<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div> <div>Hello Felix,</div> <div> </div> <div>thanks for your posting.</div> <div> </div> <div>The upgrade was already finished. The open source driver nouveau does not seem to support the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 any more. I installed the non-free nvidia driver as well but selected the nvidia-legacy-304xx with 'update-alternatives --config nvidia'. Your hint about the old 3.2er kernel seemed to be significantly to me. I removed all the old kernel fragments for the kernels 2.6 and 3.2 that still were installed on Debian stretch (why this was not done with 'apt-get dist-upgrade'???). Then I reinstalled most of the nvidia-legacy-304xx packages to have their scripts running once more. All without success! Here are the related packages that are currenty installed on my system:</div> <div> </div> <div>uli:~# dpkg -l | awk '{ print $1 " " $2 " " $3;}' | egrep -i '(linux)|(glx)|(drm)|(nvidia)|(nouveau)'<br/> ii console-setup-linux 1.164<br/> ii doc-linux-de 2003.10-5<br/> ii doc-linux-text 2008.08-1<br/> ii firmware-linux-free 3.4<br/> ii fonts-linuxlibertine 5.3.0-2<br/> ii glx-alternative-mesa 0.7.4<br/> ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.7.4<br/> ii glx-diversions 0.7.4<br/> ii libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 2.4.74-1<br/> ii libdrm-intel1:i386 2.4.74-1<br/> ii libdrm-nouveau2:i386 2.4.74-1<br/> ii libdrm-radeon1:i386 2.4.74-1<br/> ii libdrm2:i386 2.4.74-1<br/> rc libegl1-nvidia:i386 340.65-2<br/> ii libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 13.0.6-1+b2<br/> ii libgl1-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii libnvidia-compiler:i386 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii libnvidia-eglcore:i386 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii libnvidia-fatbinaryloader:i386 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cfg1:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii libnvidia-legacy-304xx-compiler:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii libnvidia-legacy-304xx-cuda1:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii libnvidia-legacy-304xx-glcore:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii libnvidia-legacy-304xx-ml1:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii libnvidia-ml1:i386 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler:i386 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii libselinux1:i386 2.6-3+b1<br/> ii libswt-glx-gtk-3-jni 3.8.2-3<br/> ii libva-drm1:i386 1.7.3-2<br/> ii libva-glx1:i386 1.7.3-2<br/> ii libxcb-glx0:i386 1.12-1<br/> rc libxvmcnvidia1:i386 304.125-1<br/> ii linux-base 4.5<br/> ii linux-compiler-gcc-6-x86 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-4.9.0-3-686 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-4.9.0-3-686-pae 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-4.9.0-3-all 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-4.9.0-3-all-i386 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common-rt 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-4.9.0-3-rt-686-pae 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-headers-686-pae 4.9+80+deb9u1<br/> ii linux-image-4.9.0-3-686 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-image-4.9.0-3-686-dbg 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-image-4.9.0-3-686-pae 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-image-4.9.0-3-686-pae-dbg 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-image-4.9.0-3-rt-686-pae 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-image-4.9.0-3-rt-686-pae-dbg 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-kbuild-4.9 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-libc-dev:i386 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> rc linux-sound-base 1.0.23+dfsg-2<br/> ii linux-source 4.9+80+deb9u1<br/> ii linux-source-4.9 4.9.30-2+deb9u5<br/> ii linux-wlan-ng 0.2.9+dfsg-5<br/> ii linux-wlan-ng-doc 0.2.9+dfsg-5<br/> ii linux-wlan-ng-firmware 0.2.9+dfsg-5<br/> ii nvidia-alternative 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-detect 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20151021+4<br/> ii nvidia-kernel-common 20151021+4<br/> ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-kernel-support 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-bin 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver-libs:i386 304.135-2<br/> rc nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-3.2.0-4-686-pae 304.135-2+3.2.65-1+deb7u2<br/> rc nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-4.9.0-3-686-pae 304.135-2+4.9.30-2+deb9u3<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-source 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-support 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-opencl-icd:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-smi 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver:i386 304.135-2<br/> ii nvidia-legacy-check 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-modprobe 375.26-1<br/> ii nvidia-opencl-common 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-opencl-icd:i386 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-persistenced 375.26-2<br/> ii nvidia-settings-legacy-304xx 304.134-1<br/> ii nvidia-smi 375.66-2~deb9u1<br/> ii nvidia-support 20151021+4<br/> ii nvidia-xconfig 375.26-1<br/> ii update-glx 0.7.4<br/> ii util-linux 2.29.2-1<br/> ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.13-3<br/> ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx 304.135-2<br/> uli:~#</div> <div> <div> </div> <div>Do you have any further idea how I should proceed? What I don't understand: If the X server silently dies, why I don't get any core file? The ulimit has been set to unlimited for core files and the (kernel-)core pattern has been set to /tmp/core ... were the user should have write permission ...?!? Mmmm ... would it make sense to wrap the start of the X server with strace/valgrind or something like that?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks and regards,</div> <div>Andreas</div> <div> </div> <div name="quote" style="margin:10px 5px 5px 10px; padding: 10px 0 10px 10px; border-left:2px solid #C3D9E5; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 02. Oktober 2017 um 21:34 Uhr<br/> <b>Von:</b> "Felix Miata" <mrmazda@earthlink.net><br/> <b>An:</b> xorg@lists.x.org<br/> <b>Betreff:</b> Re: X does not start any more since upgrading to Debian 9.1 with NVIDIA GeForce 7100</div> <div name="quoted-content">"Andreas Köhler" composed on 2017-10-02 19:39 (UTC+0200):<br/> <br/> > Hello @xorg mailing list,<br/> > I upgraded from Debian 8.x to 9.1 some days ago and now X does not start any<br/> > more. ...<br/> > [ 462.623] Current Operating System: Linux uli 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian<br/> > 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 i686<br/> > [ 462.623] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae<br/> > root=UUID=30333d3d-39dc-4635-ab28-81c8eed4a21b ro<br/> ...<br/> > Since I cannot see any error it is really hard to understand what going wrong<br/> > here. Does anybody have a hint for me?<br/> > Much thanks and regards,<br/> <br/> Start by uninstalling the NVidia driver, removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and<br/> finishing the upgrade. Install the NVidia driver only if you are not pleased<br/> with the default modesetting driver's behavior, and you find the alternative<br/> Nouveau driver isn't adequate either. 3.2 is Wheezy's kernel. The Stretch kernel<br/> is 4.9.<br/> --<br/> "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you<br/> get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation)<br/> <br/> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!<br/> <br/> Felix Miata *** <a href="http://fm.no-ip.com/" target="_blank">http://fm.no-ip.com/</a><br/> _______________________________________________<br/> xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support<br/> Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a><br/> Info: <a href="https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg" target="_blank">https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a><br/> Your subscription address: %(user_address)s</div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>