Hi team I have been running into issues installing Galelio on my system.
I have been unable to boot into my DM post-install and I tracked it down to nvidia-dkms. Upon booting I would reach “Initializing Graphical Interface” and then it would just flash but it wasn’t locked.
I entered tty, believing it to be an issue with nvidia (it was), I uninstalled nvidia-dkms and installed nvidia.
Once I installed nvidia and rebooted it would finally enter my DM.
Long story short I borked my install trying to install and decided to wipe and start over but now the installer just hard locks on dkms install nvidia/545.29.06 -k 6.6.2-arch-1
The system is so locked that a simple reset isn’t enough, I have to cold boot.
This appears to have been old kernel or driver code that was still kicking around, it went away after a boot into Windows then full shut down.
One issue that still remains though is I cannot boot to the desktop environment using nvidia-dkms, it only works with nvidia.
13900K
4090
GRUB, BTRFS
Cinnamon
I can boot the live USB and install but cannot reach the DE when booting after install, the only fix I have found is to install nvidia instead of nvidia-dkms.
I had this issue with Cassini as well, if I did an offline install I could load DE but after system update it would no longer load.
Switching kernels is actually how I got into the first mess.
I wanted to switch to linux-zen and ran into issues, when building the kernel it hardlocked on the dkms module step for nvidia.
That issue persisted after restoring my snapshot and trying again, which lead me to try re-installing and where surprisingly the hardlockiing issue was still present.
I’ve performed another fresh install, this time with System-d, and it’s the same, it can’t load into DM with nividia-dkms.
It’s weird because the Live USB uses the dkms driver. I want to use GRUB for the BTRFS Snapshots, that has saved my butt in the past
It’s i9 13900K on a MSI Pro Z790-A latest Bios revision.
I removed the 4090 and booted using the Intel igpu and I can swap back and forth between installing Nvidia and nvidia-dkms and the kernel rebuilds fine.
Booting with the 4090 I must have nvidia installed and if I attempt to install nvidia-dkms it hard locks as shown in those screenshots.
Unfortunately I don’t have logs because I have wiped the partition since. I will need to replicate it again but that shouldnt be a problem.
As an aside is ibt=off still a thing?
I came across this when googling the black screen issue, something to do with Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU a newer kernels
So I have narrowed this down a little.
I just performed an offline install, system-d, ext4 and I can boot with nvidia-dkms into KDE
If I can still boot after updating that means it is likely Cinnamon causing the issue, very unlikely it’s GRUB or BTRFS which are the only other 2 options I changed compared to this current install.
One difference as well is the Cinnamon install uses LXDM, whereas KDE uses SDDM
could be ralated, but if it hardlocks while you do rebuild the Nvidia Modules this is nothing i would put on the Driver package itself.
If you run offline install it will not rebuild Nvidia driver-module (they are buld already on creating the ISO) but you will do so when updating after this.
So it could be also an issue with the CPU or RAM even Harddrive.
I mean you can try harder
Install offline do not update after first boot and go rebuilding the Nvidia Modules with the package version from ISO.
That systemd-boot do not show OS entry is because arch does remove initramfs images when rebuilding… you should be able to arch-chroot and rebuild them.
if there is an issue causing cpu / kernel to bail out in some circumstances… it can show in many different ways… and not loading DM can be an issue with faulty driver modules build… may only half / incomplete
Not while I had this hard locking issue. At first my problem was only the DM not loading, that is when I tried it.
Between then and now the Nvidia driver package was updated to a newer revision than what is in the iso so now when I do an online install it also updates Nvidia.
The iso version is 545.29.02, current is 545.29.06
I had settled on accepting I needed to install Nvidia over Nvidia-dkms and it worked.
It was when I wanted to switch to Linux-zen that I remembered I should use dkms, leading me to discover this new issue.
Testing offline right now, pasting this incase I lose it LOL
If I install nvidia-dkms at this point the system will lock, this is just a test USB so I am fine with that, I will need to figure out how to rebuild the bootloader though.
