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dwarve

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Registered: 2025-10-02

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6.18.45-2-lts kernel nvidia-open-lts problem

nvidia drivers stop working after a kernel update; rolling back to the previous version fixes the issue

journalctl with 6.18.45-2-lts

[I] username@bigg [13:44:01] ~> journalctl -b -1 | grep nvidia
Aug 22 21:02:09 bigg systemd-modules-load[317]: Failed to find module 'nvidia_uvm'
Aug 22 21:02:10 bigg nvidia-persistenced[517]: Started (517)
Aug 22 21:02:10 bigg nvidia-persistenced[517]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 143 has read and write permissions for those files.
Aug 22 21:02:10 bigg nvidia-persistenced[513]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Aug 22 21:02:10 bigg nvidia-persistenced[517]: Shutdown (517)
Aug 22 21:02:10 bigg systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 22 21:02:10 bigg systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

journalctl with 6.18.45-1-lts

[I] username@bigg [13:44:06] ~> journalctl -b | grep nvidia
Aug 22 21:10:34 bigg kernel: nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
Aug 22 21:10:34 bigg kernel: nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
Aug 22 21:10:34 bigg kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 239
Aug 22 21:10:34 bigg kernel: nvidia 0000:29:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Aug 22 21:10:34 bigg systemd-modules-load[317]: Inserted module 'nvidia_uvm'
Aug 22 21:10:34 bigg kernel: nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64  610.57.04  Release Build  (root@)
Aug 22 21:10:34 bigg kernel: [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002900] Loading driver
Aug 22 21:10:36 bigg kernel: [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:29:00.0 on minor 1
Aug 22 21:10:36 bigg kernel: nvidia 0000:29:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
Aug 22 21:10:36 bigg kernel: fbcon: nvidia-drmdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
Aug 22 21:10:36 bigg kernel: nvidia 0000:29:00.0: [drm] fb0: nvidia-drmdrmfb frame buffer device
Aug 22 21:10:36 bigg nvidia-persistenced[538]: Started (538)
Aug 23 01:49:28 bigg suspend[2892557]: nvidia-suspend.service
Aug 23 01:49:28 bigg logger[2892557]: <13>Aug 23 01:49:28 suspend: nvidia-suspend.service
Aug 23 01:49:28 bigg systemd[1]: nvidia-suspend.service: Deactivated successfully.
Aug 23 11:18:38 bigg suspend[2892794]: nvidia-resume.service
Aug 23 11:18:38 bigg logger[2892794]: <13>Aug 23 11:18:38 suspend: nvidia-resume.service
Aug 23 11:18:38 bigg systemd[1]: nvidia-resume.service: Deactivated successfully.

dwarve

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Registered: 2025-10-02

Posts: 3

Re: 6.18.45-2-lts kernel nvidia-open-lts problem

nvidia-open-lts is last version

[I] username@bigg [13:52:18] ~> pacman -Qi nvidia-open-lts | grep Version
Version         : 1:610.57.04-6

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,494

Re: 6.18.45-2-lts kernel nvidia-open-lts problem

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 0d9e1c9983 - if the kernel needs rebuild with rust updates…

modinfo nvidia
sudo modprobe -v nvidia

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … work_items
It most likely just needs a rebuild as well then.

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