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ShadowEater

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Registered: 2023-04-05

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[SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

Hi All,
I'm newbie with a "gnome" GNOME/Nvidia Driver problem.

First of all I have a custom pc built by me, with an MSI B450 Gaming PRO Carbon Max WiFi motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 3700x CPU and PNY Ge Force RTX 3050 graphics card (I know Nvidia is a disaster when it comes to drivers, but unfortunately I already bought the graphics card and so I won't change it for now).

I recently bought a ssd to install archlinux on, I installed it following the wiki procedure, then I installed the nvidia drivers together with the nvidia-utils and nvidia-settings packages.

Then I installed the gnome package group and gnome-extra.
I enabled gnome with "systemctl enable gdm.service" and rebooted.

After the reboot the gnome started, but hovering over the user icon it flashed and turned blue in pieces. After clicking on it I started typing the password, but every time I typed a character, the user icon disappeared and reappeared, the same thing happened with the power and settings symbols.
After typing in the password and hitting enter the screen went black with the mouse arrow displayed but unable to move and it stayed that way for minutes, after which I tried ctrl+alt+F3/F4, but it didn't reentered a console and then I drastically shut down the pc.

After what happened, turned on the pc, at the gnome screen I immediately did ctrl+alt+F3 and disabled gdm.service.
I checked if the drivers loaded with "lsmod", but nvidia was not listed.
I tried starting them by hand with "modprobe nvidia -vv" and the response was:

modprobe: INFO: custom logging function 0x56078d4f8af0 registred
insmod /lib/modules/6.2.9-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia.ko.xz 
modprobe: INFO: Failed to insert module '/lib/modules/6.2.9-arch1-1/extramodules/nvidia.ko.xz' : No such device 
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia' : No such device
modprobe: INFO: context 0x56078e3d8410 released 

I tried removing the dkms kms from HOOKS and inserting nvidia_drm.modeset=1 but nothing, it never starts.

I leave you the boot logs in the hope you can help me boot-log.txt.

Thanks in advance everyone

PS:

# lspci | grep VGA
26:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [Geforce RTX 3050] (rev a1)

Last edited by ShadowEater (2023-04-06 06:02:43)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

uname -a
pacman -Qs 'linux|nvidia'

And if you want to post your journal, please use sth. like 0x0.st, but not google drive. It's clumsy and cumbersome to get some text from there.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

Nouveau is being loaded, it shouldn't it should be black listed after installing nvidia-utils, what do you get from

cat /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-utils.conf

and maybe try explicitly blacklisting nouveau manually.

ShadowEater

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Registered: 2023-04-05

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

Nouveau is being loaded, it shouldn't it should be black listed after installing nvidia-utils, what do you get from

cat /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-utils.conf

and maybe try explicitly blacklisting nouveau manually.

Hi, thanks for the interest
the response is : blacklist nouveau

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

hmm... can you post seths output? Maybe also remove the kms hook from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and/or explicitly regenerate the images now that nvidia is installed with

mkinitcpio -P

ShadowEater

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Registered: 2023-04-05

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

uname -a
pacman -Qs 'linux|nvidia'

And if you want to post your journal, please use sth. like 0x0.st, but not google drive. It's clumsy and cumbersome to get some text from there.

Hi, thanks for the interest and thankyou forthe int about 0x0.st

uname answer

uname -a 
Linux shadowarchtower 6.2.9-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:51:14 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

instaed pacman -Qs 'linux|nvidia'
pacman-linux-nvidia.txt

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

Looking at the log, nouveau is in the initramfs, the blacklisting config isn't.
Rebuilding the initramfs will likely do, however

I tried removing the dkms from HOOKS and inserting nvidia_drm.modeset=1

please post the current mkinitcpio.conf, this sounds like you might have broken it.

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ShadowEater

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Registered: 2023-04-05

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

hmm... can you post seths output? Maybe also remove the kms hook from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and/or explicitly regenerate the images now that nvidia is installed with

mkinitcpio -P

Oh thanks, i solved regenerating the image with

mkinitcpio -P

thanks a lot

ShadowEater

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Registered: 2023-04-05

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED]GNOME Freeze After Login, Probably a Nvidia Driver feilure

Looking at the log, nouveau is in the initramfs, the blacklisting config isn't.
Rebuilding the initramfs will likely do, however

I tried removing the dkms from HOOKS and inserting nvidia_drm.modeset=1

please post the current mkinitcpio.conf, this sounds like you might have broken it.

Sorry, yesterday I was very tired and for some reason I misspelled and wrote dkms instead of kms.
Thanks a lot for your spupport