[Triumf-linux-users] Dec 11 yum updates and broken X server

[Art Olin]

I just updated my SL6.8 system with NVIDIA graphics and it runs glxgears
without problems. I had to exclude the triumf-adobe package.
On 12/12/2016 12:31 PM, Frederick Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> On my SL6.8 workstation the Xorg server has stopped working
> properly.  I have not logged out or rebooted the machine,
> but OpenGL applications stopped working as of yesterday.
> The applications fail with "could not get .... visual"
> where .... is single buffer, double buffer, required, GLX,
> etc.  But xdpyinfo indicates that the X server does
> have the GLX extensions installed.
> The glxinfo also fails: could not find RGB visual or fbconfig.
>
> Checking in the yum.log:
>
> Dec 11 04:07:56 Updated: kmod-nvidia-375.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> Dec 11 04:08)07 Updated: nvidia-x11-drv-375.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>
> There were many previous updates of these packages that did not
> cause any problem.
>
> Since the Xorg process has been running for months, I assume that
> these updates have screwed up some shared libraries that are loaded
> by the applications at run time.  Logging in via Nx to start a
> different session (with its own new Xorg) does not help -- messages
> are the same.
>
> Does anybody else have this problem and/or know how to fix it?
> The packages are listed as installed but is a reboot required
> to put things right?
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
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