Op 25-09-2023 om 22:57 schreef Patrick Shanahan:
* Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@hccnet.nl> [09-25-23 16:47]:
Op 22-09-2023 om 14:59 schreef Patrick Shanahan:
* Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@hccnet.nl> [09-22-23 02:21]:
Op 22-09-2023 om 04:35 schreef Patrick Shanahan:
* Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@hccnet.nl> [09-21-23 18:04]:
Op 21-09-2023 om 21:49 schreef Patrick Shanahan: > * Jogchum Reitsma<j.reitsma@hccnet.nl> [09-21-23 12:28]: >> Hi, >> >> My son's system fails to get into a graphical environment after the zypper >> dup --no-allow-vendor-change issued yesterday (to TW 20230917, kernel >> 6.5.3.-1-default). Trying to issue startx, the Xorg.0.login his home >> environment says "Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module¨. > then you do not have the nvidia pkg for the 6.5 kernel installed. if G04, > I don't believe there is one "yet". There is indeed no nvidia-glG05 or -4 package, says zypper info.
As said, too bad that one doesn't get warned for this omission when issuing the usual zypper dup. Now we have a pretty useless system. no, just boot a 6.4 kernel We tried that yesterday, via grub. The only result was a blinking cursor in the upper left of both screens. It was possible to go to tty01 for a terminal login, but no graphics screen.
We haven't done any research as to why this 6.4 kernel does not boot to graphical system, that's something we should do, I think. At the moment there is no nvidia nvidia-glG05 or -04 package installed, so that could pose the problem for the 6.4 kernel? most certainly.
fwiw: I do not know where you found directions to remove the nvidia packages when updating the kernel. I have never removed the nvidia pkgs in that circumstance. just do the upgrade/update (dup) and reboot. if you don't get graphical, revert to the previous working kernel and wait for newer nvidia packages. Update: we tried to install the drivers with zypper in nvidia-glG05, but zypper can´t find them.
Also trying to add the nvidia repo (zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/) filas, there is no repo file found. Indeed it's not there, probably because building fails? https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed is the baseurl and perhaps the trailing "/" is causing you problems.
I do not recall the ar (add repo) syntex as I hand edit but you are welcome to copy and use my repo if need be.
As mysteriously as the problem came, it disappeared. Yesterday I was visiting my son, we did a zypper refresh and a zypper dup --no-vendor-change, and voila, on reboot we had a working KDE again. The only change made is that we had already put my repo which refers to nvidia in /etc/zypp/repo.d But since he a working KDE before TW 20230917, this should not be necessary. Well, things work, and thanks again for all help and suggestions presented here! regards, Jogchum