On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 22 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>> On Jan 22, 2014 5:55 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> Today, on one amd64/systemd machine, I tried updating 3.10.17 to >>>> 3.10.25. As expected make oldconfig showed nothing new, so I thought >>>> the new kernel would just work. >>>> >>>> However gdm failed, with several pairs of messages >>>> >>>> Jan 22 17:04:49 localhost gdm[276]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref: assertion >>> `object->ref_count > 0' failed. >>>> Jan 22 17:04:49 localhost gdm[276]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: >>> assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed. >>>> >>>> Has anyone had a similar problem, and perhaps a fix? Since 3.10.17 >>>> works fine for me, my current plan is to wait for the next stable >>>> kernel ebuild to hit and hope that one is better >>>> >>>> thanks, >>> >>> Really? It works with one kernel, but not the other? >> >> Surprised me too. I does "work", i.e. the system boots and I can use >> the text terminals, but gdm is a nogo >> >>> Are you sure both kernels boot with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd? >> >> I think so. For one thing the output I included is from journalctl. >> This system is grub1 and here is grub.conf >> >> default 0 >> timeout 10 >> splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >> title Gentoo Linux (vmlinuz) >> root (hd0,2) >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd >> >> title Gentoo Linux, Previous Compilation (vmlinuz.old) >> root (hd0,2) >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda3 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd >> >> title Gentoo Linux, known working (vmlinuz.works) >> root (hd0,2) >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz.works root=/dev/sda3 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd >> single >> >> title Windows Vista >> rootnoverify (hd0,1) >> makeactive >> chainloader +1 >> >> All I change is the target of /boot/vmlinuz, System.map, and config > > Oh, I just got it too. It's neither gdm nor systemd; it's the nvidia > binary module. Check lsmod, I bet you don't have it loaded, and dmesg > will have "nvidia: Unknown symbol acpi_os_wait_events_complete (err > 0)". No nvidia, no X, no X, no gdm (although the error message it > gives does sound weird). > > I'm checking how to get the nvidia drivers in 3.13.
Got it: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/644906/331-20-on-3-13-rc1-kernel/ Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
