Todays upgrade breaking my system?

[lmilano]

Re: Todays upgrade breaking my system?

For those of you having trouble, what's the graphics in your machine? (HW and sofware)

They recently pulled the nouveau drivers for nvidia, and there are many recent changes in the graphics stack ...

[Jook_roberts]

Re: Todays upgrade breaking my system?

I have an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS
Pentium dual core processor
MSI P4M900M2 MoBo

Someone else was saying their system broke who had Nvidia graphics.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Todays upgrade breaking my system?

The nouveau video driver seems to be causing headaches all around.
Supposedly it is a backport from kernel 2.6.33 into -32.
It killed my system dead, but I was able to recover it.

Two things to try.
First, if you can get into your system one way or another, either booting an older kernel or by chroot, you can try the driver. You need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, removing (or commenting out) the Device section for your old driver, and adding in the following:

Section "Device"
    Identifier   "Device0"
    Driver     "nouveau"
EndSection

Now I could not figure out how to set the screen resolution, so what came up was something like 640x480. Maybe someone can figure out that part and I'll try it again.

The other approach is to remove the nouveau stuff altogether. You must get into your system, either by booting an older kernel or chroot, and

sudo apt-get remove --purge linux-backports-modules-noveau-2.6.32-14

or whatever kernel version it installed on. After that, you should be able to boot into a console or low graphics mode, and reinstall your video driver. I was able to reinstall the NVIDIA proprietary driver once I got the nouveau stuff out.

[lmilano]

Re: Todays upgrade breaking my system?

AHhhhhhhhhhhhh, I had a hunch it was nouveau. Could you guys please report it in Launchpad? One should not need to change that setting manually!