gdm crashes with proprietary nvidia drivers
@sils
Submitted by Lasse Schuirmann Link to original bug (#748462)
Description
Hi,
first off, I'm using an up to date ArchLinux with gdm 3.16.1.1.
What I did:
I had nvidia, nvidia-libgl and the 32 bit equivalents installed.
I updated the whole system today to the version named above, typed "reboot" and waited.
After booting I was greeted with "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again.". (Before login. Pressing that button thus yielded nothing of course.)
After replacing the nvidia package with nouveau I got the same result but this time it at least used both screens for it :) Replacing nvidia-libgl with mesa-libgl then solved the problem.
Here some except from IRC:
Jasper sils_, if we detect that Wayland isn't working properly, we should fall back to the Xorg gdm implementation. Is that not working? sils_ Jasper, it just showed "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again." sils_, I just assumed that this was the reason and uninstalling all nvidia stuff using nouveau solved the problem Jasper Yeah, it could be that the fallback isn't working properly.
Please let me know what debug info I can provide so the issue can be investigated further. I may not be able to provide much in the next few days though I will try.
Version: 3.16.x