Comment 110 for bug 286424

That worked for me too! Thanks Oranges!

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, jraborg <email address hidden> wrote:

> Review post 80
> "oranges wrote on 2009-10-22: #80
> Greetings, just wanted to let you guys know, I solved this problem by
> doing:
>
> a) sudo nvidia-xconfig <- it should detect the missing "default
> display/screen" entry and create a new file for you to write in.
>
> then do...
>
> b) sudo nvidia-settings and do the usual thing to save your settings.
>
> That's all I did - it worked.
>
> Oranges"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
> Fabian A. Scherschel
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:45 AM
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 286424] Re: nvidia-settings crashes when user clicks Save To
> X Configuration File
>
> I've been following this bug for quite a while and it is pretty clear
> that this is *NOT* a permissions problem. I've always run nvidia-
> settings with gksudo / sudo and the problem was always there. So please
> don't mark as fixed because of permissions.
>
> I have not tested this with the latest Karmic update but the program did
> crash when run with root privileges on a then-uptodate Karmic as late as
> last week.
>
> --
> nvidia-settings crashes when user clicks Save To X Configuration File
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286424
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-settings” source package in Intrepid: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nvidia-settings
>
> Clicking "Save To X Configuration File" causes immediate crash of
> nvidia-settings, after running sudo nvidia-settings to set up dual
> monitors using TwinView.
>
> Not sure if this is due to permissions related to the new X config
> scheme (i.e. no longer using xorg.conf for display config)? I am also
> confused as to why the repo driver is 177.80, but the repo nvidia-
> settings is 177.78?
>
>
> Error msg: nvidia settings crashed with SIGSEGV in
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID()
>
> System: Ubuntu Intrepid Beta 8.10, Intel P4 3.0 (hyperthreaded).
> 2.6.27-7 kernel. Standard closed-source Nvidia 177 driver from Intrepid
> repos, on GeForce 9500GT, installed using Hardware Drivers panel
> (jockey).
>
> Installed Nvidia packages are:
> 177.78-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-settings )
> 177.80-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-glx-177 )
> 177.80-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-177-kernel-source )
> 177.80-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-177-modaliases )
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: nvidia-settings 177.78-0ubuntu2
> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> ProcCmdline: nvidia-settings
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
> g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> Title: nvidia-settings crashed with SIGSEGV in
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
> UserGroups:
>
> --
> nvidia-settings crashes when user clicks Save To X Configuration File
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286424
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-settings” source package in Intrepid: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nvidia-settings
>
> ***PLEASE***
> Do not comment on this bug unless you are actively working on it, and/or
> unless you've read *all* comments and have determined that your information
> is genuinely new and useful.
>
> In order for a developer to take the time to actually fix this bug, we all
> need to take care to keep the bug report comments focused and
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>
> Workarounds are known (comment #80, comment #64).
> ***Thank you***
>
> Clicking "Save To X Configuration File" causes immediate crash of
> nvidia-settings, after running sudo nvidia-settings to set up dual monitors
> using TwinView.
>
> Not sure if this is due to permissions related to the new X config scheme
> (i.e. no longer using xorg.conf for display config)? I am also confused as
> to why the repo driver is 177.80, but the repo nvidia-settings is 177.78?
>
> Error msg: nvidia settings crashed with SIGSEGV in
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID()
>
> System: Ubuntu Intrepid Beta 8.10, Intel P4 3.0 (hyperthreaded). 2.6.27-7
> kernel. Standard closed-source Nvidia 177 driver from Intrepid repos, on
> GeForce 9500GT, installed using Hardware Drivers panel (jockey).
>
> Installed Nvidia packages are:
> 177.78-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-settings )
> 177.80-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-glx-177 )
> 177.80-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-177-kernel-source )
> 177.80-0ubuntu2 ( nvidia-177-modaliases )
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: nvidia-settings 177.78-0ubuntu2
> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> ProcCmdline: nvidia-settings
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> ?? ()
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID ()
> g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> Title: nvidia-settings crashed with SIGSEGV in
> g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
> UserGroups:
>
>
>

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