After update today, booting to CLI directly

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I have upgraded thru zypper dup today morning. While the update was finished and it is not booting to GUI alone. I can login to loclhost with the username but can’t seem to pass thru. Am not a linux technical guy but using OpenSuse for quite sometime and never had any issues in the last 3 years. Can someone guide me? I have tried checking Nvidia drivers. If I want replace the same, it says “Target disk is not writable”.

Appreciate any inputs. I am okay to rollback to the last available OS as well. Please guide how to rollback if the new OS is not fully ready yet.

Thanks in advance.
Bala

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I realize have not configured snapper. I have no way to rollback now. Please help me to login to KDE.

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True booting to previous kernel .

NVIDIA involved???

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I did try to login to previous kernel. It is still reaching in CLI instead of KDE. Also, since the disk is “Readonly”, i am unable to reinstall Nvidia drivers also. I think it may not be Nvidia issue. Still waiting for someone to help me out.

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It might be related to NVIDIA Graphic card stopped working after update to 570 driver with Linux 6.13.0-1-default

I had a different issue after this update where my laptop screen would work but external monitors not anymore. For some reason the nvidia_drm module is no longer being loaded at boot, but after sudo modprobe nvidia_drm everything works again.

So maybe check if you have nvidia-settings installed and if all the modules are being loaded.

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@qzwx likely suse-prime installed, helped a user the other day on IRC with same sort of issue.

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Hi Qzwx, I did try the same but did not work. Upon entering sudo modprobe nvdia-drm, i see the following output:
sudo: unable to mkdir /var/lib/sudo: Read-only file system
sudo: /var/lib/sudo/lectured: Read-only file system

nvidia-settings: command not found

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I see that I do have suse-prime installed, but I’m using wayland. Can I safely remove it?

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If the filesystem is mounted as read-only there is definitely more going on. Maybe you can find something in the system log by running dmesg, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to help you much further with this.

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I don’t have suse-prime installed. I use this on a desktop PC and have dedicated RTX graphics card.

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@qzwx Dual graphics? inxi -SGaz

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Yes, intel & nvidia

System:
  Kernel: 6.13.1-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.13.1-1-default
    root=/dev/mapper/system-root resume=/dev/system/swap security=apparmor
    mitigations=auto rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.10.0
    wm: kwin_wayland tools: avail: xscreensaver vt: 3 dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE
    Tumbleweed 20250209
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics vendor: AIstone Global
    driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm
    built: 2020-21 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:a788 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD104M [GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q / Mobile]
    vendor: AIstone Global driver: nvidia v: 570.86.16
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550/565.xx+
    status: current (as of 2025-01) arch: Lovelace code: AD1xx
    process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022+ pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: none off: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-2,eDP-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:27e0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Chicony FHD Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b7c2
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa
    alternate: fbdev,intel dri: iris gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    d-rect: 6400x2680 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,top-left model: BenQ GW2760HS
    serial: <filter> built: 2016 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1)
    dpi: 82 gamma: 1.2 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 pos: top-center model: BenQ GW2760 serial: <filter>
    built: 2013 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 82 gamma: 1.2
    size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Monitor-3: eDP-1 pos: bottom-r model: BOE Display 0x0a99 built: 2021 res:
    mode: 2560x1600 hz: 240 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 181 gamma: 1.2
    size: 366x229mm (14.41x9.02") diag: 422mm (16.6") ratio: 16:10
    modes: 2560x1600
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
    drv: nvidia gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris
    x11: drv: iris
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.3.4 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RPL-S)
    device-ID: 8086:a788 memory: 30.53 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 layers: 6 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    name: Intel Graphics (RPL-S) driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:a788
    surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 1 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
    GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:27e0
    surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
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@qzwx suse-prime is somewhat deprecated, don’t know how well it works with Wayland… should use switcherooctl and prime render offload with new hardware…

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Switcheroo_Control

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It says “Failed to start Load Kernel Modules” with dmesg

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According to SDB:NVIDIA SUSE Prime - openSUSE Wiki suse-prime does not work with wayland. I’ll try switcheroo. Thanks.

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Am still stuck at the command line. Can any one help me through?

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@bgv hard to say, your drivers all look to be installed. If as root user you run the command systemctl isolate graphical.target what happens?

Maybe some suse-prime remnants in the likes of /etc/X11 and/or /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.d

Maybe something in the initrd, so you need to look through the output (as root user) the command lsinitrd | less (Don’t post the output here), just look for things like nvidia.conf or bbswitch or G0 files.

Is something like bbswitch or bumblebee (and suse-prime) installed?

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I don’t see these in the output at all. Attaching output of graphical.target here. In the lsinitrd | less, i don’t see /extc/X11 or /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.d anywhere in the output.

I have not installed bbswitch or bumblebee or suse-prime ever.

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@bgv those /etc/X11 and/or /etc/X11/Xorg.conf.d are directories for you to inspect.

what is the output from inxi -GSaz show, if drivers modesetting and nvidia are present, then it’s likely a desktop issue…

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Here is the output from inxi -GSaz.

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