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FriedrichNietzsche

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Registered: 2018-09-05

Posts: 41

[Solved] Boot process gets stuck after installing Nvidia driver

Hello guys,

I am currently working on my endeavour migrating from Ubuntu to Arch Linux + Btrfs. The installation so far seems to work nice and I already would be in the process of setting the system and the software if the installation of the Nvidia driver would fail permanently.

The problem manifests itself, that after installing the driver according to the wiki I do the demanded reboot and I only see the lines
"starting version 239"
"Scanning for Btrfs filesystems"

After that it stucks without further information.  I've tried it with and withoud rerunning mkinitcpio, with and without the hook provided in the wiki. The packages I try to install are: nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings opencl-nvidia. Currently I am using a btrfs snapshot to go back before nvidia breaks my OS.

Since I am not sure what information to include I am posting some information about my hardware. I will happily provide any other requested information.

Thank you very much.

lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: hsw_uncore

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff [size=4K]
	Memory behind bridge: f5000000-f60fffff [size=17M]
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000e1ffffff [size=288M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Controller (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Controller
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25
	Memory at f4220000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family ME Interface #1
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 9 Series Chipset Family ME Interface
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26
	Memory at f4236000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me
	Kernel modules: mei_me

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V
	DeviceName:  Onboard LAN
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
	Memory at f4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Memory at f4234000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	I/O ports at f040 [size=32]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: e1000e
	Kernel modules: e1000e

00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Memory at f4233000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
	Kernel modules: ehci_pci

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev d0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: None
	Memory behind bridge: None
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: None
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d0) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
	Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
	I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff [size=4K]
	Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f41fffff [size=66M]
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: None
	Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
	Memory at f4232000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
	Kernel modules: ehci_pci

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family Z97 LPC Controller
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 9 Series Chipset Family Z97 LPC Controller
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
	Kernel modules: lpc_ich

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 9 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24
	I/O ports at f090 [size=8]
	I/O ports at f080 [size=4]
	I/O ports at f070 [size=8]
	I/O ports at f060 [size=4]
	I/O ports at f020 [size=32]
	Memory at f4231000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 9 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
	Memory at f4230000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	I/O ports at f000 [size=32]
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: CardExpert Technology GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
	Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau

01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
	Subsystem: CardExpert Technology GP104 High Definition Audio Controller
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at f6080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

03:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
	Bus: primary=03, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32
	I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff [size=4K]
	Memory behind bridge: f0000000-f41fffff [size=66M]
	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: None
	Capabilities: <access denied>

04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs EMU20k1 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Series]
	Subsystem: Creative Labs EMU20k1 [Sound Blaster X-Fi Series]
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
	I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
	Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
	Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: snd_ctxfi
	Kernel modules: snd_ctxfi

Last edited by FriedrichNietzsche (2018-09-05 17:17:31)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,668

Re: [Solved] Boot process gets stuck after installing Nvidia driver

Welcome to the boards, FriedrichNietzsche.

What are you starting up? If it's GDM disable Wayland if it's a console try adding nvidia-drm.modeset=1 to your kernel params.

If neither of those fix it, post a journal log (and if a xorg start is attempted a xorg log) from a time where the issue occurs. If you've modified mkinitcpio.conf post that as well.

FriedrichNietzsche

Member

Registered: 2018-09-05

Posts: 41

Re: [Solved] Boot process gets stuck after installing Nvidia driver

Well, that was a bullseye. It was indeed wayland. Could have thought about that myself. Thank you very much.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,668

Re: [Solved] Boot process gets stuck after installing Nvidia driver

Glad to hear, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your initial post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post