Debian 10 fails to boot completely with the GUI following an OS update. (RTX 3070)
Debian 10 fails to boot completely with the GUI following an OS update. (RTX 3070)
I realize others might face the same problem. My actions seemed safe, but after updating via system settings, the OS only loads to a paint and halts (attached image). Initially used Cinnamon GUI, then switched to GNOME. I followed the tutorial at https://github.com/BeanGreen247/Debian_1...tall_Guide to run a RTX 3070. Also added Flat Pak for GPU support, which helped with GreenWithEnvy. After updating system preferences, the OS didn’t boot into GUI but ran in command-line mode. I think I need to redo the NVIDIA driver guide fully. Curious if anyone encountered this issue before.
As you have it configured now, I have no way of helping you. So here's how you can avoid this in the future. Don't ever download the driver from nvidia, ESPECIALLY when your running a distro like Debian, as you found out it doesn't work because dpkg has no idea that you installed the driver, so it doesn't give two Fs as to what is going on with it, so if there's a config or package it doesn't know about, it's going to overwrite it. This is explained in Don't Break Debian That said, you should have followed the Debian write up on doing this (the debian wiki unfortunately ranks lower on the google search results than github), yes it's an older driver, but the 460.73.01 driver does support the RTX 3070 and this is 100% support by Debian. If you want a newer driver version than that, you have to use a newer version of Debian if that doesn't exist, then either cope with it, or don't run Debian. The error message you're seeing is caused by a memory error, right now your kernel can't communicate with a ram module (likely due to the nvidia driver not rebuilding properly when you updated the kernel), the reason I have no way of helping you here is because you'll have to fix it every time you update the kernel (something that should be done regularly since debian only does security patches on 4.19)