RHEL3 Error w/ Driver 1.0.9755

[dfrandin]

I have a system running RHEL3, and the 1.0-9746 driver. The system had been working fine, however, just after shutting the system down and adding an additional data drive, upon boot-up, the system would boot up the Nvidia logo, then go into a loop, finally warning about the X-server being unable to start. While troubleshooting the system, and several further reboots, the system would go into an endless logo loop, such that I had to power cycle the system. I finally got the system to boot into runlevel 3 vs 5, and while checking out the Nvidia website, I noticed that there had been a new version release, ie: 1.0-9755. I downloaded it and ran the installer with zero errors, and upon doing a startx, I now never see an nvidia logo, just a black screen, with the need to powercycle the system to recover. The card in use is a Nvidia Quadro FX 3000 (NV35GL). The only work done on the system at the time this problem began was adding a secondary data drive into the scsi chain.. Any ideas where to look on this??

Thanks
Dave Frandin
daveDOTfrandinATnvDOTdoeDOTgov

[netllama]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678

[whig]

Please follow the sticky bug/problem reporting messages on this forum, eg the ones that say "please read". They say how to generate a useful bug report.

[dfrandin]

Further checking of the system indicated that the root partition of the system was completely out of space at the time I ran the .run installer for 1.0-9755. Since then I've moved data off the root partition to another drive, bringing the root partition down to 11% in use. I reran the 1.0-9755 installer after freeing space on the root partition, and I now get a black screen (vs the nvidia logo), and most interestingly, I cannot ping/ssh to the affected machine during this time, to run/obtain the nvidia-bug-report.sh. The networking on the system is normal prior to running startx -- -logverbose 6
Once I reboot the machine to runlevel 3, I then ran the nvidia-bug-report.sh and the created report is attached, plus the nvidia-installer.log..

Dave Frandin
daveDOTfrandinATnvDOTdoeDOTgov

[netllama]

According to the bug report, you're using 1.0-9629, not 1.0-9755. You should also verify that you're using the most recent BIOS.

[dfrandin]

Update: Was finally able to get a bug-report with X running.. Attached is the nvidia-bug-report. Is it possible to completely uninstall the driver, then do a clean install of it, at the current version? I suspect since one of the several installs I did was during the root volume being out of disk space, I may have something corrupt with the installed driver, and is not being overwritten when I reinstall the driver...

[netllama]

Running 'nvidia-installer --uninstall' will uninstall the driver.

[dfrandin]

Update: An uninstall did not work.. I wound up reimaging the machine with an Acronis TrueImage image from a week or so previous, which fixed the video problem.

Thanks for the help..
Dave Frandin