CentOS - Feb 2018 - Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS

I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS.

We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed
hardware is:

Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440
PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020

Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The
system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still get
into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you to
a command prompt.

If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually
fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that
sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than
not, it won't.

Not sure where to go with this.

Any suggestions?

FW

I think that it is more about the card than the kernel. You may try to install
different card to test. I would report that to Nvidia. You may also try how it
works in CentOS 7. Time to move on? I also use 6.9 but in plain configuration.


Mikhail Utin


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Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:40
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Subject: [CentOS] Issues with NVidia video driver and CentOS

I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS.

We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed
hardware is:

Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440
PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020

Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The
system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still get
into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you to
a command prompt.

If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually
fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that
sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than
not, it won't.

Not sure where to go with this.

Any suggestions?

FW
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On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Felipe Westfields <
felipe.westfields at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS.
>
> We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed
> hardware is:
>
> Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440
> PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020
>
> Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The
> system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can still get
> into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2 gets you
to
> a command prompt.
>
> If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is usually
> fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update, that
> sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely than
> not, it won't.
>
> Not sure where to go with this.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> FW
> _______________________________________________
>
Which version of the driver? How did you install it?

If you're not already using it, I heartily recommend using the ELRepo
repository, http://elrepo.org/tiki/. We have several dozen CO 6.9 machines
with various Nvidia cards and except for a recent version that had an issue
with DVI connections (not the repository's fault), we haven't had any
problems.

-- 
Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu

We do have the elrepo drivers installed. Maybe part of the problem is also
that we're using an IOgear KVM switch?

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at
cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Felipe Westfields <
> felipe.westfields at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm having issues with a quad video card on CentOS.
> >
> > We have several systems on CentOS 6.8 and CentOS 6.9. The installed
> > hardware is:
> >
> > Video card - Nvidia NVS quadro 440
> > PC - Dell OptiPlex 9020
> >
> > Whenever you update the kernel, it kills the graphical interface. The
> > system appears to lock up and freeze during a reboot, but you can
still
> get
> > into it with SSH, or, if you're at the console, control-alt-F2
gets you
> to
> > a command prompt.
> >
> > If you exclude the kernel update when applying yum update, it is
usually
> > fine. If the kernel update is applied, and you roll back the update,
that
> > sometimes gets you back into the graphical console, but more likely
than
> > not, it won't.
> >
> > Not sure where to go with this.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > FW
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
> Which version of the driver? How did you install it?
>
> If you're not already using it, I heartily recommend using the ELRepo
> repository, http://elrepo.org/tiki/. We have several dozen CO 6.9 machines
> with various Nvidia cards and except for a recent version that had an issue
> with DVI connections (not the repository's fault), we haven't had
any
> problems.
>
> --
> Matt Phelps
> System Administrator, Computation Facility
> Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
> mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
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