[Solved] nvidia driver upgraded, today. Cannot startx

ratcheer · 2020-11-03 15:28:46

My nvidia driver was upgraded from 455.38-1 to 455.38-2 this morning. I can no longer startx, successfully. According to lspci, the system is attempting to use the nouveau driver. nvidia 455.38-1 was working, yesterday.

My Xorg.0.log:

[    30.277] (WW) Failed to open protocol names file lib/xorg/protocol.txt
[    30.277] 
X.Org X Server 1.20.9
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[    30.277] Build Operating System: Linux Arch Linux
[    30.277] Current Operating System: Linux tux 5.9.2-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:01:28 +0000 x86_64
[    30.277] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=c0f4c8e2-b580-4c0d-9562-abdb933b9625 rw loglevel=3 quiet
[    30.277] Build Date: 02 September 2020  06:17:44AM
[    30.277]  
[    30.277] Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
[    30.277]    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
[    30.277] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    30.277] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Nov  3 07:12:32 2020
[    30.278] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    30.278] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[    30.278] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[    30.278] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[    30.278] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[    30.279] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
        Using a default monitor configuration.
[    30.279] (==) Automatically adding devices
[    30.279] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[    30.279] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[    30.279] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[    30.279] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[    30.279] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc" does not exist.
[    30.279]    Entry deleted from font path.
[    30.279] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" does not exist.
[    30.279]    Entry deleted from font path.
[    30.279] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
[    30.279]    Entry deleted from font path.
[    30.279] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[    30.279]    Entry deleted from font path.
[    30.280] (==) FontPath set to:
        /usr/share/fonts/100dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/75dpi
[    30.280] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[    30.280] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
        If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[    30.280] (II) Module ABI versions:
[    30.280]    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[    30.280]    X.Org Video Driver: 24.1
[    30.280]    X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[    30.280]    X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[    30.280] (++) using VT number 1

[    30.282] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/_31
[    30.286] (--) PCI:*(8@0:0:0) 10de:1e89:3842:2068 rev 161, Mem @ 0xfb000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xe0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[    30.286] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[    30.286] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[    30.287] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[    30.293] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    30.293]    compiled for 1.20.9, module version = 1.0.0
[    30.293]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[    30.293] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
[    30.293] (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 1
[    30.293] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
[    30.293] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
[    30.293] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
[    30.293] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[    30.293] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[    30.293] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau
[    30.293] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
[    30.293] (II) LoadModule: "nv"
[    30.293] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv
[    30.293] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[    30.293] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[    30.293] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[    30.295] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    30.295]    compiled for 1.20.9, module version = 1.20.9
[    30.295]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    30.295]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.1
[    30.295] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[    30.295] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
[    30.295] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[    30.295] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[    30.295] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[    30.296] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    30.296]    compiled for 1.20.9, module version = 2.5.0
[    30.296]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    30.296]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.1
[    30.296] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[    30.296] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[    30.296] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    30.296] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[    30.296] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    30.296] vesa: Refusing to run on UEFI
[    30.296] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[    30.296] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[    30.296] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[    30.296] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    30.296] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    30.296] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[    30.296] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    30.296] (EE) 
[    30.297] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Output of lspci -v:

08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 [GeForce RTX 2060] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 2068
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 15, IOMMU group 21
        Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [78] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [250] Latency Tolerance Reporting
        Capabilities: [258] L1 PM Substates
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [420] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
        Capabilities: [900] Secondary PCI Express
        Capabilities: [bb0] Physical Resizable BAR
        Kernel modules: nouveau

Last edited by ratcheer (2020-11-03 16:02:07)

seth · 2020-11-03 15:38:19

[    30.277] Current Operating System: Linux tux 5.9.2-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:01:28 +0000 x86_64

Old kernel, you updated nvidia to match linux 5.9.3.arch1-1 but not the kernel itself.

ratcheer · 2020-11-03 15:46:25

Hmmm. I simply ran "pacman -Syu". I will run it again to see if a new kernel is upgraded.

Thanks

seth · 2020-11-03 15:50:13

Did you maybe previously ignore the kernel in pacman.conf because of "incompatibilities" w/ the nvidia blog?

Last edited by seth (2020-11-03 15:50:22)

ratcheer · 2020-11-03 16:01:43

No. The top mirror in my mirrorlist still did not upgrade the kernel. I commented it out, and the next mirror gave me the new kernel.

Xorg is working now. Thank you for the first answer.

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#1 2020-11-03 15:28:46

[Solved] nvidia driver upgraded, today. Cannot startx

#2 2020-11-03 15:38:19

Re: [Solved] nvidia driver upgraded, today. Cannot startx

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Re: [Solved] nvidia driver upgraded, today. Cannot startx

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Re: [Solved] nvidia driver upgraded, today. Cannot startx

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Re: [Solved] nvidia driver upgraded, today. Cannot startx

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