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evnor

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[Solved] Recent update breaks Gnome

A recent update causes Gnome to break. The system boots to a black console with a blinking cursor. CTRL+ALT+F3 brings up a console login.

The tail of dmesg is

[   15.141529] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: Invalid request parameters, planePitch or rmObjectSizeInBytes, passed during surface registration
[   15.514711] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: Invalid request parameters, planePitch or rmObjectSizeInBytes, passed during surface registration
[   15.557489] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: Invalid request parameters, planePitch or rmObjectSizeInBytes, passed during surface registration
[   15.677313] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   15.677320] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   15.677324] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   15.715953] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: Invalid request parameters, planePitch or rmObjectSizeInBytes, passed during surface registration
[   15.752349] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: Invalid request parameters, planePitch or rmObjectSizeInBytes, passed during surface registration
[   17.152050] input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio3/input/input19
[   33.626119] rfkill: input handler enabled

Full dmesg output.

These are the upgraded packages.

Dmesg seems to say the problem is nvidia-modeset, but no nvidia packages are updating. I have a mobile quadro P2000 (HP ZBook 15 G6, I think). Other than when the main drivers dropped support, I haven't had any nvidia problems. Here's some GPU data.

[paul@euler ~]$ lspci -k -d ::03xx
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
	DeviceName: Onboard IGD
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8427
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8427
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
[paul@euler ~]$ pacman -Qs | grep nvidia
local/lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils 580.142-1
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20260309-1
local/nvidia-580xx-dkms 580.142-2
local/nvidia-580xx-utils 580.142-2
local/nvidia-settings 595.58.03-1
[paul@euler ~]$ sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset
Y

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf after removing comments is

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
BINARIES=()
FILES=()
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)

I also have

journalctl -b

for a failed boot and a successful boot, pre pacman -Syu.

Any ideas where I goofed?

Last edited by evnor (Yesterday 20:34:39)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Recent update breaks Gnome

apr 13 20:42:38 euler gnome-shell[943]: Device '/dev/dri/card2' prefers shadow buffer
apr 13 20:42:38 euler gnome-shell[943]: Added device '/dev/dri/card2' (i915) using atomic mode setting.
apr 13 20:42:38 euler gnome-shell[943]: Created gbm renderer for '/dev/dri/card2'
apr 13 20:42:38 euler gnome-shell[943]: GPU /dev/dri/card2 selected primary from builtin panel presence
apr 13 20:42:41 euler gnome-shell[943]: Failed to ensure KMS FB ID on /dev/dri/card2: drmModeAddFB2 failed (Invalid argument) and drmModeAddFB cannot be used as a fallback because format=0x30334241 (AB30).
apr 13 20:42:41 euler gnome-shell[943]: Failed to ensure KMS FB ID on /dev/dri/card2: drmModeAddFB2 failed (Invalid argument) and drmModeAddFB cannot be used as a fallback because format=0x30334241 (AB30).
apr 13 20:42:41 euler gnome-shell[943]: Failed to ensure KMS FB ID on /dev/dri/card2: drmModeAddFB2 failed (Invalid argument) and drmModeAddFB cannot be used as a fallback because format=0x30334241 (AB30).
apr 13 20:42:41 euler gnome-shell[943]: Failed to ensure KMS FB ID on /dev/dri/card2: drmModeAddFB2 failed (Invalid argument) and drmModeAddFB cannot be used as a fallback because format=0x30334241 (AB30).
apr 13 20:42:41 euler gnome-shell[943]: Failed to ensure KMS FB ID on /dev/dri/card2: drmModeAddFB2 failed (Invalid argument) and drmModeAddFB cannot be used as a fallback because format=0x30334241 (AB30).

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-50- … plug/34655
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4725

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evnor

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Re: [Solved] Recent update breaks Gnome

That was fast, and exactly right. Thanks!