Bug 1310351

Summary:	Nvidia (proprietary) driver breaks when grub.cfg is regenerated (UEFI)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	rabcor1
Component:	grub2	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	bcl, lkundrak, mads, pjones
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Description rabcor1 2016-02-20 20:40:38 UTC

Description of problem: After installing the nvidia proprietary drivers, and later on updating the grub configuration file (with grub2-mkconfig) the nvidia driver stops properly functioning until it gets completely uninstalled and then installed again post reboot.


Kernel: 4.3.5-300 (also happened on 4.2.3-300)

Grub2 ver: 2.02-0.25.fc23

How reproducible: Easily/Perfectly


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Nvidia drivers (with rpmfusion http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia )
2. echo "GRUB_THEME=\"/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt\"" >> /etc/default/grub
3. grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg 
4. reboot

Actual results: 
Xorg fails to load nvidia drivers (without giving a specific error) and desktop environment starts in fallback mode after crashing; if xorg is forced to load the nvidia driver, the kernel bugs out as X is loaded and gives the error "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request..."


Expected results: nvidia proprietary drivers continue functioning as they did before the grub configuration file was regenerated.


Additional info:
Not sure if adding the GRUB_THEME line is actually needed to reproduce the error, but that is what I did.

Stack exchange question here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/264616/nvidia-drivers-not-loading-correctly-on-fedora-23/264633#264633

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