Latest update boots to blank screen (nvidia)

[CS DBA]

Hi All;

I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation GT218 
[NVS 3100M] (rev a2) )

I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf setup: 
/rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau/

I did the update which installed/updated the following:

---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed
---> Package kernel-headers.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be updated
---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 1:280.13-2.fc14 set to be updated

However when I reboot the system boots to a blank screen, and even the 
previous kernel boots to a blank screen.
I tried installing akmod-nvidia but get the same results

I've restored the system back to before the update for now...

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance

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[CS DBA]

On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, CS DBA wrote:
>  Hi All;
>
>  I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation GT218 
>  [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) )
>
>  I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf 
>  setup: /rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau/
>
>  I did the update which installed/updated the following:
>
>  ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed
>  ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed
>  ---> Package kernel-headers.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be updated
>  ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 1:280.13-2.fc14 set to be updated
>
>  However when I reboot the system boots to a blank screen, and even the 
>  previous kernel boots to a blank screen.
>  I tried installing akmod-nvidia but get the same results
>
>  I've restored the system back to before the update for now...
>
>  Thoughts?
>
>  Thanks in advance
>
>  -- 
>  ---------------------------------------------
>  Kevin Kempter       -       Constent State
>  A PostgreSQL Professional Services Company
>             www.consistentstate.com
>  --------------------------------------------- 

Anyone have any suggestions how to debug this?

Thanks in advance...



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Kevin Kempter       -       Constent State
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           www.consistentstate.com
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[Arthur Dent]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:48 -0600, CS DBA wrote:
>  On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, CS DBA wrote: 
>  > Hi All;
>  > 
>  > I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation
>  > GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) )
>  > 
>  > I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf
>  > setup:    rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
>  > 
>  > I did the update which installed/updated the following:
>  > 
>  > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be
>  > installed                
>  > ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be
>  > installed          
>  > ---> Package kernel-headers.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be
>  > updated          
>  > ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 1:280.13-2.fc14 set to be updated 
>  > 
>  > However when I reboot the system boots to a blank screen, and even
>  > the previous kernel boots to a blank screen.
>  > I tried installing akmod-nvidia but get the same results
>  > 
>  > I've restored the system back to before the update for now...
>  > 
>  > Thoughts?
>  > 
>  > Thanks in advance
>  > 
>  > -- 
>  > ---------------------------------------------
>  > Kevin Kempter       -       Constent State 
>  > A PostgreSQL Professional Services Company
>  >           www.consistentstate.com
>  > ---------------------------------------------
>  
>  
>  Anyone have any suggestions how to debug this? 
I can't help much, but if you look at my thread from earlier
today 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-August/403344.html
you'll see that I have a very similar problem.

I am just creating an account on the rpmfusion bugzilla list to report
this as a bug (have to go out now so will do it later tonight...).

Regards

Mark

[linux guy]

I've got boot issues in F14 and F15 preupgrade.

I haven't had a boot issue in Linux for years !

[linux guy]

How did you roll back the update ?

Thanks !

[CS DBA]

On 08/25/2011 11:18 AM, linux guy wrote:
>  How did you roll back the update ?
>
>  Thanks ! 
I have a couple of rsync scripts. I run the rsync_backup.sh before I 
apply ANY updates no matter how trivial. Then I can always run 
rsync_restore.sh to roll back.  The only downside is that I have to have 
space in /stage/backup to hold a copy of most of my system (the parts I 
back up), however I have (2) 750GB drives in my laptop and /stage is the 
full second drive so it works out pretty well.  Anything I don't plan on 
backing up I stage on the /stage drive - I have a number of VM's that I 
do not back up in /stage/virtualmachines.  This has saved me from having 
a down / disabled system many many times...


Here's the scripts:

$ cat rsync_backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

for I in `cat dirlist`
do
         echo "[$I]"
         echo "=========="
         rsync -avXA --delete /${I} /stage/backup
done



  $ cat rsync_restore.sh

#!/bin/bash

for I in `cat dirlist2`
do
         echo "[$I]"
         echo "=========="
         rsync -avXA --delete /stage/backup/${I} /
done



and here's my dirlist files (note that I backup /home but in the list 
used for restore I don't bother to restore it, however it's nice to have 
that option):

$ cat dirlist

bin
boot
cgroup
etc
home
lib
lost+found
misc
opt
root
sbin
selinux
srv
tmp
usr
var



$ cat dirlist2

bin
boot
etc
lib
lost+found
misc
net
opt
root
sbin
selinux
srv
tmp
usr
var




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Kevin Kempter       -       Constent State
A PostgreSQL Professional Services Company
           www.consistentstate.com
---------------------------------------------

[CS DBA]

On 08/24/2011 02:10 PM, CS DBA wrote:
>  Hi All;
>
>  I have an IBM Thinkpad with an Nvidia card ( nVidia Corporation GT218 
>  [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) )
>
>  I currently have the nouveau driver black listed in my grub.conf 
>  setup: /rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau/
>
>  I did the update which installed/updated the following:
>
>  ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed
>  ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be installed
>  ---> Package kernel-headers.i686 0:2.6.35.14-95.fc14 set to be updated
>  ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 1:280.13-2.fc14 set to be updated
>
>  However when I reboot the system boots to a blank screen, and even the 
>  previous kernel boots to a blank screen.
>  I tried installing akmod-nvidia but get the same results
>
>  I've restored the system back to before the update for now...
>
>  Thoughts?
>
>  Thanks in advance
>
>  -- 
>  ---------------------------------------------
>  Kevin Kempter       -       Constent State
>  A PostgreSQL Professional Services Company
>             www.consistentstate.com
>  --------------------------------------------- 
Hi All;

I still cannot apply the latest kernel & nvidia package. Has anyone 
resolved this?

Thanks in advance

[linux guy]

>  I still cannot apply the latest kernel & nvidia package. Has anyone
>  resolved this?
>
>  
I got two of my computers with this problem to boot by removing all
kmod-nvidia and akmod-nvidia files and also removing (renaming)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

This causes the machines to boot with the nouveau driver, which works for
me, for now.

I'll tackle the issue again when I have more time.