"Oh no! Something went wrong!" After installing nvidia driver.

I recently used the 1-click install for the NVIDIA drivers (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers). I have a zbook 17 with a Quadro K610M. This is version 13.1.

Now I reboot and get the “Oh no! Something went wrong!” error with the log out button. Pressing enter to log out does nothing. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

Edit: Forgot to mention I checked the link http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/72250/en-us and it shows the k610m as a supported driver

There are several threads on the forum with the same error message in the title.

Searching for them might be quicker then waiting for advice.

Did you try to just reboot?

The driver packages do not work on first reboot after installation on 13.1. This should be fixed with the next update.
There should be no problem on subsequent boots though.

If that doesn’t help, it would be nice to know which packages you actually installed:

rpm -qa | egrep "kernel|nvidia"

Unfortunately GNOME (and even GDM) do not work at all in recovery mode when you have the nvidia driver installed.
So you would have to login to text mode and do that.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a text mode login.

Thanks for the replies. I’ll look around the forum.

Yes I rebooted multiple times. Here’s the output of

rpm -qa | egrep "kernel|nvidia"
kernel-devel-3.11.10-21.1.noarch
nvidia-computeG03-340.32-31.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-3.11.6-4.1.x86_64
x11-video-nvidiaG03-340.32-31.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-3.11.10-21.1.x86_64
kernel-firmware-20130714git-2.21.1.noarch
nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop-340.32_k3.11.6_4-31.1.x86_64
nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop-340.32_k3.11.6_4-31.1.x86_64
nvidia-glG03-340.32-31.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-devel-3.11.10-21.1.x86_64

susepase Link to Xorg.0.log

Ah I have a hybrid system. I’m going to remove the nvidia drivers and get back to where I can boot without the error. Then I will see if I can get bumblebee working.

Your log contains this:

    16.925] (EE) No devices detected.
    16.925] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
    16.925] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
    16.925] (EE)

Could it be that you have one of those Optimus systems, i.e. intel and nvidia graphics?
Please post the output of:

/sbin/lspci | egrep "VGA|3D"

In that case the nvidia driver won’t work, as it doesn’t support such systems (and it even breaks the intel driver).

If you can disable the intel chip in your BIOS settings, it might work.

Otherwise remove all nvidia packages again, and the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you should then be able to use GNOME on the intel chip again.
If you want to use the nvidia graphics as well, you should install Bumblebee:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

Installed bumblebee successfully using the directions. However the external monitor would not be detected. Looks like there’s ways to configure it with Bumblebee that I will try later. I was able to disable hybrid graphics in the BIOS which enabled the external monitor. I’ll try configuring it with Hybrid graphics some other time. (hp zbook)

Thanks for your help.