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#1 2017-04-02 17:29:06

Annoyingduck
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[Solved] Recent Nvidia Updates Caused Booting Into Blinking Cursor

This issue is solved, I just wanted to post the solution for other users.

After the recent update to Nvidia-LTS, Linux-LTS, Mesa, and Xorg I was unable to boot into my system, after Grub it just booted into a blinking cursor. In the blinking cursor I did control+alt+f2 to get into tty mode.  There I did a couple of quick checks by rebuilding my mkinitcpio image and updating grub. Grub failed to update, claiming something about in line 271 grub.cfg doesn't exist (weird).  So I reinstalled grub, then updated grub, and it updated fine then rebooted....Still blinking cursor. After some digging around on Google, I found in an Antergos forum to run the command "nvidia-xconfig" and it said that the file did not exist and it created a new one.  After that it booted up fine.  I did not see any warnings when performing the upgrade yesterday in Pacman so I just wanted to post my results if anyone else is having this issue.

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#2 2017-04-02 18:15:00

loqs
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Re: [Solved] Recent Nvidia Updates Caused Booting Into Blinking Cursor

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53527 You can check dmesg/journal to verify the nvidida_drm module output is the same and the nvidia kernel module with therefore not function.
The config generated by `nvidia-config` allows the X server to start but I would suspect without using the nvidia driver.
Edit:
If just the nvidia_drm module is failing then /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf which contains

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
EndSection

Would not match and an xorg.conf might correct this again this is speculation and the xorg.log from both the failing and succeeding runs plus the xorg.conf should clarify the issue.

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#3 2017-04-02 22:13:24

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Re: [Solved] Recent Nvidia Updates Caused Booting Into Blinking Cursor

I'm not sure if your issue was (is?) the same as this one. I'll leave your topic as a separate entity, but if it becomes apparent that your solution was, as loqs suggests, not the solution you hoped it would be, then please continue in the other topic and let the mod team know that this one is superfluous. Thanks.


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#4 2017-04-02 22:25:43

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Re: [Solved] Recent Nvidia Updates Caused Booting Into Blinking Cursor

WorMzy wrote:

I'm not sure if your issue was (is?) the same as this one. I'll leave your topic as a separate entity, but if it becomes apparent that your solution was, as loqs suggests, not the solution you hoped it would be, then please continue in the other topic and let the mod team know that this one is superfluous. Thanks.

I honestly do not know - above my pay grade!!  I ran the command: journalctl | grep "nvidia_drm: disagrees" in the linked thread and I'm showing the same output as the other user. Did my "fix" actually not fix my system?

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#5 2017-04-02 22:36:18

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Re: [Solved] Recent Nvidia Updates Caused Booting Into Blinking Cursor

It would appear to be the same issue then.  It is fixed in that you got X working again what driver is being used now I could only guess as I said in post #2.

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#6 2017-04-02 23:09:38

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Re: [Solved] Recent Nvidia Updates Caused Booting Into Blinking Cursor

loqs wrote:

It would appear to be the same issue then.  It is fixed in that you got X working again what driver is being used now I could only guess as I said in post #2.

If it helps, I only have 1 graphics driver, and that is the nvidia-lts package - I do not have the regular nvidia package installed.  Here's my inxi -F:

[cn@ArchDellPrecision ~]$ inxi -F
System:    Host: ArchDellPrecision Kernel: 4.9.20-1-lts x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Dell product: Precision T1700 v: 01
           Mobo: Dell model: 073MMW v: A03 UEFI: Dell v: A21 date: 11/18/2016
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-4770 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 3900 MHz 1: 3442 MHz 2: 3699 MHz 3: 3664 MHz
           4: 3464 MHz 5: 3370 MHz 6: 3398 MHz 7: 3460 MHz 8: 3398 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK107GL [Quadro K600]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 driver: nvidia
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 256 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.2
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.20-1-lts
Network:   Card: Intel Ethernet Connection I217-LM driver: e1000e
           IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 34:17:eb:ae:80:93
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 5241.0GB (4.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD40EZRZ size: 4000.8GB
           ID-3: /dev/sda model: OCZ size: 240.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 51G used: 28G (57%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-2: /boot size: 197M used: 103M (52%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 18.81GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 58C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 213 Uptime: 16 min Memory: 1511.1/15991.6MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.8

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#7 2017-04-02 23:38:51

loqs
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Re: [Solved] Recent Nvidia Updates Caused Booting Into Blinking Cursor

I would suggest you leave the system as is until an updated nvidida-lts package is released then remove the xorg.conf and the system should be back to before the issue occurred.
Alternatively you could rebuild the nvidia-lts package yourself and remove the xorg.conf.
Last alternative suggestion do nothing the system is working.

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