On 07/05/2018 06:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no >> problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 >> and it broke the nvidia driver. >> >> Running 'dkms autoinstall --all' does not help, it complains >> about not finding kernel headers (which are installed) and quits. >> >> Any ideas on how I can rebuild the kernel module for the new >> kernel version? >> >> Thanks >> Francisco >> > This requires a workaround, a kernel parameter at boot. > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y" > > Edit the config file like this, > > $sudo gedit /etc/default/grub > > Then run $sudo update-grub. >
As an aside, thank you for posting this fix. Although my drivers were not broken, I did have a problem where xorg would not start correctly with the 4.16 kernel and nvidia drivers 390.48 (both from Stretch backports). That GRUB command seemed to resolve it my issue. Cheers.
