Failed to start Load Kernel Modules specifically nvidia modules

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Every time I try and boot I get a failed to load kernel modules screen

System will allow me to get to other tty sessions. I have attempted reinstalling the nvidia drivers from scratch and using different kernels. I have also done manjaro-chroot with a live boot and attempted updates and reinstalls.

journalctl -p 4 -b

systemd-modules-load[336]: Failed to insert module ‘nvidia’: Exec format error

kernel: 5.10.30-1-MANJARO

I am not sure where to go from here or what other information would help.

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What’s the output of uname -r and modinfo nvidia | grep vermagic? Which nvidia packages are installed?

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uname -r

5.10.30-1-MANJARO

modinfo nvidia | grep vermagic:

vermagic: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO SMP mod_unload

pacman -Q | grep nvidia

ib32-nvidia-utills 460.73.01-1
linux510-nvidia 460.73.01-3
linux512-nvidia 460.73.01-3
linux54-nvidia 460.73.01-3
mhwd-nvidia 460.73.01-1
mhwd-nvidia 340xx 340.108-1
mhwd-nvidia 390xx 390.143-1
nvidia-utils 460.73.01-3
opencl-nvidia 460.73.01-3

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As you can see the running kernel version and the module’s vermagic don’t match. The kernel will reject this module without appropriate options. What’s the linux510 package version?

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The linux verion is
linux510 5.10.34-1

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That’s interesting, then. Do you use GRUB? If so, what’s the output of grep -o 'Kernel: [a-zA-Z0-9.-]*' /boot/grub/grub.cfg | sort | uniq?

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I do use grub the output of the command is:

Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO
Kernel: 5.12.1-2-MANJARO
Kernel: 5.4.116-1-MANJARO

uname -r still gives 5.10.30-1

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Can you reboot and select “Manjaro Linux (Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x64)” specifically in the boot menu?

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I just went into 5.4 (same issue) but reinstalled 510. I am now no longer able to get to the grub screen and am chucked straight into 5.4

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I managed to get back to grub and manually selected 10.34-1 and journalctl is still giving version magic ‘5.10.34-1MANJARO SMP mod_unloaded’ should be ‘5.10.30-1-MANJARO mod_unloaded’

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Have you tried reinstalling the linux510 package? What does cat /boot/linux510-x86_64.kver say?

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I live booted and reinstalled linux510. When trying to boot into 510 from grub I am still getting failed to load kernel modules.
cat /boot/linux510-x86_64.kver gives:

5.10.34-1-MANJARO x64

uname -r gives

5.10.30-1-MANJARO

Something appears to be very broken

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As I had my home directory as a separate partition I ended up doing a complete reinstall of manjaro and just copying over the things I needed which worked. I must have borked something when doing a paru update. Oh well. Thank you for your help so far