Dear list, I am really really sorry for wasting your time with such a lengthy message. Once I understood that I could actually load a shell with ctrl + alt + f1 from my newest kernel I was able to run the 256.35 NVIDIA installer (given that I had all linux-headers and linux-source packages for that kernerl installed) that I had and everything runs smootlhy now.
Really sorry once again, Jason On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jason Filippou <jason.filip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > I was having some trouble running openGL in my Debian testing, > 2.6.32-5-686 kernel version system. I have an NVIDIA card and ran the > driver provided by nvidia-kernel-dkms. The problem was that when I ran > glxinfo, I got: > > glxinfo: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: > _nv000006gl > > so I decided to google a bit, ending up on an arch linux distribution > link which suggested that a certain filesystem folder be deleted: > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12771. This folder was /usr/lib/tls. > > After I -apparently wrongfully- deleted it, my 2.6.32-5-686 kernel > gets stuck during loading of the X server, and once I see or skip > through the error messages, I don't even get a shell to do some typing > to. Luckily, I had a 2.6.32-3-686 kernel in my system, which, > unfortunately, doesn't load X either. This particular kernel version, > does, however, give me a shell, yet I have tried lots of things, such > as reinstalling the 5-686 kernel ( I don't want to mess around with > the 3-686 image and end up with an unusable installation), > re-installing the xserver-xorg package, even removing > nvidia-kernel-dkms and trying to install one of three NVIDIA > installers I already had in my home folder: 190.53, 195.36.08, > 256.35). However, trying to run every one of those installer scripts > tells me that I do not have the appropriate source files for the > kernel that I'm running (which, I would like to remind you, is > currently 2.6.32-3-686). I tried installing the appropriate > linux-headers package, however, there seems to not exist a > linux-headers-2.6.32-3-686 package. I also reinstalled > linux-source-2.6.32 and linux-source-2.6, yet the NVIDIA installers > will still not run. Installing nvidia-kernel-source doesn't help > either. > > So I'm stuck with a kernel I can not even run a shell from, and > another older one which doesn't appear to be of much help to me. > Anything I could do? > > Currently posting from my laptop. When I run startx, I get a bunch of > errors, such as: > > Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 190.53, but > this NVIDIA driver component has version 195.36.31. Please make sure > that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same > version. > (EE) Dec 29 14:38:15 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIa kernel module. > . > . > . > (EE) NVIDIA(0): ***Aborting*** > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Fatar server error: > no screens found. > . > . > . > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > Thanks for any help, as I'm not sure what to do here. Please do CC me > as I am not on the list. > > -- > Jason Filippou > > http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06142 > -- Jason Filippou http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06142 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin+fq4noxpagzouan12n4xp5_2a9rcyzbpx3...@mail.gmail.com