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[John Dickson <616197@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I have a Dell E6510 laptop containing an NVIDIA 3100M card. I'm running
32 bit Ubuntu Lucid (10.04), using the proprietary NVIDIA driver
provided with Lucid (nouveau doesn't yet work with this card).

About 75% of the time the machine fails to boot - after 3-4 seconds, and without showing anything on the screen (text or graphical), it hangs with a black screen with a flashing text-mode cursor. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or any other keys) has no effect.  The Xorg.log shows:
    Fatal server error:
    no screens found

However, roughly once in every 4 attempts (varies widely) I see messages
on the screen about ureadahead and plymouthd having been killed by the
OOM killer, and the machine boots correctly and functions without
problem.

This happens with both the drivers provided with Lucid, and the latest
drivers directly from NVIDIA.  It's been suggested on the NVIDIA forums
that this may be a timing issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic-pae 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 11 16:08:34 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-24-generic-pae, i686: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6510
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic-pae root=UUID=df624372-81d2-4564-8517-98b2c1471a73 ro quiet
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0N5KHN
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd05/28/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6510:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0N5KHN:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6510
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 codename:           lucid
 architecture:       i686
 kernel:             2.6.32-24-generic-pae

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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NVIDIA driver fails to load on boot 75% of time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616197
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