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SIntricateY

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Registered: 2022-07-30

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] Boot stuck at blinking underscore

Hello, first post on the forum.

Woke up today to find that gnome was failing to launch after the boot screen. looked it up and came short but I realized I could ctrl+alt+f2 to atleast read some logfiles, looked those up and still nothing that worked for me. It was an issue with X being unable to load nouveau

Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)

Then I installed the Nvidia proprietary drivers, since that was what most people ended up doing.
Unfortunately, and while it did boot, I got an "INVALID FORMAT" error on my monitor as I did the last time I tried to use them, and if I recall this is some kind of bug with intel cpus, nvidia cards and the 5.18 version of the linux kernel.

Reinstalled nouveau now there is a slightly different set of errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log (the failed to load... errors seem to be gone ?)

[    25.136] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:01:00.0: -19
[    25.136] (EE) No devices detected.
[    25.136] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    25.136] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    25.136] (EE) 
[    25.137] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

the top entries of the following are likely irrelevant here. But I included them just in case.
journalctl -p -b err out:

Jul 31 00:19:23 SIY systemd-fstab-generator[240]: Failed to create unit file /run/systemd/generator/-.mount, as it already exists. Duplicate entry in /etc/fstab?
Jul 31 00:19:23 SIY systemd[235]: /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator failed with exit status 1.
Jul 31 00:19:24 SIY systemd-modules-load[259]: Failed to find module 'nvidia-uvm'
Jul 31 00:19:43 SIY gdm-launch-environment][441]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jul 31 00:19:43 SIY gdm-launch-environment][458]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jul 31 00:19:43 SIY gdm-launch-environment][464]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jul 31 00:19:43 SIY gdm-launch-environment][470]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jul 31 00:19:43 SIY gdm-launch-environment][476]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Jul 31 00:19:43 SIY gdm-launch-environment][482]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

All right I went and did some more digging, at first I had installed a package which also installed nvidia utils and drivers, this caused my nouveau drivers to be blacklisted (and removed ?), after once again installing xf86-video-nouveau I got the errors above, this is because the blacklisting was still in effect after I removed the nvidia-utils. It was in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-utils.conf, deleted the blacklist and was on my way.

Last edited by SIntricateY (2022-07-31 04:12:25)