Shiny new NVIDIA repo, won't boot after restart.

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On a fresh TW install, I’m having problems with the proprietary nvidia driver using the repo method listed on opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers. the output from zypper during/post install is as follows:
https://pastebin.com/PzTaUcEy

When attempting to restart, the system passes GRUB, but then hangs, never even getting to disk decryption. I am unsure as how to proceed.

2

I don’t know what your problem might be, but maybe the following message can shed some light on it.
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-08/msg00343.html

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Sadly, not applicable, as I was working from a fresh install that only had noveau drivers. But thank you for the suggestion.

4

What do you mean by “hangs”? What do you see? Is the screen black? Does the monitor switch off? Does it flash? Is there any text output visible on screen?

Have you tried Ctrl+Alt+F7? Maybe the VT switch just did not happen and it waits for pw entry on another screen.

5

And which Nvidia Repo do you mean?
Post the URL from that Repo.

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The repo is in the ML post linked: https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed

I tried that just for the fun of it and it indeed produces a black screen with a blinking cursor. Boot stalls completly, there is no HD activity, not even the one generated by running from initramfs up to lvm pw entry.

As it works in rescue mode and then reaches graphical desktop with nvidia enabled, I guess it has to do with plymouth or graphical boot in general. But I have no use for nvidia, so I did not test further.

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I recommend in Tumbleweed to use the File from the Nvidia Homepage, here on Leap 42.2 with Kernel 4.12 it works.

uname -a &&nvidia-settings -v
Linux linux64 4.12.5-2.g4d38c27-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 9 07:50:45 UTC 2017 (4d38c27) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nvidia-settings:  version 384.59  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-01)  Thu Jul 20 01:02:19 PDT
2017
  The NVIDIA X Server Settings tool.

  This program is used to configure the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
  For more detail, please see the nvidia-settings(1) man page.

Otherwise contact the Maintainer of the Repo.

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The Bumblebee repo version (latest) works fine as well, on top of that it has DKMS so you won’t get black screened on upgrades.

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When this was announced on the factory mailing list by Stefan Dirsch, he asked for user feedback:

You can provide feedback here in this mail thread ( [opensuse-factory] NVIDIA gfx driver RPMs available for Tumbleweed ... - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists ) or via bugzilla. If you use Bugzilla, please use

Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Component: X11 3rd party Driver

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Thanks all for the responses. I’ll look into it further, maybe using another machine as a test platform.

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I just installed tumbelweed and the nvidia driver from the repo and ran into the same issue: after rebooting the boot stuck at the beginning.
The last thing which was prompted is: “starting show pylmouth boot screen …”

Booting into the fail safe mode was fine, so I uninstalled everything related to plymouth and now it’s booting.

I am going to try reporting it tomorrow … never did that, probably on bugzilla since the mailing list stuff looks like using a fax :wink: