I broke my Warty...

[Rune Maagensen]

Arnold Maestre wrote:
> Le mercredi 03 novembre 2004 à 09:39 +0100, Oliver Grawert a écrit :
> 
>>regarding the bug report it's your chance to get it working. the nvidia
>>drivers are compiled against another version of libc. the fact that they
>>are binary-only makes it impossible to recompile them against a newer
>>libc version. you can blame nvidia for this....and only wait until a new
>>nvidia driver is out. the best solution is to use the xfree nv driver
>>until its solved.
> 
> 
> I guess we'll have tofind another way, because this still doesn't work.
> I moved nvidia out of the way (sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx,
> nano /etc/modules to comment out the line pre-loading nvidia,
> nano /etc/X11/XF86config-4 to load the nv driver instead), the xserver
> still starts (it did start with nvidia also), but gdm dies with the same
> error message.
> 
> Seeing it seemed to have something to do with libc6, i downgraded libc6
> and libc6-686 to 2.3.2.ds1-13ubuntu2, but gdm keeps dying.
> 
> I also tried booting an older kernel, but in vain. the X server starts,
> but the gdm session dies. Unless my nvidia cleansing is incomplete, I
> don't know if we can still assume this bug is nvidia-related.

Nope, I don't think so. I've dist-upgraded my system last night and have 
had no problems what so ever. I think something else has happened to 
your system. If you want the exact versions just mail me.

/Rune

root at ubuntu:/home/rune/iso # dpkg -l|grep libc6
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-18ub GNU C Library: Shared libraries and 
Timezone
ii  libc6-dev      2.3.2.ds1-18ub GNU C Library: Development Libraries 
and Hea
ii  libc6-i686     2.3.2.ds1-18ub GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 
optimi
root at ubuntu:/home/rune/iso # dpkg -l|grep nvidia
ii  nvidia-glx     1.0.6111-1ubun NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
ii  nvidia-kernel- 1.0.6111+1ubun NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii  nvidia-setting 1.0-3ubuntu1   Tool of configuring the NVIDIA 
graphics driv
root at ubuntu:/home/rune/iso # dpkg -l|grep gdm
ii  gdm            2.6.0.3-1ubunt GNOME Display Manager
root at ubuntu:/home/rune/iso #