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TenShiN

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Registered: 2017-02-17

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nvidia-dkms probably fails

After today's update I can't get into X on my zen kernel. dmesg gives an error about nvidia modules being of version 375, while rest of nvidia related packages is 378. I tried to regenerate dkms and reinstall packages, but it still gives me the same error. Anyone with the same issue?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: nvidia-dkms probably fails

What, exactly, happens when you reinstall it? What kernel are you running specifically (check uname -r and pacman -Q linux-zen)?

TenShiN

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Registered: 2017-02-17

Posts: 6

Re: nvidia-dkms probably fails

Not on zen right now, so can't do uname -r, but both linux-zen and linux-zen-headers packages are of version 4.9.9-1, so I assume latest.
And actually nothing suspicious happens. It just finishes installation silently.

Last edited by TenShiN (2017-02-17 15:13:39)

TenShiN

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Registered: 2017-02-17

Posts: 6

Re: nvidia-dkms probably fails

I reinstalled everything again and got this after installation of linux-zen (nvidia-dkms was already present):

==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-zen-fallback.img
==> WARNING: errors were encountered during the build. The image may not be complete.
error: command failed to execute correctly
(3/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

After reinstallation of linux-zen and linux-zen-headers it finishes ok though. But doesn't work after reboot with error that I specified in a first post.

Last edited by TenShiN (2017-02-17 16:38:05)

TenShiN

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Registered: 2017-02-17

Posts: 6

Re: nvidia-dkms probably fails

okay. After another try it worked for some reason. I don't know what happened and how it got fixed, but I'll take it.

lothar_m

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Registered: 2010-04-25

Posts: 32

Re: nvidia-dkms probably fails

There is an issue with the mkinitcpio being run prior to to the dkms modules being rebuild. I haven't found any solution for this and have to run mkinitcpio manually after the linux package updates, otherwise I'll end up with an unbootable system.

check this bugreport

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