Latest security update breaks nvidia kernel module

Thanks for your report!

To help diagnose this problem further, can you attach the output from the following commands:

  dmesg
  md5sum /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
  dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic nvidia-glx |cat
  ls -l /usr/lib | grep -i nvidia

Seems that the nvidia module is not present:

md5sum: /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko: No such file or directory

There are these nvidia modules installed:
/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko

#modprobe nvidia
#dmesg
[17197387.408000] nvidia: Unknown symbol init_module
[17197387.408000] nvidia: Unknown symbol cleanup_module

Re-installing modules and re-booting the system helped. Now the modules are installed:

#dmesg
[17179586.232000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006

#lsmod
nvidia 4554836 12
agpgart 34888 2 nvidia,amd64_agp
i2c_core 23424 3 i2c_ec,nvidia,i2c_nforce2

#md5sum /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko
93001041f9c4fccc75279b72b5fdfbdc /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko

Ville:
Was the problem resolved? If so could you change the Status of this bug report to Rejected?

Yes, this was resolved by re-installing and rebooting the system.

It seems that I don't have a permission to change the status, but maybe someone who has can change it.

Ville

Thanks for following up Ville.

Closing this bug per last comment.