Tainted Kernel and Kernel Panic

General system Newbie
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The last update messed everything up. I am unable to use the Linux LTS kernel due to this on the boot screen:

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sudo dmesg | grep taint  

[    3.563770] binder_linux: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    3.563774] binder_linux: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

Currently on the Linux-linux (Base-d I think?) kernel and after 15-20 minutes it randomly freezes with a blinking capslock led until I have to do a hardware shutdown.

lspci -k -d ::03xx

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
	DeviceName: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 85fa
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)
	DeviceName: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 85fa
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau

Looked everything up, got rid of the proprietary drivers and installed nouveau. No bueno at my wit’s end. Help.

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Those tainted kernel messages aren’t error messages. It is just letting you know you are using an out-of-kernel module. It may be completely unrelated to your issue.

Are you wired or wireless?

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If you mean my network, Im connected to the WIFI yes.

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There is seriously something wrong with my system. For now I was able to boot to the linux-linux kernel for a few minutes trying to resolve the issue but now this blue screen randomly popped up. I remove everything nvidia from the kernel parameters hoping it would fix it but it didnt.

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Help me out here im going caca loco.

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Ok so blacklisting the “binder_linux” module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-binder.conf kind of did the trick.

Now I can login to the linux-lts kernel without any hitches but the GUI is acting weird, feels like its switching over to the fallback drivers.

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Seems like the system is not detecting any drivers?

inxi -G                                                 [23:24:49]
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: N/A
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A
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Please don’t post text output as images.

Where did you run inxi from? Please share inxi -Gxxx

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I reinstalled the proprietory drivers using
nvidia-inst
and did
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux-lts
rebooted and voila the problem seems to be gone atleast for now

inxi -Gxxx shows this now

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 565.77 arch: Pascal pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: DP-2,HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8d class-ID: 0300

Seems like the root cause of all the issues was the binder_linux module, I remember installing waydroid and it was probably someho in conflict with the nvidia drivers after the proprietory drivers received an update.

Anways I would like to thank the community for all the info I could get.

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Are you running EOS because we don’t use mkinitpcio. If you installed mkinitcpio without making any other changes, that would produce some bad results.

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Oh word? What do we have instead?

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dracut

However, when you installed mkinitcpio, you would have received a bunch of warnings.

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It seems upgrading to dracut 106 is causing a kernel panic for me too. I had to restore a snapshot and then temporarily blacklist it in pacman.

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