configures the X server to # automatically load the nvidia X driver when it detects a device driven by the # nvidia-drm.ko kernel module. Please note that this only works on Linux kernels # version 3.9 or higher with CONFIG_DRM enabled, and only if the nvidia-drm.ko # kernel module is loaded before the X server is started. Section "OutputClass" Identifier "nvidia" MatchDriver "nvidia-drm" Driver "nvidia" EndSection basically, in the progress of filing this bug report, I downgraded to nvidia-418 and my system was about to boot again. To me, that says that nvidia-430.64 at least on Ubuntu 14.04 has a regression ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887461 Title: nvidia-430 amd64 430.64=0ubuntu0~gpu14.04.1 broke xwindows on Ubuntu 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-384/+bug/1887461/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
