Failed to start load kernel modules with nvidia-390xx

[Bhawna]

Hello Community,
Today I installed 21.0.5 gnome minimal lts and I installed nvidia 390xx driver (as my hardware doesn’t support any drivers latest than 390xx).
As I was saying after installation of driver I rebooted and got error:
Falied to start load kernel modules

And also, about a month before I installed the same gnome minimal . At that time after installing and reboot I didnt got an error.

Also for your information, I booted to live usb and tried pacman -Syyu & -Syyuu.

A month before i think the krrnel was 5.4.106 something and now it is 5.4.118 something. So changing my kernel would fix this problem.

Thanks for your kind support.

[bogdancovaciu]

Hello,

@Bhawna

I booted to live usb and tried pacman -Syyu & -Syyuu

In the live system that will have no effect … or do you wanted to say you did that in the chroot of the installed system, from the live media?

@Bhawna

So changing my kernel would fix this problem.

Is that a statement or a question?
Partial updates are not supported, so downgrading the kernel will require also to go back to the old modules and probably more packages, leading to a very unstable system.

From the installed system TTY, please run:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu`

sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-nvidia-390xx

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux510

then reboot your system with:

systemctl reboot

and once in grub, make sure you select the 5.10 kernel and see if the issue persists.

[Bhawna]

Thanks but i fixed it by just cleaning the package manager cache , I dont how it happened but it is working now.