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jattra

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Registered: 2018-09-06

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[SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

Hello, I am new to this forum and to Archlinux. I installed it two days ago and today I decided to install nvidia proprietary drivers.
With nouveau, Gnome starts fine, just the graphic performance is terrible.
With nvidia, Gnome does not start at all and the machine is stuck in the middle of boot process, completely unresponsive to anything but hard restart.
Only think I was able to do was to boot from USB and uninstall the driver to get the system working again.
Can anybody pls help me diagnose and fix the problem?

My system is
Intel i5-3570K
Nvidia GTX 950

I followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
install nvidia
run nvidia-xconfig
reboot

I also tried blacklisting i915 and intel_agp modules according to this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NV … grated_GPU.
The main problem is that I don't even know, where to look for error messages or any leads.

Thanks for any hints.

Last edited by jattra (2018-09-09 05:58:20)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

With nvidia, Gnome does not start at all and the machine is stuck in the middle of boot process, completely unresponsive to anything but hard restart.

Post the journal for one of those boots.

Moving to NC...

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euromatlox

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … -releases/

For GTX 950 you can choose either nvidia-390xx (long lived branch) or nvidia.
Also install nvidia-390xx-utils or nvidia-utils.

If that newest branch (nvidia) does not work, you can try other branches which support your card.
Check NVidia documentation for supported cards.
Remember to uninstall unused drivers (nouveau too) to eliminate extra problems. Only one graphics card driver is needed.

Last edited by euromatlox (2018-09-06 22:30:48)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

Many threads on this, if you were to search for GDM and nvidia blackscreen using the forum search you are bound to find a plethora of answers.

jattra

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

Thank you guys for your answers.

Many threads on this, if you were to search for GDM and nvidia blackscreen using the forum search you are bound to find a plethora of answers.

Actually, you are right, there are quite a few of such threads. I have gone through some of them, most of them outdated, without success. After two hours of blindly installing and configuring things I decided to try a different path. So, I asked here, how to analyze the problem first.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

Thanks I may give it a shot and try that.

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topi … -releases/
Check NVidia documentation for supported cards.
Remember to uninstall unused drivers (nouveau too) to eliminate extra problems. Only one graphics card driver is needed.

I was under impression that my model is supported by the newest nvidia driver. Also, I read on the wiki that the nvidia lib blacklists nouveau driver automatically.

Post the journal for one of those boots.

I will do it as soon as I get to that machine again. (in a few hours). Thanks for the hint!

Moving to NC...

Good guess

jattra

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

I realized that the machine is not frozen, it is just hanging in the middle of the boot and the keyboard input is not working.

Anyway, this is the [ journalctl -p 0..4 ] output for the hanging boot.

Sep 07 18:26:02 stribog kernel: ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
Sep 07 18:26:02 stribog kernel: ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with x86_energy_perf_policy(8)
Sep 07 18:26:02 stribog kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
Sep 07 18:26:02 stribog kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 07 18:26:05 stribog kernel: nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
Sep 07 18:26:05 stribog kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Sep 07 18:26:05 stribog kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Sep 07 18:26:05 stribog kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  396.54  Tue Aug 14 19:02:34 PDT 2018 (using threaded interrupts)
Sep 07 18:26:06 stribog kernel: platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog gnome-shell[411]: Failed to create backend: No resources
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog gnome-session-binary[404]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog gnome-session-binary[404]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog gdm-launch-environment][448]: pam_systemd(gdm-launch-environment:session): Failed to create session: Start job for unit user-120.slice failed with 'canceled'
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:11 stribog systemd[452]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused
Sep 07 18:26:23 stribog dhcpcd[360]: eno1: no IPv6 Routers available
Sep 07 18:28:14 stribog gdm[367]: GLib: g_hash_table_find: assertion 'version == hash_table->version' failed
Sep 07 18:28:14 stribog kernel: systemd-shutdow: 27 output lines suppressed due to ratelimiting

jattra

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Registered: 2018-09-06

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

...and after I disabled wayland, it boots fine!
Thanks a lot for the hint, V1del!

Now, what's that wayland thing? Should I care that it does not work?

euromatlox

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

I think you will be fine without wayland. Lots of debate going on with that thing and Nvidia drivers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions … used_with/

Since this issue is solved, and you are the original author, can you rename the title beginning with [SOLVED] ?

Last edited by euromatlox (2018-09-08 22:08:15)

jattra

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome does not start with nvidia driver

Thank you all!