[04:59] <Sarvatt> http://xkcd.com/963/
[09:03] <ginggs> hi
[09:05] <ginggs> I have a lab full of natty machines that broke their nvidia drivers upgrading from 2.6.38-8 to 2.6.38-11, anyone able to assist please?
[09:07] <tjaalton> define "broke"
[09:08] <tjaalton> assuming the kernel driver didn't build; check the dkms logs
[09:09] <ginggs> from what i can tell the nvidia driver is built, but if the machines boot up on 2.6.38-11 nvidia encounters a general protection fault, if i select the old 2.6.38-8 kernel machine boots fine
[09:09] <bryceh> uninstall nvidia; boot to 2.6.38-11; reinstall nvidia; reboot
[09:10] <ginggs> i have tried purging nvidia-common and installing again, and this broke the nvidia driver in 2.6.38-8 as well!
[09:10]  * bryceh waves to tjaalton 
[09:10] <tjaalton> hey bryceh 
[09:11] <ginggs> so i'm guessing it's not so much the kernel, it's more to do with compiling the driver or building initrd?
[09:12] <bryceh> ginggs, 99% of the time, yep
[09:29] <ginggs> /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/270.41.06/2.6.38-11-generic/x86_64/log/make.log and /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/270.41.06/2.6.38-8-generic/x86_64/log/make.log look much the same to me
[09:30] <bryceh> pastebinit
[09:31] <ginggs> the 2.6.38-11 make.log?
[09:31] <bryceh> anything you want our feedback on
[10:18] <ginggs> 2.6.38-11 dkms make.log http://pastebin.com/FKgzN8uS
[11:24] <tseliot> ginggs: nvidia-common is only used for driver detection in Jockey, it's not part of the driver
[11:44] <ginggs> sorry - meant nvidia-current
[11:44] <ginggs> just got back from the lab, found the cause of the problem
[11:46] <ginggs> i had gcc-4.4 installed and had overridden gcc-4.5 in /etc/alternatives for CUDA SDK
[11:47] <ginggs> removing gcc-4.4 and reinstalling gcc-4.5 solved the problem of the nvidia driver general protection fault
[11:47] <ginggs> now just need to find a solution for CUDA
[12:38] <gnomefreak> i no longer have this issue, but after i installed fglrx drivers i lost X. I tried to revert back to default drivers but i couldnt find a way to do it since there is no *xorg.conf. any idea how i would do that, in case the next time i install them and they fail?
[12:39] <gnomefreak> also do the fglrx drivers work yet?
[12:41] <jcristau> uninstall fglrx?
[12:45] <gnomefreak> jcristau: didnt help
[12:45] <gnomefreak> i couldnt find a setting in updte-alternatives either
[21:13] <bdmurray> bryceh: "ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, whatever it takes to get this fixed in Ubuntu"
[21:13] <bdmurray> that's kind of funny
[21:13] <bdmurray> I noticed it in bug 857816 which seems rather important
[21:13] <ubot4> Launchpad bug 857816 in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) "X fails to start on boot (affects: 2) (heat: 10)" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/857816
[21:20] <Sarvatt> bryceh: shouldn't lightdm logs be getting attached?
[21:24] <Sarvatt> ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, whatever it takes to get this fixed in Ubuntu
[21:24] <Sarvatt> doesn't matter much for this bug, I've only hit it twice since the beginning of september and haven't been able to in the past 2 weeks trying to
[21:26] <bryceh> Sarvatt, yes it should include the lightdm logs if they're available, but there's a prompt (since it's owned by root), so it depends on the  user whether they're actually included
[21:26] <Sarvatt> ahh gotcha, was worried logs were gone completely since GDM was gone and I relied on gdm logs to fix a lot of bugs in the past
[21:27] <Sarvatt> hmm lightdm doesn't keep historical logs like gdm did though so nevermind
[21:27] <Sarvatt> mainly people filing bugs after the fact with nothing wrong in Xorg.0.log but a gdm log from 3 boots ago had it and was attached
[22:05] <bjsnider> Sarvatt, what do i do with the latest blob in x-updates, do i package it normally or as the -updates version?