Arch Linux

is a know bug in nvidia 295.20. What can you do is to forward this to nvidia like all the others.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174049

Quote from nvnews forum:

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It seems to be caused by old cache files in ~/.nv/GLCache .. removing or renaming that directory fixes it.
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For me this solved the problem for a moment but a bit later it reappeared.

Same problem here, but removing/renaming ~/.nv/GLCache does not fix the problem at all.

Seeing this too. But the weird part is that it crashes on my desktop computer (Nvidia GT210 PCI express card), but not on my laptop (GeForce 7000M chipset).

So, laptop : geforce 7000M + nvidia 295.20 + gnome shell 3.2 = ok.
Desktop : GT210 + nvidia 295.20 + gnome shell 3.2 = crash.

Only nouveau works pretty quick on my desktop :/

Affects me too, I can confirm this with my geforce gtx 275

deleteing ~/.nv didnt help

The same thing on hp dv5 with nvidia GT96 (GeForce 9600M GT).
And writing in the search field reloads gnome with some letters, like "o", not all letters.
Architecture: i686

This problem affects me too, please set to confirmed: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405087

Those looking to downgrade, here is the link for .tar.xz: http://mirrors.sohu.com/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/

I can confirm the problem with my 8800GT. Downgrading to nvidia-290 solved the problem.

I've downgraded and added the following to /etc/pacman.conf:
IgnorePkg = nvidia nvidia-utils
Please don't close this ticket until upgraded packages which fix the issue are pushed to the main repos so that those of us watching this bug will be notified that it's time to update. Thanks!

I can confirm downgrading nvidia and nvidia-utils is a working workaround.

nvidia-295.20

work: NVIDIA GT218 [Quadro NVS 300] + latest gnome 3 WORKS
home: NVIDIA 8800GT + latest gnome 3 is CRASHING

For me, this bug manifests itself when using XBMC. Whenever a video finishes playing, XBMC (or X) locks up.

The workaround was to downgrade to 290.10-3 and ignore nvidia updates.

Downgrading to 290.10-3 is no longer possible with the just released kernel 2.6.8 (unless you downgrade to the previous kernel, I guess):

[ 560.243808] nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[ 564.246530] nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
[ 587.550190] nvidia: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout

Forced to use 295.20-2 which exhibits an X crash bug.

This is really broken, and regardless of an "upstream bug" this probably shouldn't be closed as it is affecting multiple facets of Arch (e.g. gnome-shell and xbmc and being unable to properly run the current kernel with this driver).

Sorry, when I say "this driver" I mean the workaround version (290.10-3).

you should recompile your own that version against linux 3.2.8

There seems to be a workaround for this.

The problematic file seems to be ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. Deleting this file fixes the issue for a while, but later it appears again. The solution is to empty the file (echo > ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel) and lock it with chattr (sudo chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel). It's probably a good idea to back it up first.

Update: 295.20-3 doesn't seem to fix the issue for me.

Before closing this bug, can we hope that Arch downgrade the package in the repo until the bug is fixed by upstream?
Making the file immutable is a workaround for this specific bug, any threaded usage of OpenGL will trigger the bug, this is not gnome-shell specific.

I confirm that the solution provided by vladev works for me. Thanks !

The solution works for me too. Thank you

Had to apply ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel workaround.

Things are moving a little upstream.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2532350&postcount=8

"NVIDIA internally filed bug 941836 to track this issue."

Looks like it is related to a crash on fork call.

+1 for workaround provided by vladev, it works for me also.

Version 295.20-3 has been released, but it seams it's only compiled against Kernel 3.2.9
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/nvidia&id=54fa181fb4d549d1ebf8ab2db554d20c8736224f

Meanwhile, the workaround presented by @vladev seems to work just fine.

Confirm 295.20-3 with 3.2.9 fixes the XBMC issue I was seeing.

Edit: Spoke too soon, subsequent testing shows I can still produce a crash by playing a movie twice (crashes on stop). I might lodge another bug regarding this as it's not strictly the same issue.

hi,

if i set locale to de_DE@euro (iso8859-15) gnome-shell crashed at startup. dmesg shows "[ 373.697042] gnome-shell[1624]: segfault at c ip b539cea3 sp b2590b8c error 6 in libnvidia-tls.so.295.20[b539c000+3000]"
the error occurs with 295.20-2 as well as 295.20-3. setting locale to utf8 works fine.

same bug?

not sure if this is releated to this bug. but the driver seems to make problems with vbo used in some games, which could not be rendered properly.

Don't say if it related, but with kernel 3.3, no more crashes with nvidia 295.20 ?!