nvidia GLX problem

[Seigi Kan]

Hi forum,

after having succeeded to install nvidia drivers to F13 thanks to this post, I was able to run compiz and some other programs requiering OpenGL.

However, since a few days all has changed and I do not know why.

During startup I get:

Checking for module nvidia.ko: 	[  OK  ]
Enabling the nvidia driver: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00c46822 ***
...
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: Zeile 530:  1375 Abgebrochen             "$@"
	[FAILED]

The program I need reports

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x00260036 in FX::FXGLViewer::onUpdRight (this=0xbfffe954, sender=0xbfffe184)
    at FXGLViewer.cpp:2128
2128	  sender->handle(this,(EPS>fabs(rotation[0]) && EPS>fabs(rotation[1]+0.7071067811865) && EPS>fabs(rotation[2]) && EPS>fabs(rotation[3]-0.7071067811865)) ? FXSEL(SEL_COMMAND,ID_CHECK) : FXSEL(SEL_COMMAND,ID_UNCHECK),NULL);
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install bzip2-libs-1.0.5-6.fc12.i686 glibc-2.12-2.i686 libX11-1.3.1-3.fc13.i686 libXau-1.0.5-1.fc12.i686 libXcursor-1.1.10-4.fc13.i686 libXext-1.1-2.fc13.i686 libXfixes-4.0.4-2.fc13.i686 libXrandr-1.3.0-5.fc13.i686 libXrender-0.9.5-1.fc13.i686 libgcc-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686 libjpeg-6b-46.fc12.i686 libpng-1.2.44-1.fc13.i686 libstdc++-4.4.4-2.fc13.i686 libtiff-3.9.4-1.fc13.i686 libxcb-1.5-1.fc13.i686 mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 proj-4.7.0-3.fc13.i686 xerces-c-3.0.1-19.fc13.i686 zlib-1.2.3-23.fc12.i686

Compiz says I wouldn't have 3D hardware acceleration and this is also weired:

[root@xyz log]# glxinfo|grep render
Error: glXCreateContext failed

Enabling nvidia driver reported:

[root@xyz log]# nvidia-config-display enable
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00533822 ***
...

and X11 log contains the following entries:

[root@xyz log]# cat Xorg.0.log | grep EE
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    33.450] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[    33.701] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
[    33.701] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
[    33.701] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
[    33.702] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
[    33.702] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
[    35.927] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[    35.972] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)

I'm rather lost, any help would be appreciated.

Here is some additional info that might help:

[root@xyz log]# lspci | grep VGA
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)

[root@xyz log]# uname -r
2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE

[root@xyz log]# rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia
nvidia-xconfig-1.0-2.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-195.36.31-2.fc13.i686
kmod-nvidia-PAE-195.36.31-1.fc13.1.i686
nvidia-settings-1.0-4.fc13.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-195.36.31-2.fc13.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE-195.36.31-1.fc13.1.i686

Any ideas?


Seigi

[ozjd]

Is your system up to date? There was an update in the last few days that included glibc and the nvidia driver from rpmfusion. You should have got both but if you didn't that could be your problem.
Rpmfusion sometimes takes a few days to catch up with changes such as new kernels or in this case a new version of glibc. Using the akmod in place of the kmod solves this though.

[Seigi Kan]

Wow, this was fast

Don't know why, but the notification of updates seems to have failed somhow. I'm downloading them at the moment.

Concerning

[root@xyz log]# glxinfo|grep render
Error: glXCreateContext failed

Adjusting xorg.conf fixed the problem:

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" #was missing
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"                              #was missing
EndSection

Now compiz is back, but the boot error remains as well as SIGILL for the appliication.

Seigi

[leigh123linux]

Your custom xorg.conf is causing the error, you don't need to edit it as the path is already included ( you broke nvidia-config-display by editing it ).


To fix it

su
rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf
nvidia-config-display disable
nvidia-config-display enable

restart X

[Seigi Kan]

Leigh,
your tips are always so great! Thank you, the bootup error is now gone. I remember that I played around with nvidia-settings. What is the preferred way if I want to change things with it. Should I

• merge the configuration file - or
• replace it?

Oddly enough, the SIGILL in the other program I need changed to a SIGSEGV:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00260038 in FX::FXDirList::createItem (this=0xbfffe964, text=..., oi=0x7d0, 
    ci=0x1, ptr=0x3000) at FXDirList.cpp:226
226	  return (FXTreeItem*) new FXDirItem(text,oi,ci,ptr);
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install bzip2-libs-1.0.5-6.fc12.i686 glibc-2.12-3.i686 libX11-1.3.1-3.fc13.i686 libXau-1.0.5-1.fc12.i686 libXcursor-1.1.10-4.fc13.i686 libXext-1.1-2.fc13.i686 libXfixes-4.0.4-2.fc13.i686 libXrandr-1.3.0-5.fc13.i686 libXrender-0.9.5-1.fc13.i686 libgcc-4.4.4-10.fc13.i686 libjpeg-6b-46.fc12.i686 libpng-1.2.44-1.fc13.i686 libstdc++-4.4.4-10.fc13.i686 libtiff-3.9.4-1.fc13.i686 libxcb-1.5-1.fc13.i686 mesa-libGLU-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 proj-4.7.0-3.fc13.i686 xerces-c-3.0.1-19.fc13.i686 zlib-1.2.3-23.fc12.i686

But this change may be the result of the changeing of glibc, libgcc and libstdc++

Bye,

Seigi

---------- Post added at 11:02 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:29 PM CDT ----------

Leigh,

after your tip I recompiled the program and the needed libraries and now it works fine. Thank you again!

Seigi