sebi2
August 26th, 2014, 11:00 AM
I have upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04. Afterwards, xserver couldn't start. I have downloaded the latest nvidia drivers from http://[1]: http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/340.32/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.32.run&lang=us&type=geforcem and rebooted.
GRUB now has the following entries:
*Ubuntu
Advanced options for Ubuntu
Memory test (memtest86+)
Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
When selecting "Advanced options for Ubuntu" the following entries are displayed:
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-34-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-34-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-54-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-54-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-47-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-47-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-46-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-46-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-44-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-44-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-42-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-42-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-41-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-41-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-40-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-40-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-23-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-23-generic (recovery mode)
After, installing the drivers, however, selecting any non recovery entry would lead to a black screen with a blinking cursor. After booting into recovery mode I have deleted all nvidia drivers by running:
sudo ./usr/bin/nvidia-installer --uninstall
Now I could again boot from any kernel without GUI enabled. I've tried starting xserver from the command line by running:
startx
An error related to ~/.XAuthority has occured. Running the command again as root threw the error:
modprobe error could not insert 'nvidia': unknown symbol in module
Next, I tried reinstalling xserver:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
The command was run successfully but I'm now getting the following errors when attempting to **startx**:
(EE) module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (8)
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
Why does this occur?
I have installed nvidia-current-updates:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
and ran startx again. The output was:
xauthL: timeout in locking authority file ~/.Xauthority
Afterwards, the screen kept flashing. I had to jump into terminal mode. The output is as follows:
waiting for X server to accept connections
and a screen of lines:
No protocol specified
After removing the .Xauthority file and running startx the following error is shown:
(EE) module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (8)
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
GRUB now has the following entries:
*Ubuntu
Advanced options for Ubuntu
Memory test (memtest86+)
Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)
When selecting "Advanced options for Ubuntu" the following entries are displayed:
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-34-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-34-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-54-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-54-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-47-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-47-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-46-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-46-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-44-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-44-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-42-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-42-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-41-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-41-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-40-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-40-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-23-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-23-generic (recovery mode)
After, installing the drivers, however, selecting any non recovery entry would lead to a black screen with a blinking cursor. After booting into recovery mode I have deleted all nvidia drivers by running:
sudo ./usr/bin/nvidia-installer --uninstall
Now I could again boot from any kernel without GUI enabled. I've tried starting xserver from the command line by running:
startx
An error related to ~/.XAuthority has occured. Running the command again as root threw the error:
modprobe error could not insert 'nvidia': unknown symbol in module
Next, I tried reinstalling xserver:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
The command was run successfully but I'm now getting the following errors when attempting to **startx**:
(EE) module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (8)
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
Why does this occur?
I have installed nvidia-current-updates:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
and ran startx again. The output was:
xauthL: timeout in locking authority file ~/.Xauthority
Afterwards, the screen kept flashing. I had to jump into terminal mode. The output is as follows:
waiting for X server to accept connections
and a screen of lines:
No protocol specified
After removing the .Xauthority file and running startx the following error is shown:
(EE) module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (8)
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.