Hi all,

I had an nvidia driver module update behind my back, while the system is running. I did not issue an apt-get upgrade, or enter my sudo password anywhere.

Yet, launching any application that uses GLX (e.g. glxgears) gives me this:

X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 151 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext) Value in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 35 Current serial number in output stream: 36

And dmesg output is full of entries that tell me that the Nvidia client is newer than the running kernel module version. I've had this before, and the usual remedy is to reboot. It's just that I didn't (knowingly) authorise the system to do an update.

Anyone know what might be doing these unattended updates? It'd be useful to know, so I can schedule the updates at the end of the day.

Thanks, Srdjan