{"id":1639,"date":"2016-01-07T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2016-01-07T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:20:30","slug":"nvidia-beta-driver-361-16-breaks-plasmakde5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA &#8211; Beta Driver 361.16 Breaks Plasma\/KDE5.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the tests system to the latest &#8216;beta&#8217; driver <strong>361.16<\/strong>, and this broke Plasma\/KDE5..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This driver is supposed to introduce the &#8216;vendor neutral&#8217; <em><strong>libglvnd<\/strong><\/em> option:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">$ ll \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX*<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 7 10:17 \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX_indirect.so.0 -&gt; libGLX_nvidia.so.361.16<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 7 10:17 \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 -&gt; libGLX_nvidia.so.361.16<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1115368 Jan 7 10:17 \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX_nvidia.so.361.16<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 7 10:17 \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX.so -&gt; libGLX.so.0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73352 Jan 7 10:17 \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX.so.0<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>The install prompts to install the &#8216;complete&#8217; libglvnd, but Plasma\/KDE fails if you select the &#8216;install\/overwrite&#8217; option, and KDE5 fails with a &#8216;Could not start kdeinit5&#8217; error if you select the &#8216;do not install&#8217; option..<\/p>\n<p>The workaround is to revert to driver 358.16..<\/p>\n<p>This has already been covered in more detail on the NVIDIA forum..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/908506\/many-essential-kde-applications-sddm-krunner-plasmashell-segfault-on-startup-with-361-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/908506\/many-essential-kde-applications-sddm-krunner-plasmashell-segfault-on-startup-with-361-16\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 January 7, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the tests system to the latest &#8216;beta&#8217; driver 361.16, and this broke Plasma\/KDE5..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This driver is supposed to introduce the &#8216;vendor neutral&#8217; libglvnd option: $ ll \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 7 10:17 \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX_indirect.so.0 -&gt; libGLX_nvidia.so.361.16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 7 10:17 \/usr\/lib64\/libGLX_nvidia.so.0 -&gt; libGLX_nvidia.so.361.16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1115368 Jan 7 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1639\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,15,18,19,20],"tags":[1253,1254,107,1256,277,1255,418],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-361-16","tag-breaks-kde-plasma","tag-bug","tag-libglvnd","tag-nvidia-2","tag-revert-to-358-16","tag-workaround"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}