Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 526: 1263 Segmentation

[siregghead]

I am running F13 x64. A day or so ago, I installed some updates that my applet alerted me about. One of them apparently was a kernel update to 2.6.33.5-124. I was running 2.6.33.5-112. After this, I would get stuck after the splash screen completed. So I rebooted and at GRUB i selected my old kernel, and logged into my system. From there I saw that I had a boot message alert in my notification area about my nvidia drivers not loading (I have been running nvidia-kmod with nouveau disabled in the kernel commandline). I don't remember exactly what the message was, but I loaded my nvidia gui config panel and it said I needed to run a command to reenable my nvidia-kmod drivers. So I did this, reloaded my X environment and used my nvidia config to write all the settings to my xorg.conf file(the way I had it before). I am still getting an alert that says

"Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 526:  1263 Segmentation fault      "$@"    Failed"

. I am still booting from my old kernel as well. I looked online to see what might be missing on that line, and I appended the beginning of that line what I found. When I rebooted, I was dumped to a terminal. I was not able to edit my init.d/functions file as it was read only. So I booted from a live cd and edited it back to the way it was to begin with. While I had the live cd loaded, I checked the init.d/functions file from that system and that line is identical to the one I am running now. After editing it, I am now able to boot my system back up normal (still selecting my old kernel version) and I am still receiving the error listed above. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Thomas

[kurtdriver]

Have you seen Leigh123linux's guide to Nviida drivers?

[siregghead]

Yes. This isn't too far off from what I did anyway. But keep in mind that I have been running this system fine for several weeks now with F13, even with the kmod drivers. I only started having these troubles after the kernel update. Also on leigh123's guide, Quadro is listed as unsupported. This laptop has a Quadro NVS 160M.

[GoinEasy9]

If it was working with whatever kmod you were using, why not install the corresponding akmod, then reboot, and it will build the kmod for you (If your lucky, since the card is unsupported).

[siregghead]

I realized when leigh posted that it was unsupported, that was like 2005. So that may be why Anyway, I will give that a shot and let you know. I have to move to another location for work for a bit. I will let you know what happened later.

[assen]

Hi,

Similar issue here - with an ATI card, the open-source radeon driver and latest kernel: a black screen when X tries to come up.

Booting the previous kernel works OK.

Probably something is wrong the latest built, but I haven't had the change to dig deeper. In your /etc/grub.conf, just set the previous kernel as default boot for the time being.

WWell,

[AdamW]

assen: that's a completely different issue. Please file a bug. Thanks.

[leigh123linux]

I am running F13 x64. A day or so ago, I installed some updates that my applet alerted me about. One of them apparently was a kernel update to 2.6.33.5-124. I was running 2.6.33.5-112. After this, I would get stuck after the splash screen completed. So I rebooted and at GRUB i selected my old kernel, and logged into my system. From there I saw that I had a boot message alert in my notification area about my nvidia drivers not loading (I have been running nvidia-kmod with nouveau disabled in the kernel commandline). I don't remember exactly what the message was, but I loaded my nvidia gui config panel and it said I needed to run a command to reenable my nvidia-kmod drivers. So I did this, reloaded my X environment and used my nvidia config to write all the settings to my xorg.conf file(the way I had it before). I am still getting an alert that says

"Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 526:  1263 Segmentation fault      "$@"    Failed"

. I am still booting from my old kernel as well. I looked online to see what might be missing on that line, and I appended the beginning of that line what I found. When I rebooted, I was dumped to a terminal. I was not able to edit my init.d/functions file as it was read only. So I booted from a live cd and edited it back to the way it was to begin with. While I had the live cd loaded, I checked the init.d/functions file from that system and that line is identical to the one I am running now. After editing it, I am now able to boot my system back up normal (still selecting my old kernel version) and I am still receiving the error listed above. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Thomas

To fix the seg fault ( it's caused by your custom xorg.conf )

su
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.broken
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable

[siregghead]

To fix the seg fault ( it's caused by your custom xorg.conf )

su
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.broken
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable

That did it perfectly. It also sped up my boot time. I did not even see my splash screen. the disable command stated that it was already disabled. However the enable worked just fine. Thanks again leigh!


Thomas

[esau999]

To fix the seg fault ( it's caused by your custom xorg.conf )
Code:

su
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.broken
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable

I had the same problem, and this worked for me, also. It fixed a segfault problem I was having with projectM as well. Thanks Leigh!

[joculi]

To fix the seg fault ( it's caused by your custom xorg.conf )

su
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.broken
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable

I running F13 x64 on a Dell Latitude e6510 with an nvidia NVS 3100M card. The solution above worked for me. Thanks

[joculi]

It seems I spoke too soon. The recommended solution made the segmentation fault go away, but made my laptop stop recognizing my external display when docked in a docking station. I had to revert back to my "broken" xorg.conf to get the docking station working.

[dweb98]

I'm running Fedora 13 (32 bit) and had the same problem with the nvidia init.d "$@" error after installing the Fedora 13 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173xxx... nVidia Driver for my GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 from the RPMfusion-nonfree Repo. So, I followed your instructions and it worked for me too, Kind of...

To fix the seg fault ( it's caused by your custom xorg.conf )

su
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.broken
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable

After running, "mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.broken". I then ran, 'nvidia-config-display disable" But kept getting an error about no such command. So, I started thinking about it and remembered a pop up during my instalation that told me to run this command, "nvidia-xconfig". This sets up your xorg.conf file or makes one if you don't have one. I figured, since by renaming my xorg.conf file to xorg.conf.broken, I effectively have no xorg.conf file... All I really need is a good xorg.conf file. So, I ran "nvidia-xconfig" instead of running "nvidia-config-display enable". And after a Reboot, the init.d "$@" error was gone. So, I had to think it through, but your info was very helpful. It was indeed the custom xorg.conf settings for me too...

Thanks,

Don