Nvidia module 340.65 fails to compile on Fedora 21 with Kernel 3.19 [no secure boot] #659

yourkidding · 2015-05-03T19:43:04Z

Hello everyone!!

This issue is slightly driving me insane. But first things first: I am not a newbee to fedora, experimented with it since f18 and using f21 right now to finally get rid of windows yeahy. I am NOT a computer scientist, just a casual linux user understanding bash and stuff. So usually I search for a solution online (or ask a friend). This time the only answer I got was "post it online". So I am here, looking for help :)

Thank you all in advance!!!!!!!!

system:
Fedora 21
MSI Notebook A6203 [without secure boot]
Intel Core i3-370M
Nvidia Geforce 310M / 1GB DDR3

This issue doesn't seam to be like #656 or #632, although it is about the same kernel-version.

What I did to get my graphics card running:

I followed all steps on the bumblebee site for fedora and installed the NVIDIA proprietary drivers with a specific version, based on my graphics card "bumblebee-nvidia-340.65".
rebooted
run glxspheres

[noway@localhost ~] $ optirun glxspheres
[ 2306.251504] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path
/var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[ 2306.251612] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?
sudo bumblebee-nvidia --debug
--force compile selected via /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/compile-nvidia-driver
--debug mode selected.
Building NVIDIA video drivers: Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.65
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 >
340.65.................................................................................................................................................
.............................................................................

ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.

ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on
fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com.
```
             [FAILED]
```
On behalf of a friend I checked and installed (32 + 64 bit): kernel-tools, kernel-tools-libs, kernel-tools-libs-devel, dkms-2.2.0.3-30.git.7c3e7c5.fc21.noarch (-> was already installed).
I removed bumblebee and reinstalled, rebooted ... and it still didn't work... so our guess was, it issue might be solved in a few days with another update. We waited for three weeks to post it on github.
additional info:

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64 Complete rework of building #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 19:51:56 UTC 2015
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and the log file: http://pastebin.com/JctguGdM

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gsgatlin · 2015-05-03T19:50:42Z

@yourkidding I think the problem here is the version of bumblebee-nvidia.
it should be bumblebee-nvidia-346.47-1.fc21.x86_64. So yum update or dnf update to that version. Then reboot.

yourkidding · 2015-05-03T21:36:59Z

yum-updated to bumblebee-nvidia-346.47-1.fc21.x86_64, rebooted and got the same issue:

#optirun glxspheres
[ 277.964715] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run
/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[ 277.964770] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

gsgatlin · 2015-05-03T22:02:24Z

ok. Can you paste your logs to pastebin or similar site? and post the links here.

Did it ever work or is this a recent problem?

yourkidding · 2015-05-03T22:14:11Z

Install log with bumblebee-nvidia-340.65 http://pastebin.com/JctguGdM
-> my problem in line 112: ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
(I also updated the initial post with this link)

@gsgatlin: It worked in f18 and also about a week ago in windows7 (dual boot)
Install log with bumblebee-nvidia-346.47-1.fc21.x86_64 http://pastebin.com/se7UBaVa
-> the second log file tells to install the to the 340.XX legacy driver

gsgatlin · 2015-05-03T22:31:00Z

Ok. Try this...

Go to

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/81761/en-us

and download

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76.run

as root

mv /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.47.run

somewhere else like /root/

Then copy

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76.run

to

/etc/sysconfig/nvidia/

Then reboot and see if that works any better. Rebooting may not be required since the module didn't load but better to be on the safe side.

yourkidding · 2015-05-03T23:05:52Z

wow. something else happened! this seems to be a step in the right direction

$optirun glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":8".
ERROR (603): Could not obtain RGB visual with requested properties

Should I remove everything and start it all again?
AND: What did I do wrong in the first place? Just messed up driver versions by not removing everything properly?

gsgatlin · 2015-05-03T23:13:38Z

Its not that you did anything wrong. If it can be made to work the bumblebee-nvidia package will have be changed. But lets see if it can actually be made to work before making changes like creating another yum repo.

Can you post the logs

/var/log/messages

/var/log/Xorg.8.log

and the output from

bumblebee-nvidia --check

On pastebin or similar site after trying to run the demo program with optirun.

does changing selinux from

enforcing to permissive or disabled help? Is the package "kernel-devel" installed?

gsgatlin · 2015-05-03T23:16:00Z

Oh,, also, can you provide the output from

lspci | grep VGA

Thanks,

yourkidding · 2015-05-04T21:07:46Z

the package kernel-devel is installed.

/var/log/messages http://pastebin.com/JCJE3wP0

/var/log/Xorg.8.log http://pastebin.com/TR1zhASF

bumblebee-nvidia --check http://pastebin.com/vCJXn6ZL

lspci | grep VGA http://pastebin.com/Kw4ypkhd

And woohooo! I booted with Selinux disabled and optirun glxspheres worked!! Thank you so much! Could this have been the cause after all?

-> And can I make it work without permanently disabling Selinux?

gsgatlin · 2015-05-05T17:20:53Z

Hello. Sorry I did not get back to you until today. I was sick yesterday...

So the problem here is that I did not take into account laptops that do not work with 346.47 driver.

Your idea to try an older version was along the correct path. But version 340.65 probably cannot be made to work with newer kernels. Which is the reason why nvidia makes legacy drivers on their downloads page.

In the past, other people have asked that I make a "Short Lived Branch version" of my drivers package.

That did not work out too well since it was hard for me to keep up with such things. I just always used the "Long Lived Branch version" on my own laptops.

So maybe a better solution would be to have an "unmanaged" version. It would include the shell script and systemd unit files. and selinux policy module. But it would be up to the end users to download the correct "blob" and place it into /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/ themselves. For you that would mean having to download

"Latest Legacy GPU version (340.xx series)"

and then place it there yourself.

Do you think that solution would work for you?

As for the selinux errrors, it would be difficult for me to troubleshoot that. So for now I would suggest using selinux in permissive mode. If that doesn't work I would suggest disabling selinux for now.

It may be that the selinux module I made for fedora 22 will help. I can include that in my "unmanaged" bumblebee-nvidia assuming that idea would work for you. Then you could test it and see if there is any improvement. selinux has been making things hard for bumblebee lately. I think they are adding a lot of new policies that keep interfering with bumblebee's normal operations.

Let me know what you think about a "unmanaged" version of bumblebee-nvidia?

Also, I probably cannot get to making that unmanaged version for a few days. Today I have to push out an update to VirtualGL and I have to get it done before the outage starts in the fedora build system later today if possible.

Thanks.

yourkidding · 2015-05-06T20:54:00Z

Thanks for your help!!

And having unmanaged version would be fine! So every owner of a legacy nvidia card could look for a matching driver without worrying about newer kernel modules.

I dont know if you got my point. my english may be not the best ^^ but I am 100 % for an unmanaged version.

gsgatlin · 2015-05-15T20:53:26Z

Hello. I apologize for the delay in getting to this.

So you can

yum remove bumblebee-nvidia

yum remove bumblebee-nonfree-release

yum --nogpgcheck install http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/bumblebee-nonfree-unmanaged/fedora21/noarch/bumblebee-nonfree-unmanaged-release-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

yum install bumblebee-nvidia

Then cp the proper blob to
/etc/sysconfig/nvidia/

Then reboot.

Let me know if that worked for you?

yourkidding · 2015-06-07T18:48:36Z

sudo yum -y install bumblebee-nvidia
Geladene Plugins: langpacks
Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst
--> Transaktionsprüfung wird ausgeführt
---> Paket bumblebee-nvidia.noarch 0:1.0-2.fc21 markiert, um installiert zu werden
--> Abhängigkeit bumblebee wird für Paket bumblebee-nvidia-1.0-2.fc21.noarch verarbeitet
--> Abhängigkeitsauflösung beendet
Fehler: Paket: bumblebee-nvidia-1.0-2.fc21.noarch (bumblebee-nonfree-unmanaged)
Benötigt: bumblebee
Sie können versuchen, mit --skip-broken das Problem zu umgehen.

translation

--> paket bumblebee needed

doesn't it recognize the nonfree version? what did I do wrong?

Also: As I updated the kernel, optirun didnt work anymore. Should I try to use F22 now?

gsgatlin · 2015-06-07T23:23:37Z

On a fresh fedora 21 install:

[root@localhost ~]# yum -y --nogpgcheck install http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/bumblebee/fedora21/noarch/bumblebee-release-1.2-1.noarch.rpm ; yum -y --nogpgcheck install http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/bumblebee-nonfree-unmanaged/fedora21/noarch/bumblebee-nonfree-unmanaged-release-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

[root@localhost ~]# yum remove bumblebee-nonfree-release

[root@localhost ~]# yum install bumblebee-nvidia bbswitch primus kernel-devel

http://pastebin.com/8TdNf0ju

After its finished download a appropriate .run file and place it into /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/

And then reboot.

So It looks like maybe you are missing the bumblebee repo. Since yum can't find bumblebee.

It is installed via

yum -y --nogpgcheck install http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/yum/itecs/public/bumblebee/fedora21/noarch/bumblebee-release-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

It should work for both fedora 21 and fedora 22. I tested it on a spare laptop I own just now with fedora 21 and its working. But I downloaded a different version then you since I can't use the legacy drivers.
(346.72 is what I tested it with)

You may wish to try yum clean all

to clean out any metadata.

yourkidding · 2015-06-08T14:23:43Z

Thanks for your help so far, but again it is not working. I believe it was the last kernel update (f21), that broke the fixed situation. I can't remember changing something else, influencing the system.

updated the system
set SELINUX to permissive mode
I tried to use the unmanaged version on a fresh f22 install, following your instructions
moved the .run file to /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/ (for me, it was NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76.run)
installed 'kernel-devel'

$ optirun glxspheres64
[  465.449192] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[  465.449261] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

The logs
/var/log/messages http://pastebin.com/A45BPYx9

/var/log/Xorg.8.log -> empty file

bumblebee-nvidia --check http://pastebin.com/9RykjVyR

lspci | grep VGA http://pastebin.com/aPDSft86

gsgatlin · 2015-06-08T14:28:19Z

What happens if you run

bumblebee-nvidia --debug

as root or with sudo? Does it compile ok?

yourkidding · 2015-06-08T19:06:11Z

It fails to compile. logfile /var/log/nvidia-installer.log pasted here http://pastebin.com/1tap75f6

$ sudo bumblebee-nvidia --debug
[sudo] password for noway: 
--force compile selected via /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/compile-nvidia-driver
--debug mode selected.
Building NVIDIA video drivers: Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 340.76.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.


ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file
       '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions
       on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
       driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

                   [FAILED]

gsgatlin · 2015-06-08T20:49:42Z

I think the problem here is that the .run file you downloaded does not (yet) support the 4.0 kernel in fedora 22/21. So its "NVidia's fault" I guess.

You could try adding this patch:

http://fpaste.org/230141/33795643/

Which I had in the driver package several weeks ago.

or this one:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/813458/linux-4-0-rc1-346-47-build-error-_cr4-functions-fix/

Create a file ending in .patch (like kernel4.patch) and paste the contents into that file. Then copy the kernel4.patch file into /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/

Then re-run the script again with --debug and see if that helped.

The second patch from devtalk.nvidia.com may need to be altered slightly since the patch uses -p1 in the script and the patch on the forums assumes -p0.

Sorry I can't be much more help then that since I don't own hardware old enough to require that version of the driver. (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76.run) So I would have no way to test whether or not it worked.

If you have trouble making the patch from the devtalk forum work and the first patch doesn't work I could try to reformat it for your situation. Let us know if that helped to get it to compile.

yourkidding · 2015-06-08T22:14:38Z

It totally worked this time! thank you, AGAIN!

used the first patch
compiled it
tested it -> works like a charm

bumblebee-nvidia --debug
--force compile selected via /etc/sysconfig/nvidia/compile-nvidia-driver
--debug mode selected.
Building NVIDIA video drivers: Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.76
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 340.76.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
(Patch is indented 4 spaces.)
patching file kernel/nv-pat.c
                   [  OK  ]

gsgatlin · 2015-06-08T23:06:20Z

Cool. Glad its working. I suspect that the next time a new legacy driver for "Latest Legacy GPU version (340.xx series)" comes out it will probably work in kernel 4.0 without needing a patch.

ArchangeGabriel · 2015-12-27T21:33:38Z

OK, closing since this is solved.

yourkidding changed the title ~~Nvidia module 340.65 fails to compile on Fedora 21 with Kernel 3.19~~ Nvidia module 340.65 fails to compile on Fedora 21 with Kernel 3.19 [no secure boot] May 3, 2015

ArchangeGabriel closed this as completed Dec 27, 2015

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What I did to get my graphics card running:

and the log file: http://pastebin.com/JctguGdM

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