I did the following and installed apparently the 'fixed' 173.08 drivers. now everything works so far. however i had to reboot esc and ask ubuntu to fix the xorg for me during boot up
[Update] Nvidia reports (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1639245&postcount=13): Re: This web page crashex 169.12 and 173.08 but not 169.04 It should be using the one from the server. That looks like a bug in the package. The .run installer will always create a symlink from libnvidia-wfb.so.1 to libnvidia-wfb.so.1.x.y.z, and then will create a symlink from libwfb.so to libnvidia-wfb.so.1 only if an existing libwfb.so doesn't already exist. The idea is that if the server installed one, it'll use that, and if someone used a distribution package and then installed the .run file over it, the distro package would have already created a libwfb.so -> libnvidia-wfb.so.1 symlink. In practice, I don't think that was communicated clearly enough to the distributions. [Testcase] To reproduce the bug, gedit killer.html and paste the following line: <div style="border: 1px solid #000; border-left: none; height: 200000px;"></div> Save, close, and open with Firefox. WARNING: This will probably crash X for users with proprietary Nvidia drivers and 8xxx series cards (at least it crashes for me). [Workaround] sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/nvidia/libwfb.so.xserver-xorg-core /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so Or alternately, To temporarily fix the problem (if you're running nvidia-glx-new) download the updated libwfb and then copy it over to your /usr/lib/xorg/modules directory, and then create a new symbolic link to libwfb: $ wget http://people.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/wfb/Linux-x86_64/libnvidia-wfb.so.173.08 $ mv libnvidia-wfb.so.173.08 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ $ sudo chown root /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.173.08 $ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.173.08 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so Restart xorg and everything should function normally. Enjoy! To restore back to the original, drop back to the X terminal (ctrl+alt+f1) and then link back the original library. $ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.169.12 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so instead of libnvidia-wfb.so.173.08 And your X should function as normal without having to reinstall the nvidia drivers. -- [nvidia-new, hardy] certain websites in firefox causes X restart due to lack of wfb symlink https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212648 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
