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Big Scorpio

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Registered: 2024-12-15

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✓ Pacman -Syu update blocked with nvidia legacy drivers (GTX 1080 Ti)

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Hello Arch Friends,

I find myself blocked to update my system, mainly because I use a Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, which is only going to work on the legacy drivers.
And when I attempt to update my OS, I am blocked with unfavorable outcomes either way.

[motherfucker_big_scorpio@Nexus ~]$ pacman -Q nvidia
nvidia-580xx-dkms 580.119.02-2

// Choosing not to remove the installed conflicting package as per default

[motherfucker_big_scorpio@Nexus ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace kdsoap-qt6 with extra/kdsoap? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: nvidia-utils-590.48.01-4 and nvidia-580xx-utils-580.119.02-2 are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-580xx-utils? [y/N] 
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: nvidia-utils-590.48.01-4 and nvidia-580xx-utils-580.119.02-2 are in conflict
[motherfucker_big_scorpio@Nexus ~]$ 

// Choosing to remove the conflicting installed package, which goes against common sense with Linux in mind

[motherfucker_big_scorpio@Nexus ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace kdsoap-qt6 with extra/kdsoap? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: nvidia-utils-590.48.01-4 and nvidia-580xx-utils-580.119.02-2 are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-580xx-utils? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nvidia-580xx-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-580xx-utils=580.119.02' required by nvidia-580xx-dkms
[motherfucker_big_scorpio@Nexus ~]$ 

This exact same prompt about nvidia utils conflicting packages also appears when upgrading packages from AUR using yay -Syu

What I do? I have software like Signal (signal-desktop), that stopped operating because i haven't and couldn't update those.

Last edited by Big Scorpio (Yesterday 19:08:41)

Scimmia

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Re: ✓ Pacman -Syu update blocked with nvidia legacy drivers (GTX 1080 Ti)

I see you have multilib, do you have lib32-nvidia-utils installed? If you need the lib32 drivers, you need the 580xx version of that, too. If not, run pacman with --debug and post the log.

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Re: ✓ Pacman -Syu update blocked with nvidia legacy drivers (GTX 1080 Ti)

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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Big Scorpio

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Registered: 2024-12-15

Posts: 79

Re: ✓ Pacman -Syu update blocked with nvidia legacy drivers (GTX 1080 Ti)

*sigh*
I managed to fix this problem by replacing the nvidia packages with their 580xx equivalents but I don't have the data here at this time to show what I did.
Because right after my system update, another more serious problem has just happened. I lost video signal to my Linux entirely after i log in with my username through SDDM ( https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2291885 )

But I can still indicate to the other readers where to look for the fix for the nvidia stuff. The trick, that did it for me was going here to the AUR index https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=580xx and look for the nvidia packages, that have "580xx" in their name and install those with "yay -S <package name>" and thus replacing the what has been once the original parts of nvidia packages (the non-"580xx" packages that is)

-- UPDATE --

I regained access through Cinnamon desktop environment. This is what fixed it for me:

[motherfucker_big_scorpio@Nexus ~]$ pacman -Q | grep nvidia
lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils 580.142-1
libva-nvidia-driver 0.0.14-1
linux-firmware-nvidia 20251125-2
nvidia-580xx-dkms 580.142-2
nvidia-580xx-settings 580.142-1
nvidia-580xx-settings-debug 580.142-1
nvidia-580xx-utils 580.142-2
opencl-nvidia 580.119.02-1

yay -S lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils nvidia-580xx-settings opencl-nvidia-580xx

Good luck!

Last edited by Big Scorpio (Yesterday 19:07:52)