Kernel and Nvidia driver update leads to broken Docker container

[linux-aarhus]

I moved the topic to a separate thread.

@gothicVI

Did that but it still broke docker using my GPU. After that downgrading the driver broke lightdm. I can repeat that again but I doubt I’ll get a different outcome. Has anyone had issues with docker as well? How did you solve them?

GPU pass-through into docker is a complicated process.

I suggest you research the configuration for your explicit use case.

With certain specialised projects even small changes in applications or drivers may cause the project to malfunction.

I am guessing you are running an AI project in docker which depends on Nvidia GPU - perhaps the upstream project know which knobs to adjust.

An incident like you describe may be why certain projects tend to support Red Hat and Ubuntu - but not Arch Linux and derivatives like Manjaro - we are simply too unstable - even when using stable branch - in context of the project.

@gothicVI

Do you also have an idea how to get the update installed without breaking the system?

@discobot

Prepare the update beforehand

Preparation steps

From [INFO] Stable branch - BIG update BEST practice

1. Create a list of custom packages for later reference

pamac list --foreign > ~/alien-pkgs.txt

2. Remove all foreign packages

pamac remove $(pamac list --foreign --quiet)

3. Remove all orphans and other unneeded packages

pamac remove --orphans --unneeded

4. Run a simulated update

pamac update --dry-run

5. Looking good? Repeat the above without --dry-run

reboot

6. Consult the list of packages created in the first step and rebuild only those you really need