Re: Locked into runlevel 3 after installing nvidia-driver

On 6/20/26 1:19 PM, Roger Price wrote:
> 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
> 
I'd try 
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cant-get-nvidia-driver-to-work-on-deabian-13-rt-laptop/353618.

I would start by purging the nouveau driver if not already done.

-- 
John Doe