Re: Locked into runlevel 3 after installing nvidia-driver
Roger Price <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sat, 20 Jun 2026, john doe wrote: > On 6/20/26 10:52 AM, Roger Price wrote: > > I typed telinit 5 and nothing happened - still in run level 3. I tried ... > You need to look in the logs to see what's going on.. I re-booted. Nothing in dmesg, but journalctl -b | grep -i -e "multi-user" -e "graphical" -e "nvidia" gives 70 lines. Here are the first 8 : Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd[1]: Queued start job for default target graphical.target. Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[410]: Error running install command 'modprobe nvidia-modeset ; modprobe -i nvidia-current-drm ' for module nvidia_drm: retcode 1 Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[410]: Failed to insert module 'nvidia_drm': Invalid argument Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[439]: modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia-current not found in directory /lib/modules/6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64 Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[437]: modprobe: ERROR: Error running install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current ' for module nvidia: retcode 1 Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[437]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Invalid argument Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[440]: modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia-current-modeset not found in directory /lib/modules/6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64 Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[435]: modprobe: ERROR: Error running install command 'modprobe nvidia ; modprobe -i nvidia-current-modeset ' for module nvidia_modeset: retcode 1 Roger