[NVIDIA] Problems while Booting and KDE Problemt

[stuck wolf]

RTX 3060 (tripple fan edition if it matters)
32gb ram
Ryzen 5 2700X

Known problems:
• Doesn‘t even come to the bootloader
Solution: reboot
• Kernel Panic
Solution: Reboot
• KDE Loading Screen Freeze
Reboot
• KDE full ui reset
Just wait until it reset
• Emergency mode
Reboot

UPDATE:
Now it more likely freezes, I just switched to hyprland instead of kde which improved a bit but not everything
SysRq + REISUB doesn‘t work
TTY doesn‘t work
The kernel is deadlocked

@tired fractal Heres the post btw, thanks

[ashen aurora]

dkwtc. received a thank you cookie!

[stuck wolf]

• KDE Freeze
Solution: Reboot

Also, TTY doesn‘t work here ^^

• Whatever happened here
Solution: Reboot

[copper spoke]

Do you have a USB with archiso or some other Linux ISO on it?

[tired fractal]

Ok I am here

So let's go step by step, what nvidia drivers do you use?

What bootloader do you use?

@stuck wolf

[stuck wolf]

yeah sure

[stuck wolf]

linux

[stuck wolf]

[dervarex@stuck wolf ~]$ pacman -Qs | grep nvidia
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 590.48.01-1
local/libva-nvidia-driver 0.0.15-1
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20260110-1
local/nvidia-open-dkms 590.48.01-4
local/nvidia-utils 590.48.01-4
[dervarex@stuck wolf ~]$

[copper spoke]

A bootloader is something like GRUB or systemd-boot

[stuck wolf]

oh read it wrong

yeah bootloader wait

systemd

[copper spoke]

You can try mounting your partitions and chrooting, and then running pacman -Qqn | pacman -S - to reinstall all packages

If the issues is from a improperly installed package then that could help

[tired fractal]

Okay I use systemd-boot, what error do you have when booting?

[stuck wolf]

look at the screenshot

that's the only error I can see

[tired fractal]

Oh so that is the error when booting, right?

So you enter bootloader, boot from your .conf(arch linux) and see that error

[stuck wolf]

that sometimes happens but rarely

[tired fractal]

Ok, do you dual boit

Boot*

[stuck wolf]

I power my pc on, press enter at Arch Linux | Advanced options for ... and then this halleps

[stuck wolf]

one ssd per os

[tired fractal]

lsblk -f

[stuck wolf]

[dervarex@stuck wolf ~]$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1 vfat FAT32 6BF7-5900 890.5M 13% /boot
└─sda2 btrfs c419b60a-9152-4ded-88e7-dfc54066b4ef 107.2G 51% /var/log
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
/home
/
sdb
└─sdb1 ext4 1.0 da54a552-24a9-441c-ae96-a7a9282cd6ac
zram0 swap 1 zram0 2fab630c-2231-4268-8f7d-3ac9f4f54cff [SWAP]
nvme0n1
└─nvme0n1p1 ext4 1.0 endeavouros 1d6bb68a-22f0-4c51-aeca-2e13c22ff269 714.3G 17% /run/media/dervarex/endeavouros
[dervarex@stuck wolf ~]$

[tired fractal]

Let me see partitions, if you dual boot with windows and you use same esp then sometimes windows eats your esp

[tired fractal]

Please format it in `

[stuck wolf]

i dual boot with linux

[dervarex@dervarex ~]$ lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS sda ├─sda1 vfat FAT32 6BF7-5900 890.5M 13% /boot └─sda2 btrfs c419b60a-9152-4ded-88e7-dfc54066b4ef 107.2G 51% /var/log /var/cache/pacman/pkg /home / sdb └─sdb1 ext4 1.0 da54a552-24a9-441c-ae96-a7a9282cd6ac zram0 swap 1 zram0 2fab630c-2231-4268-8f7d-3ac9f4f54cff [SWAP] nvme0n1 └─nvme0n1p1 ext4 1.0 endeavouros 1d6bb68a-22f0-4c51-aeca-2e13c22ff269 714.3G 17% /run/media/dervarex/endeavouros [dervarex@dervarex ~]$

Arch Vanilla and EndevourOS

[tired fractal]

Can you confirm there is only a FAT32 type

Partition

[tired fractal]

Ok better

run lsblk -f

I need to see type

You could be running same esp though

[tired fractal]

Ok so you use same esp(efi system partition), so I know that with windows it can cause problems, but I don't really know if with linux it can have such issues

Can I see your /boot dir

[stuck wolf]

[dervarex@stuck wolf boot]$ ls -R
.:
amd-ucode.img EFI initramfs-linux.img loader vmlinuz-linux

./EFI:
BOOT Linux systemd

./EFI/BOOT:
BOOTX64.EFI

./EFI/Linux:

./EFI/systemd:
systemd-bootx64.efi

./loader:
entries entries.srel keys loader.conf random-seed

./loader/entries:
2026-01-25_18-54-38_linux.conf

./loader/keys:
[dervarex@stuck wolf boot]$

[tired fractal]

So how do you boot to endeavourous

[stuck wolf]

other ssd and I didn't boot that for half an eternity

in that ssd must be moos

theres a new ecosystem in that drive xD

[tired fractal]

When you run lsblk -f did you had the ssd plugged in?

[stuck wolf]

yeah it's my main drive

but I boot from my old main

it's complicated

[tired fractal]

what kernel do you have

[stuck wolf]

Kernel: Linux 6.18.9-arch1-2

[tired fractal]

try checking if removing normal one and installing lts fixes your issues

[stuck wolf]

i used lts kernel in endevour before it was worse

[tired fractal]

ever tried with arch?

try, worst case scenario you reinstall the normal one

[stuck wolf]

endevour is arch - kinda
it's based on arch with preinstalled stuff

[tired fractal]

yeah I know, but hey maybe it works

[stuck wolf]

okay do you know how to do that?

[tired fractal]

I don't know, and again you can just reinstall normal one if something goes wrong

sudo pacman -S linux-lts

sudo pacman -Rs linux (optional), you can keep it

then change .conf in your systemd configuration

[stuck wolf]

okay I'm gonna do that tomorrow
wanna show my friend mint linux today so 5 mins before he calls me installing another kernel maybe ain't a good idea haha
thanks

[tired fractal]

lmao, speedrun

yeah tell me how it goes

[stuck wolf]

my internet be like:
server!!!!
yeah???
a zero!!!
ok
server!!!
yeah???
a one!!!
ok
server!!!
wait a sec
ok now what???
a 1!!!
ah sorry can you say that whole thing again?

[tired fractal]

dude how slow is it lol

in MB/S

[stuck wolf]

my school's wifi is about 200-300 times faster so yeah

[tired fractal]

oh

[stuck wolf]

download mint linux iso(2gb)?
2d 8h 32m
that's what firefox tells me
torrent of course is a bit faster but still more than 1d

[tired fractal]

oh

[stuck wolf]

(My schools speed)

[tired fractal]

that's fast!

[stuck wolf]

Just wanted to boot up my pc and yeah
Noice

Where sddm

[tired fractal]

Could you share full output/does it happen every time you boot?

[stuck wolf]

Not every time

I didn‘t switch kernel yet

[tired fractal]

Oh, so it seems like it is a read error with vmlinuz-linux

Could you check if the permissions are right and your .conf entry

Share them here

[stuck wolf]

What permissions exactly and where can I find my boot conf?

[tired fractal]

permissions like rw-r-r...
.conf in /boot/loader/entries/.conf

IIRC, if the .conf are not there try searching those dirs

[stuck wolf]

Where you mean check permission, in /boot?

[tired fractal]

Of vmlinuz-linux, yes in /boot

And the other files

[stuck wolf]

`
[dervarex@dervarex ~]$ ls -lR /boot
/boot:
total 134344
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 307200 Jan 11 04:52 amd-ucode.img
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:58 EFI
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 120634499 Feb 24 19:05 initramfs-linux.img
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 25 18:05 loader
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16613568 Feb 22 15:06 vmlinuz-linux

/boot/EFI:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:58 BOOT
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:58 Linux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:58 systemd

/boot/EFI/BOOT:
total 132
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 134656 Jan 6 18:29 BOOTX64.EFI

/boot/EFI/Linux:
total 0

/boot/EFI/systemd:
total 132
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 134656 Jan 6 18:29 systemd-bootx64.efi

/boot/loader:
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:58 entries
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6 Jan 25 19:58 entries.srel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:58 keys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29 Jan 25 19:58 loader.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32 Feb 25 18:05 random-seed

/boot/loader/entries:
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 253 Jan 25 19:58 2026-01-25_18-54-38_linux.conf

/boot/loader/keys:
total 0
[dervarex@dervarex ~]$
`

so now I would have time to switch bootloader

[tired fractal]

Also append arch install in this thread

[stuck wolf]

yeah i used archinstall

sorry i forgot to mention that

[tired fractal]

No worries

Permissions seem right, also the .conf

[stuck wolf]

if you want I can switch bootloader now

[tired fractal]

Could you post full output of this

[stuck wolf]

where can I see it?

[tired fractal]

You booted in between?

Like

[stuck wolf]

yes had to

as boot after that failed too

[tired fractal]

Oh, see if it happens again. If it does just take a photo xD

Or

Run

journalctl -b -<number of boots ago>

@stuck wolf

[stuck wolf]

I don‘t even know how many boots that was
But if it happenes again yes I‘m gonna do that
So for example if I boot and error and then boot and it works it‘s 2 boots ago

[tired fractal]

It's one

Because you
Boot -> Fail -> Second Boot -> journalctl -b -1

[stuck wolf]

Here is a freeze(2 images per page)

Heres the rest:

@tired fractal

I don‘t understand any of that logs here

Just a bit at the beginning

[tired fractal]

You got some problems with kde plasma

Like at a point it asks if wayland was dead

It also complains about some org.kde parts not found. Have you installed full kde plasma + optional apps?

[stuck wolf]

Idk but I use wayland now?

[stuck wolf]

Where is it?

F*CK EVEN MY TTY FREEZES LMAO

Btw I also installed lts headers

Nice somehow i managed to do it

[tired fractal]

Okay great, does lts work better now?

[tired fractal]

You use kde plasma, right?

So you use wayland

Because kde is based on wayland

[stuck wolf]

Seems to be working better

[stuck wolf]

Ah wait type I use hyprland

My brain doesn’t know a difference between these two words but theres a big difference

[stuck wolf]

Why does this take so long?

freeze... again

[copper spoke]

You may want to try adding -p 3 to the journalctl so only errors are shown

[tired fractal]

Yeah, then post here

[stuck wolf]

Freeze + somehow a loop of my dc call idk

I’ll send you the file

With only error

everything:

why does this start a kde plasma session

i use hyprland

i don't want kde

[tired fractal]

uninstall kde

[stuck wolf]

Okay

I don‘t need it anyways so no problem

[stuck wolf]

It‘s done btw

Works better but still not great yet

Tf boot screen freezed

[tired fractal]

I have no idea

Lmao

[stuck wolf]

here

journalctl -b 1
because boot error -> boot worked and journalctl

[stuck wolf]

So I found that there are 12 unrepairable errors on my disk which btrfs couldn‘t fix, deleted them(minecraft libs and sole crash logs) and now I see this here

that looks like nvidia

Not even REISUB works…

Alt + SysRq + R
Alt + SysRq + E
Alt + SysRq + I
Alt + SysRq + S
Alt + SysRq + U
Alt + SysRq + B

Nothing
So the kernel is deadlocked
(I sometimes read the wiki too)

[tired fractal]

Can you reinstall?

Also could it be an hard drive that is going to die?

[stuck wolf]

SSD and i checked the health recently

[stuck wolf]

Yeah I‘m gonna reinstall now

On a newer ssd too

1TB

NVME

Is there any guide how to not use archinstall and instead do it yourself?

[stuck wolf]

Fuck my bios freezed
How does that even happen???????

[tired fractal]

Arch wiki installation guide

[tired fractal]

Shitty bios, can you restore original options in bios by letting the small battery attached to it die

[stuck wolf]

What battery and where to get a new one?

[tired fractal]

Not new one, just let it die

The cmos

[stuck wolf]

How to do that?

[copper spoke]

Yeah that's like the worst way to reset your CMOS lol