Public bug reported:
Hi,
My NVIDIA drivers recently broke, perhaps after the kernel got updated by the
software updater. It also seems like the name of some nvidia packages has
changed, which may have caused inconsistencies. I have purged all installed
nvidia software using apt-get, rebooted. and then reinstalled
nvidia-driver-396. After I reboot again the drivers are still broken. I tried
this several times and googled, but to no avail. I still cannot open
nvidia-settings and some other 3D functionality does not seem to work. Also,
when I try to open one of the nvidia command line tools I sometimes get
messages indicating that something with Xorg is not right.
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bram@bram-PE60-6QE:~$ sudo nvidia-settings
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `nvidia-settings --help`
for usage information.
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I looked at help, but it is not really giving me useful suggestions as a
semi-noob. This is the Xorg config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf generated by
the nvidia installer
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 396.54 (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-14)
Wed Aug 15 00:22:27 PDT 2018
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Does anyone have an idea of what I could try? Everything worked great
earlier, but something got messed up by the auto-updater. Any thoughts
would be greatly appreciated
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory:
'/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 396.54 Tue Aug 14 19:02:34
PDT 2018
GCC version: gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 25 22:48:24 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia, 396.54, 4.15.0-33-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] HD Graphics 530
[1462:115a]
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GM107M [GeForce GTX
960M] [1462:115a]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-30 (56 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
MachineType: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. PE60 6QE
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-33-generic
root=UUID=8dd6c3b5-a09b-4b97-9fcd-8e5579820e0e ro quiet splash i915.modeset=1
vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/17/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: E16J5IMS.314
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: MS-16J5
dmi.board.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: REV:0.A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.version: Default string
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrE16J5IMS.314:bd05/17/2016:svnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:pnPE606QE:pvrREV1.0:rvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:rnMS-16J5:rvrREV0.A:cvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:ct10:cvrDefaultstring:
dmi.product.name: PE60 6QE
dmi.product.version: REV:1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
nvidia-settings:
ERROR: Unable to find display on any available system
ERROR: Unable to find display on any available system
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubuntu wayland-session
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