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On Ubuntu 16.04 after a recent apt-get upgrade, X login is not working. Why?

The login screen (which I understand is X-based) is working. However all attempts to login, including via the guest account fail. When I switch to a text terminal and look at .xsession-errors, I see:

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Value in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 34
Current serial number in output stream: 35

The Xserver being used is NVIDIA, however it seems like this must be an Ubuntu login issue as X itself appears to be working and /var/log/Xorg.0.log is uninformative (everything looks fine). Any ideas how to debug further?

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  • I have the exact same issue on Ubuntu 16.04. I installed some security updates on Nov 11th, rebooted as asked and now I can't log in. I have found that I can still log in with "GNOME Flashback (Metacity)", or if I purge my nvidia drivers (nvidia-304) that also lets me log in again. It seems that there is some compatability issue between whatever update was applied and the nvidia driver.
    – irwinr
    Nov 15, 2016 at 1:54

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I "fixed" this problem by upgrading to nvidia-367 from nvidia-304.

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  • Please edit your post to provide detail on exactly how you went about this for those who may not know how to do so. Thank you for helping!
    – Elder Geek
    Nov 12, 2016 at 15:17
  • Installing nvidia-367 fixed it for me as well. Not sure why Ubuntu still has "nvidia-current" pointing to nvidia-304 when that's clearly a very old driver that apparently has problems with the latest updates.
    – irwinr
    Nov 15, 2016 at 2:22

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