After an update to the latest Nvidia driver (via the NVidia Repo) the nvidia-settings app has started to fail. The failure is 100% reproducible by:
The only message on the console is:
dvernon@iroh:~> nvidia-settings
Aborted
Couple questions:
Anyone else seeing this?
What forum/bugzilla/site is appropriate for communicating this failure?
A backtrace for the terminally curios:
(gdb) bt
#0 0xffffe430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb76d3990 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0xb76d52c8 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3 0xb7715683 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0xb7716edb in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x0808caef in ?? ()
#6 0x0808d405 in ?? ()
#7 0x0808dcf8 in layout_selected_callback ()
#8 0x08087ef4 in ?? ()
#9 0xb7cdb4b6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#10 0xb7a22d8b in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb7a3912d in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0xb7a3a6bb in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0xb7a3acb6 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#14 0xb7df09fe in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#15 0xb7cd3fcc in gtk_propagate_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0xb7cd5497 in gtk_main_do_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#17 0xb7b5e6ca in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#18 0xb79829c8 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0xb7986083 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0xb79865a2 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0xb7cd5829 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#22 0x0806033c in ctk_main ()
#23 0x08058259 in main ()
Did you do a reboot after installing? Or at least an init 3 followed by an init 5?
Personally I don’t use the nvidia-settings program. I install the driver, run sax2 once after a fresh install, add some options and leave it like that.
I have the same latpop, and the same problem.
kernel: 2.6.27.23, x86_64
nvidia packages:
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-185.18.14_2.6.27.23_0.1-2.2
x11-video-nvidiaG02-185.18.14-2.2
To reproduce, I open up nvidia-settings, choose the “X Server Display Configuration” item on the left, and click “Detect Displays” on the right.
Crash.