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Update of 17 Aug causes broken pipe error Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
Ubunutu (64-bit) update that came out Aug 17 evening (New York time) caused PC not to reboot. Got broken pipe error. Had great running system and upgrade ruined it. Another error when I was trying load in failsafe mode said something about difference between update and nVidia driver (173 driver). See details below for more info.
john@john-N68S3B:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 VGA
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:03d6] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device [1565:1405]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia_current_updates, nvidia_173, nouveau, nvidiafb
john@john-N68S3B:~$ sudo apt-cache policy nvidia-current
[sudo] password for john:
nvidia-current:
Installed: 304.37-0ubuntu1~precise~xu
Candidate: 304.37-0ubuntu1~precise~xu
Version table:
*** 304.37-0ubuntu1~precise~xu
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-sw...pdates/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
295.40-0ubuntu1.1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/restricted
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/restricte
295.40-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/restricted amd64 Packages
john@john-N68S3B:~$
What are next steps?
John
john@john-N68S3B:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 VGA
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:03d6] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Biostar Microtech Int'l Corp Device [1565:1405]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia_current_updates, nvidia_173, nouveau, nvidiafb
john@john-N68S3B:~$ sudo apt-cache policy nvidia-current
[sudo] password for john:
nvidia-current:
Installed: 304.37-0ubuntu1~precise~xu
Candidate: 304.37-0ubuntu1~precise~xu
Version table:
*** 304.37-0ubuntu1~precise~xu
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-sw...pdates/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
295.40-0ubuntu1.1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/restricted
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/restricte
295.40-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/restricted amd64 Packages
john@john-N68S3B:~$
What are next steps?
John
Oh, but I'm not using nvidia drivers, either.
I know in fedora, if the akmod method of adding the nvidia drivers is used instead of kmod, and they're late with an update of the video drivers, rebooting to an older kernel will proceed to have akmod wreck the ramdisk file for that kernel, too. But since I don't use the nvidia drivers, I don't know if Ubuntu even has the kmod/akmod methods.
I know in fedora, if the akmod method of adding the nvidia drivers is used instead of kmod, and they're late with an update of the video drivers, rebooting to an older kernel will proceed to have akmod wreck the ramdisk file for that kernel, too. But since I don't use the nvidia drivers, I don't know if Ubuntu even has the kmod/akmod methods.
ASKER
Thank you for your replies. PC in question is the one my secretary uses. Having it boot correctly is very important, especially when I am traveling. My scientific consulting business is truly very small business.
John
John
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I searched for nVidia linux 64 drivers and found nvidia web page with the details.
John
John
I haven't rebooted since the last update, so thanks for the heads up.