Black screen after nvidia update today. Sigh...

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My second desktop. About an hour ago the KDE updater installed nvidia G04 proprietary packages version 390.132. On reboot I get the grub menu, choosing openSUSE gives the three-dot splash for a few seconds, then a black terminal screen with a static cursor on the top left.

The machine is not frozen, it actually starts the user session, but no X.

I switched to ALT+CTRL+F1, logged as root and used yast2 (ncurses?) to check installed nvidia packages. To my surprise the suse-prime pkg was installed, although this is no laptop.

Removed suse-prime, rebooted, same black screen.

Since I can’t downgrade to the previous version I removed nvidia G04 packages and rebooted, believing that nouveau would be enabled. But no joy, same black screen.

I can boot into W10, so no hardware issue.

Except installing nvidia “the hard way” I have no idea what to try.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruno

P.S. locked nvidia packages in my main desktop, something I should have done before on both machines…

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Hi
Make sure the /etc/modprobe.d/50-nvidia.conf is deleted and then rebuild initrd with the mkinitrd command to get back to the nouveau driver.

It’s because the kernel modules have not been updated to the 4.12.14-lp151.28.25-default kernel yet…
https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.1/x86_64/

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Leap kernels are expected to be ABI compatible through entire release so if this is really the cause it is kernel bug.

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Ah, that worked, thanks!

And I should have noticed there was still nvidia stuff when the three-dot Plymouth screen didn’t change after removing the drivers. I’m getting slow…

Bonus: after running mkinitrd I got the nice Leap screen with the bouncing triangles back.

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I see. nvidia repo has:

nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default-390.132_k4.12.14_lp151.27-lp151.6.1.x86_64.rpm

And my current kernel is:


:~> uname -a
Linux linux-7dfm 4.12.14-lp151.**28**.25-default #1 SMP Wed Oct 30 08:39:59 UTC 2019 (54d7657) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
:~>

I suppose that’s the problem, when nvidia updates the package so the minor versions match I can reinstall G04. Maybe…

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Hi
Well it will be in weak-updates and maybe too weak for your card…? I have the later driver, it’s sitting in weak-updates but working, as indicated likely a bug…