I am running openSUSE 13.1 for a week now without any problems. This is a fresh install. This morning I installed an update for xorg, since then X randomly crashes, e.g. when using chrome to access facebook, google searches, …
Here is what I could find in the logs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6669000/Xorg.0.log
UPDATE: below are the last updates that were applied:
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.14.3.901-4.1.x86_64 Sat 28 Dec 2013 06:44:42 AM CET
openssl-1.0.1e-11.5.1.x86_64 Thu 26 Dec 2013 06:51:58 PM CET
Just found a solution somewhere on the internet (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947527).
Seems, as an NVIDIA user, you need to replace libglx.so from xorg with the one provide from NVIDIA. So:
goto: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions
create a backup: sudo mv libglx.so libglx.so_orig
symlink the NVIDIA library: sudo ln -s libglx.so.325.15 libglx.so
done
Please note, the libglx.so.325.15 might be named differently, depending on the version of the NVIDIA driver you have installed.
I’ve had so much trouble with Nvidia that I freaked when Chrome crashed on me this morning. I saw that an xorg update got pulled in with some other update but everything seemed ok until the Chrome crashes began.
I followed the procedure in this thread, substituting the driver number (304.88) that was in the directory for the number listed in the procedure. Chrome is working again but another annoyance surfaced. On the desktop, color transitions are not smooth. They jump in discrete steps with an outline between; sort of like a terrain map. I’ll live with it until an update fixes the problem.
An application crash is not autocratically a Video driver problem You may be chasing ghosts.
No. I never said it was a video problem. I think the problem is the xorg update overwrites the glx library. So after every xorg update, you should follow my procedure to make sure you’re using NVIDIA’s library again, or manually install the driver again. As already said by wolfi323 you will probably not have this problem if you use openSUSE’s installer for the driver.
And no, it is not a ghost, but perfectly reproducable:
I followed the procedure in this thread, substituting the driver number (304.88) that was in the directory for the number listed in the procedure. Chrome is working again but another annoyance surfaced. On the desktop, color transitions are not smooth. They jump in discrete steps with an outline between; sort of like a terrain map. I’ll live with it until an update fixes the problem.
304.88 is quite old, you may have better luck with a newer version.
