LightDM is crashing (nvidia Module is failing on HDMI)

[vokiel]

After a few updates, my SteamOS box isn't in working order. It boots up, then LightDM crashes, then the idiotic autorepair starts, does a few random things I have no clue about, reboots and here we go again.

Seriously how is this script supposed to help? Anyway:

The xorg log: http://pastebin.com/fTRD6ct1
The dmesg relevant info: http://pastebin.com/xkgD6iNW

Not sure why I got the nvidia driver with the last update TBH, I had a working system with Nouveau.

Anything I can do that doesn't involve re-installing everything? I'm still looking

[NeptNutz]

Maybe you can flip some of these commands around and blacklist nvidia instead?

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/540743757298243719/

[vokiel]

Yes maybe I can, or I could just try

dkms remove $module_name/$module_version --all

and not build it/install it, but before I experiment with a system I'm not entirely familiar with (I'm a gentoo/openrc type), I'm trying to find something that looks like a better solution.

[ProfessorKaos64]

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/wiki/Troubleshooting#what-to-do-if-you-cannot-start-steamos

There are also recent tickets on github.

[vokiel]

If I have to re-image the system, I'll trash the hole thing and I'll put Gentoo instead. This is such a painful system to update I'd rather deal with portage than see another clumsy script like autorepair.

[vokiel]

Well none of this is of any help... Xorg won't start, so I think I'm done here.

[ProfessorKaos64]

Ok, sorry to see you leave. Good luck. To be honest, this only happened to me once. I'd rather have that over Portage any day. I'm not a huge FreeBSD guy I suppose

[Teddy]

Same as in the other thread, check this on Github. This thread has received some good community feedback. I hope you're familiar enough with Linux to pull this off.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/546

[vokiel]

No it isn't the same, my system has been completely trashed and with this Debian/systemD crap I can't diagnose anything effectively. I just can't login onto the desktop, I get the debian white screen of death with the Oh No! Message. Go figure...

Windows couldn't have felt better right.

[vokiel]

Some more details I've got: (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument

It's great, anyway thanks for trying to help, I appreciate the efforts, but as I wrote earlier I think I'm done with SteamOS.