[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#581336: [nvidia-kernel-dkms] Crashes when loading module

[Peter Fritzsche]

Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> > > It just crashes the kernel and leaves the system in a unusable state
> > > when the module is fresh compiled and loaded using "modprobe nvidia"
> > > or I restart the system and the module is automatically loaded. Here
> > > is the
> 
> > Ok, just downgraded from binutils 2.20.51.20100418-1 to 2.20.1-9 (without
> > binutils-gold) and now it seems to work.
> 
> Does this mean you had binutils-gold installed before?

binutils 2.20.51.20100418-1 always installs binutils-gold - so, yes I had 
binutils-gold installed. I had also the package binutils-gold installed which 
just replaces /usr/bin/ld in that version