X server dies on startup with kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 07:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> On 12/18/15 06:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > The problem with the Nvidia 340 series drivers is that they doesn't
> > support X11 version 18, 
> 
> I am currently running....
> 
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> akmod-nvidia-340xx-340.96-1.fc23.x86_64
> xorg-x11-server-common-1.18.0-2.fc23.x86_64

I installed akmod-nvidia-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64 and ran "dnf update"
which pulled in various X updates:

$ rpm -qa xorg\*
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.4.3-23.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.8.3-1.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-xbitmaps-1.1.1-8.fc23.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.2-23.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-resutils-7.5-12.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.30.0-3.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.7-16.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.0-0.4.20150729git5510cd6.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.9-4.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-16.20150729.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-common-1.18.0-2.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.7-16.fc23.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.9.99-2.20150807git66c997886.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.7-17.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.14.0-2.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.4-6.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.5-15.fc23.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-15.fc23.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-358.16-1.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.4-10.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.18.0-2.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-13.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.18.0-2.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-apps-7.7-14.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-29.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.12-1.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-utils-7.5-20.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.0.2-10.20150211git8f0cf7c.fc23.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-15.fc23.noarch
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.3.3-17.fc23.x86_64

After rebooting I get the login screen but Plasma segfaults and Gnome
gives an oops and sad face so I've had to fall back to LxQT until I can
figure out what's going on.

poc