I updated one of our machines yesterday and now it fails to boot, I am sure because the nvidia driver is missing.
I could back off to kernel 3.11.10-34 (which still works) but two questions:
1: why did this happen?
2: how do I fix?
Evidence:
tippett:/lib/modules # find 3.12.53-40-de* -name *nvidia*
3.12.53-40-desktop/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
3.12.53-40-desktop/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
3.12.53-40-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia
tippett:/lib/modules # find 3.11.10-34-de* -name *nvidia*
3.11.10-34-desktop/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia
3.11.10-34-desktop/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko
3.11.10-34-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia
3.11.10-34-desktop/weak-updates/updates/nvidia.ko
and /var/log/x11.0.log,old
34.013] (II) Module glx: vendor=“NVIDIA Corporation”
34.014] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
34.014] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
34.014] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.131 Sun Nov 8 22:03:20 PST 2015
34.014] Loading extension GLX
34.014] (II) LoadModule: “nvidia”
34.014] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
34.015] (II) Module nvidia: vendor=“NVIDIA Corporation”
34.015] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
34.015] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
34.021] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check
your
34.021] (EE) NVIDIA: system’s kernel log for additional error messages.
34.021] (II) UnloadModule: “nvidia”
34.021] (II) Unloading nvidia
34.021] (EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (module-specific error, 0)