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zhisme

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From: Saint-Petersburg

Registered: 2022-03-24

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Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module after recent update

Hi all,

I'm struggling for a few days with issue after recent upgrade by running command

 sudo pacman -Syu 

I checked some old topics and new ones, however couldn't solve it myself, so requesting help.

After that updated I have found that my LXDE manager not starting and I can't access login screen. After few investigations of Xorg.log and journalctl I found that my NVIDIA drivers were missing.
I installed them manually

 pacman -S nvidia 

and created file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

Section "Device"
  Identifier "Nvidia Graphics"
  Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

after that I had started to receive even more strange error like in Xorg.log:

Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module

and now I'm totally stuck. Tried to do

 sudo mkinitcpio -P 

but during log there were no mentions regarding NVIDIA and that didn't help.

So please see logs, maybe you could understand what is wrong.
journalctl -b

 pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.11-3
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 530.41.03-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia 530.41.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-utils 530.41.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities 

/etc/var/Xorg.0.log

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,651

Re: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module after recent update

You are using linux-lts, the nvidia package is only for the linux package. See the nvidia wiki page about installation.

zhisme

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From: Saint-Petersburg

Registered: 2022-03-24

Posts: 9

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Re: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module after recent update

You are using linux-lts, the nvidia package is only for the linux package. See the nvidia wiki page about installation.

Thank you, that helped. I followed all the installation steps regarding linux-lts and now I can load to login screen and UI

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