Cinnamon just crashed. Currently running in fallback mode

[JGitHub01]

 * Cinnamon version (cinnamon --version)
 * Distribution - (Mint 17.2, Arch, Fedora 25, etc...)
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used
 * 32 or 64 bit
 * Attach /home/<username>/.xsession-errors, or /var/log/syslog

Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 32-bit
Linux Kernel: 4.15.0-33-generic
Graphics: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 140M]
Graphics Driver: nvidia-340 Version 340.104-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Issue
Cinnamon failed to start as the title message indicates

Steps to reproduce
It happened after my recent system update from Update Manager.

crash.tar.gz

Expected behaviour

Other information

[leigh123linux]

Your driver isn't working

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `cinnamon --replace --replace'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xb765736a in __GI_strstr (haystack_start=0x0, needle_start=0xb7edebb9 "llvmpipe") at strstr.c:63
63	strstr.c: No such file or directory.

Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G86M [Quadro NVS 140M] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0429
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nvidia,vesa,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev)
           Resolution: 1280x800@0.00hz
           **GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A**

[JGitHub01]

How do I fix it? The driver is what's recommended in Driver Manager. Is it not supported any more by the latest update in Linux Mint 18.3?

Are there any updated packages that I need to revert back? It worked fine before. Thanks.

[leigh123linux]

I know this sounds rough, your issue isn't related to the cinnamon source code so I don't care.

Either report the issue against the nvidia driver at launchpad or

https://github.com/linuxmint/mintdrivers

Maybe asking on mint forum will yield a solution.

[clefebvre]

@JGitHub01 you can roll back to kernel series 4.4.

Ubuntu only supports security updates for 4.4 and HWE (which is currently 4.15) and afaik NVIDIA stopped supporting their 340 driver so it won't work with 4.15.

[leigh123linux]

@clefebvre 340.107 should work fine with 4.15 kernel, I'm pretty sure it's working fine with 4.17 on fedora 28 without additional patching.

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1036391

I see it was ubuntu who stopped the support for xenial not nvidia

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=nvidia-340

[leigh123linux]

TBH there is no reason why mint-18 users couldn't use the bionic or cosmic nvidia packages as long as they pinned apt to the xenial nvidia-settings package.
The nvidia libs are universal (not compiled for the distro) and dkms will do the reset.

[JGitHub01]

@leigh123linux @clefebvre
Thank you guys. I reverted the kernel back to 4.13.0-41 and the problem goes away. I guess my nvidia packages are probably pinned to cosmic as @leigh123linux suggested. I will try to see if I can change it later and report back if it works.

[jaszhix]

The PPA has 340.107: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[JGitHub01]

I updated my nvidia driver from 340.104 to 340.107. It now works well with the latest Linux Mint 18.3 kernel 4.15.0-33. I followed the instruction on this link for the installation:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/12

Thanks @jaszhix @leigh123linux

[witkacy26]

I have the same result on generic xen vm driver (see below), so I wouldn't say it's NVidia driver problem. Also I'm testing and comparing different Desktop Environments and others works well. It seems the problem is specific to Cinamon Desktop. I've installed it on fresh installed system, to avoid any interference. Please let me know if you need more information.

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu_bionic 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$lshw
        *-display UNCLAIMED
             description: VGA compatible controller
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: vga_controller bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:f1000000-f17fffff memory:c0000-dffff