Hi, I tried to upgrade from 517 to 518/517, but seems failed and want to get back to 517, however, I could not find the nvidia driver. The output of nvidia-smi is
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
and output of pacman -Qs linux517- is
local/linux517-headers 5.17.15-1
Header files and scripts for building modules for Linux517 kernel
output of sudo pacman -S linux517-nvidia
is error: target not found: linux517-nvidia. What can I do for now? Thank you!
oh no, I am using that pretty well before… then what I can do?
considering that there were wifi, sound and driver issues at my laptop for using any previous kernel (i.e. <157)
ok I removed 517 and upgraded to 518, but after sudo pacman -S linux518-nvidia and sudo mkinitcpio -P and reboot, then it will not let me login but freezed at the black screen with a _ only. What can I do now?
Best to stick with the latest “LTS” kernel; otherwise, keep jumping to the latest “stable” kernel. In this case, 5.19. Not sure why you went with 5.18.
Use the Manjaro Kernel tool to manage kernels. It should automatically pull in the appropriate nvidia driver.
You can boot into a live USB session, then “chroot” into your Manjaro installation, and from there either use Timeshift (command-line mode) to restore a snapshot, or use mhwd, mhwd-kernel, pamac, mkinitcpio, and update-grub to make the system bootable again.
Means: Boot a Manjaro Installation Disk, open a terminal and type sudo manjaro-chroot -a to switch to your local installation within that terminal session. If your system partition is btrfs, zfs or encrypted, then you need to mount it manually and switch like this: sudo manjaro-chroot /target /bin/bash
gotcha, now I’m in. there’s no internet in 5.15 kernel version for my laptop… anyway what’s next? just do timeshift --restore? I saw that the data in the partition looks good though?
well, I tried timeshift --restore, there’s nothing there as expected (it’s in efi?)
Is your timeshift drive /dev/nvme0n1p5 included in your chroot? Otherwise it will not work… I use normally btrfs where the snapshots are on the same drive. Anyway… just to explain: Timeshift is not really a backup tool, think more of “system recovery” in windows. Therefore it is always better to have such snapshots on the same partition.
there’s only 515 shown there, which is the kernel version of the live boost. Does this good (original manjaro should be 518 I think?)? Also, I connected with my iPhone, but there errors: failed to initialize alpm library (root: /, dbpath: /var/lib/pacman), could not find or read directory.