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tmb

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Registered: 2018-03-14

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[SOLVED] NVIDIA 415.27-1 -> 415.27-2 caused the xserver to crash

Hey,

I am facing some serious trouble regarding the xsession and the recend nvidia driver:

After updating the graphic driver (nvidia)
from 415.27-1 -> 415.27-2, the xsession crashes
directly after running startx.

My graphic card is:
lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Rev. 2] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Rev. 2]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

The output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log is:

[    38.641] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
[    38.642] (EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages and
[    38.642] (EE) NVIDIA:     consult the NVIDIA README for details.
[    38.642] (EE) No devices detected.
[    38.642] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    38.642] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    38.642] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[    38.642] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    38.642] (EE) 
[    38.643] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

In journalctl:

Jan 28 21:49:06 desktop kernel: nvidia: version magic '4.20.4-arch1-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload ' should be '4.20.3-arch1-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload '
Jan 28 21:49:06 desktop kernel: nvidia: version magic '4.20.4-arch1-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload ' should be '4.20.3-arch1-1-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload '

After downgrading, everything works fine.

How to resolve this problem?

Regards,
Tobias

Last edited by tmb (2019-02-06 21:36:46)

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA 415.27-1 -> 415.27-2 caused the xserver to crash

Did you reboot after updating?

If so, was your /boot mounted when you updated?

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tmb

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Registered: 2018-03-14

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA 415.27-1 -> 415.27-2 caused the xserver to crash

Yes I did several reboots after the update and I have repeated the up- and downgrade several times. If boot would not have been mounted, the full system upgrade which included nvidia would probably have gone much worse.

The system is running for a year now without problems regarding my nvidia card so far.

tmb

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Registered: 2018-03-14

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA 415.27-1 -> 415.27-2 caused the xserver to crash

I also have a properly configured pacman hook running, according to the arch-wiki and also renewing 20-nvidia.conf created by
$ nvidia-xconfig
did not help.

tmb

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Registered: 2018-03-14

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Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA 415.27-1 -> 415.27-2 caused the xserver to crash

Updating 415.27-1 to 415.27-4 solved the problem.
Downgrading back to 415.27-2 brought back the problem => It was a driver issue.