I am running the latest Tumbleweed and up until today had few problems. Today, I did a zypper dup and kernel 6.7.6-1 installed. Now the machine will only boot to a bare terminal. I do have the choice to boot to 6.7.5-1, the previous kernel, in the Advanced Options section of the Grub menu and under that kernel, the system boots to X11 Plasma with out any problems. I have Nvidia graphics and am running under the Nvidia G06 drivers if that is part of the problem. I’m wondering if something might be missing from the update yesterday or if I might have some system problem.
Not familiar with Nvidia graphics, someone more knowledgeable with those will come along. Very generally, if you use DKMS to build kernel modules then make sure it was built for the latest kernel without any errors.
What you can do in the meantime:
- Boot into recovery mode (single user mode) from the Grub menu and see if there are any failed units
systemctl --failed. This should give a rough idea of what’s not working. You can then look at the failed service’s journal logs and troubleshoot.
If it doesn’t yield any results, you can look for priority 3 errors in the journaljournalctl -p3 - Look at
/var/log/zypp/historyto see if there were any errors during the last dup. If so you can boot into a working snapshot from the Grub menu and dosudo snapper rollback
Please check if the driver actually built for 6.7.6.
The current Nvidia driver in the Tumbleweed repo is 545.29.06 and apparently has problems with the newer kernels, see for instance this nvidia forum post
You may freeze the 6.7.5 kernel and continue using it until the Nvidia driver catches up.
Nvidia 545.29.06 and kernel 6.7.6-1 works fine on different machines with different Nvidia generations (including Optimus setup) and Tumbleweed. See please don’t mix up stuff. The link you provided is from a user who created its problems himself (vanilla kernel and other stuff).
Additionally the kernel in the mentioned thread is 6.7.3…we are way ahead on Tumbleweed with 6.7.6-1
Nice to know, anyway if 6.7.5 works and 6.7.6 doesn’t on the OP’s system the driver might have not been built for whatever reason, so checking if it is actually in place is still warranted IMHO.
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FWIW Nvidia user here. I updated yesterday as well. Everything seems to be fine and working normally for me. No problems whatsoever.
> inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.29.06
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2
> neofetch
...... xyz@localhost.localdomain
.,cdxxxoc,. .:kKMMMNWMMMNk:. ----------------------------
cKMMN0OOOKWMMXo. A ;0MWk:' ':OMMk. OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64
;WMK;' 'lKMMNM, :NMK' 'OMW; Host: X570 AORUS PRO -CF
cMW; WMMMN ,XMK' oMM. Kernel: 6.7.6-1-default
.MMc ''^*~l. xMN: KM0 Uptime: 42 mins
'MM. .NMO oMM Packages: 5136 (rpm)
.MM, .kMMl xMN Shell: bash 5.2.26
KM0 .kMM0' .dl>~,. .WMd Resolution: 1920x1080
'XM0. ,OMMK' OMMM7' .XMK DE: Xfce 4.18
*WMO:. .;xNMMk' NNNMKl. .xWMx WM: Xfwm4
^ONMMNXMMMKx; V 'xNMWKkxllox0NMWk' WM Theme: Greybird-geeko
''''' ':dOOXXKOxl' Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: xfce4-terminal
Terminal Font: Monospace 11
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 1561MiB / 32011MiB
Here is the output from my setup. We seem to be using the same drivers:
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060] driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 2560x1440
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.29.06
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib
> neofetch
...... charlie@Beary.IBMPEERS
.,cdxxxoc,. .:kKMMMNWMMMNk:. ----------------------
cKMMN0OOOKWMMXo. A ;0MWk:' ':OMMk. OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64
;WMK;' 'lKMMNM, :NMK' 'OMW; Host: US Desktop Aegis R 1.0
cMW; WMMMN ,XMK' oMM. Kernel: 6.7.5-1-default
.MMc ''^*~l. xMN: KM0 Uptime: 6 mins
'MM. .NMO oMM Packages: 5677 (rpm), 12 (flatpak)
.MM, .kMMl xMN Shell: bash 5.2.26
KM0 .kMM0' .dl>~,. .WMd Resolution: 2560x1440
'XM0. ,OMMK' OMMM7' .XMK DE: Plasma 5.27.10
*WMO:. .;xNMMk' NNNMKl. .xWMx WM: KWin
^ONMMNXMMMKx; V 'xNMWKkxllox0NMWk' Theme: Breeze [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
''''' ':dOOXXKOxl' Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700F (20) @ 4.800GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Memory: 8978MiB / 15820MiB
I have no idea of what the problem can be. But I just noticed that an update of the NVIDIA driver has come in. Perhaps it solves your problem?
EDIT: are you using Wayland? Could that be a potential problem?
> inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] driver: nvidia v: 550.54.14
Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.54.14
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2
@bearymore the rpm installed drivers should rebuild automatically (they have been on my test Tumbleweed setup). Have you tried another zypper -vvv dup since the latest driver arrived? The other option that should work to kick the rebuild off is to force the re-install of the nvidia kmp package…
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The new Nvidia drivers did the trick. Everything now works.
I do use X11. Wayland has been too buggy: I use a Chrome based browser (Vivaldi) which doesn’t seem to work correctly with Wayland for one and, for another, random apps don’t work right - KNotes, for example, sticks post-it notes in the middle of the screen and they can’t be moved. X11, on the other hand, has no problems.
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