Description of problem: I installed the non free drivers from nvidia for my graphic card but couldn't boot. the system freezes at restart. see the file joined. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 8448 [details] /var/message extract when installing nvidia driver
Created attachment 8449 [details] dmesg when booting with nvidia drivers
CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => kernel
How did you install the nvidia drivers? The ones packaged by Mageia, or the ones provided by nvidia?
I used drakconf that propose to install the Mageia nvidia packages. See /var/log/messages in attachment 8448 [details] https://bugs.mageia.org/attachment.cgi?id=8448
Thierry, it looks like the drakx code to prefer prebuilt kmods now bites us since we dont have prebuilt proprietary drivers anymore... From the log: drakx11[24329]: those kernel module packages can be installed: dkms-nvidia340 nvidia340-kernel-3.19.8-desktop-3.mga5 dkms-nvidia340 dkms-nvidia340 nvidia340-kernel-4.1.12-desktop-1.mga5 nvidia340-kernel-4.1.13-desktop-2.mga5 dkms-nvidia340 dkms-nvidia340 dkms-nvidia340 nvidia340-kernel-4.1.12-desktop-1.mga5 nvidia340-kernel-4.1.13-desktop-2.mga5 dkms-nvidia340 Then it goes ahead and pulls in / "downgrades to ancient release kernel" with matching kmods: [RPM][24353]: install kernel-desktop-3.19.8-3.mga5-1-1.mga5.x86_64: success [RPM][24353]: install nvidia340-kernel-3.19.8-desktop-3.mga5-340.76-27.mga5.nonfree.x86_64: success even if the user had newer kernels: bootloader-config[24455]: current labels: linux-nonfb failsafe desktop 4.1.12-1.mga5 desktop 4.1.13-2.mga5 linux desktop 4.4.13-1.mga5 desktop 4.4.16-1.mga5 and poof...
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb
(In reply to Thomas Backlund from comment #5) > Thierry, it looks like the drakx code to prefer prebuilt kmods now bites us > since we dont have prebuilt proprietary drivers anymore... > <snip> > > > Then it goes ahead and pulls in / "downgrades to ancient release kernel" > with matching kmods: > [RPM][24353]: install kernel-desktop-3.19.8-3.mga5-1-1.mga5.x86_64: success > [RPM][24353]: install > nvidia340-kernel-3.19.8-desktop-3.mga5-340.76-27.mga5.nonfree.x86_64: success > <snip> > > even if the user had newer kernels: > bootloader-config[24455]: current labels: linux-nonfb failsafe desktop > 4.1.12-1.mga5 desktop 4.1.13-2.mga5 linux desktop 4.4.13-1.mga5 desktop > 4.4.16-1.mga5 > So regardless of whether drakx got fixed, this cannot happen in Mageia 6 or later. Mageia 5 has officially reached its End of Life on December 31st, 2017 https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/11/07/mageia-5-eol-postponed/ It only continued to get important security updates since then, but non-security bugs have no chance of still getting fixed. Closing as OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD