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February 1, 2014 6:51:06 AM

Gents:

Running U12.04 on AMD965:

My system hung at the end of a UTUBE video ... I used CTRL-ALT-F1 to reach the command-line. START-X failed to produce a GUI. I then closed out with the SHUTDOWN command.

Upon restart I get MSI splash/Ubuntu splash ... and various brief / scrambled text messages and then a CLI LOGIN screen. STARTX fails with long messages ending with :

" NVIDIA: API mismatch. NVIDIA kernel module has version 173.14.35 but this NVIDIA driver component has version 304.116"

ddxSigGiveUp: closing log
Server terminated with error (1)
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connent to X server
xinit: server error"

The new NV-304 driver was installed a day before and was listed on the NVidia tool window. I'm left at the login command prompt. How do I attack this fail?


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February 1, 2014 6:57:34 AM

Revert to the previous driver.
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February 1, 2014 7:34:03 AM

I have never reverted NVIdia drivers, and never changed drivers from the command-line. Please advise on method.

Ijack said:
Revert to the previous driver.


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February 1, 2014 8:57:52 AM

http://askubuntu.com/questions/75289/can-i-revert-an-nv...

If you still can't get the NVidia drivers to work you could always just use the standard VGA driver. It'll be slower but it will get you a GUI back.
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February 1, 2014 9:21:16 AM

*NEW*: And this is very amusing... at CLI I try:

nvidia-xconfig

... and get the error message:

"Validation error: data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Undefined Device "(NULL)" referenced by Screen "default Screen"
ERROR: Unable to write to directory /etc/X11"

What sort of "SMASH" did that UTUBE video (violent al-Nusra agitprop) put onto my system ?

I imagine that would be: apt-get remove nvidia-current

On Ubuntu sites I'm seeing suggestions for reconfiguring the xserver. Are there command-line tests I can perform to give me a handle on the current status of my graphics sub-system?
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February 1, 2014 1:02:37 PM

IJACK:

Not really revert to previous driver. Rather kill.all NVIDIA reverting to nou* the built.in Linux vid driver. Then reinstall NVIDIA-current: Stupid me I've been down this path before.

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-*
///reboot///
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
///reboot///

Funny item 'eh .. posters at ASK-UBUNTU were especially amused (Andre Desnoy et al.) that you must first wipe the NV slate clean, then suck back everything. Like discovering your true love soulmate is an ex-girlfriend boyo will you grovel .....
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February 1, 2014 5:57:32 PM

I had something similar happen. I had a refurb ssd and apparently a sector containing the graphics driver got corrupted and I could not get into gui. The only solution I could figure out was to reinstall the system.
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February 1, 2014 7:07:18 PM

Yes I feared a similar DEEP mess, especially considering the video that "prompted" the lockup. If I would have done a lusrland HARD-REBOOT out of the lock I never would have seen an issue, but I had to be smarty-pantz and try CTRL-ALT-F1 ! Leason learned ... peasants should tend their crops .....

Aristotelian said:
I had something similar happen. I had a refurb ssd and apparently a sector containing the graphics driver got corrupted and I could not get into gui. The only solution I could figure out was to reinstall the system.


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February 1, 2014 8:11:50 PM

It may have been already broken probably when youtube crashed. I can't magine ctr-alt-f1 made it worse. I suspect hardware issue with your hdd. Its not the peasant's fault.
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February 2, 2014 8:19:41 AM

Hummmm .. my "system-files" HDD DOES report defective blocks. This legacy AMD965 is the dumping ground for fringe & unwanted/unloved computer pieces including HDDs. I have assumed the OS indentifies, marks & justs routes-around the issue.

Aristotelian said:
It may have been already broken probably when youtube crashed. I can't magine ctr-alt-f1 made it worse. I suspect hardware issue with your hdd. Its not the peasant's fault.


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February 2, 2014 8:58:17 AM

If it fried something that is stopping it from booting there is no way for it to do the repair on its own. See if you can boot with a Live USB system, get to your GUI and either reinstall or repair the damage.
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February 2, 2014 8:02:53 PM

BigA:

It's running now. I first **removed** ALL NVidia programs. Then I **restored** all NVidia programs. The CLI text is given in a previous post in this topic. Lucky I had the external source advice.

While writing some code, & being a fluent J6Pk computer lusr, I admit to being at the ragged_edge of personal ability & interest adminning my personal stash of two Ubuntu and one WinXP boxes.

I've wondered for years if some-one could produce a modestly ambitious ($60) heuristic/AI 'bill.the.butler' HW_card with always-on ROOT access to the system AND the lusr. The universal helper card. As an independent plug-in PCI + SOC it would always be available to provide usrland help. I mean are there 20,000 or 500,000 common desktop computer **fluxxes?** that such a card could address trivially ... and a few moments "thought" + system_scan prolly increases that solution set by x100 ! Such a card would be every lusrs friend.in.the.business.

Aristotelian said:
If it fried something that is stopping it from booting there is no way for it to do the repair on its own. See if you can boot with a Live USB system, get to your GUI and either reinstall or repair the damage.


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