Here's what happened to me... I upgraded my new macbook 13" ( model 5 ) running Karmic/64-bit earlier this afternoon. The update happened to include both a new kernel ( -7 ), and a new version of the nvidia driver ( 185 ).
After rebooting, the system would only come up with a command-line login prompt. Bryce and I chatted, and after checking out my Xorg.0.log file, it indicated that the nvidia driver couldn't be loaded. Mario chimed in and asked whether or not nvidia-glx-185 was installed. It wasn't, however I did see: nvidia-185-kernel-source, -modaliases, and -libvdpau. So, I ran: $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-185 ...and it installed fine. However I still wasn't able to get X to start. This time, when I examined Xorg.0.log, I discovered that it complained about an "Invalid ELF header". So next, I ran: % file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so ...which reported that the file was "data"! !...@#% I grabbed the .deb from the cache and extracted it's contents, and the _drv.so file was correct. So, in order to resolve, I purged the old nvidia-glx-180 package, and re-installed nvidia-glx-185 and everything now seems back to normal. -- nvidia-glx-185 conflicts nvidia-glx-180 (<< 185.18.37) version is too high, this means that dummy package nvidia-glx-180 can't upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
