[SOLVED] I3 login loop

CynaxG · 2026-05-25 10:19:57

I updated everything via sudo pacman -Sys and yay -Sys and after a restart I can't login into i3 anymore. It takes the pw, flashes and goes back to the login.
When I change to GNOME it works normaly.

here is my journal
https://pastebin.com/hUNChiwn

I tried some things from similar posts but nothing helped

Thank you in advance

Last edited by CynaxG (2026-05-26 12:08:08)

aurinko · 2026-05-25 10:38:49

Hey, it seems like your NVIDIA driver is misbehaving, how did you install it? Did you use the official nvidia-open package or some other way (if dkms and custom kernel, do you have the right kernel sources installed?)

What is the kernel version you're using? Is your GPU supported by the drivers you have on your system?

CynaxG · 2026-05-25 10:44:13

aurinko wrote:

Hey, it seems like your NVIDIA driver is misbehaving, how did you install it? Did you use the official nvidia-open package or some other way (if dkms and custom kernel, do you have the right kernel sources installed?)
What is the kernel version you're using? Is your GPU supported by the drivers you have on your system?

Ah damn.. yeah I got the gtx 1060 and I forgot that, when I use update, it updates the driver to a version that is unusable... man I hate fixing NVIDIA...

Normally it doesn't work at all, thats why I skimmed over the NVIDIA problem but I guess I'll get back to again find out how to fix it, thanks a lot and have a good week

StarWolf3000 · 2026-05-25 11:14:05

Uninstall your non-working open driver and install 580.xx from AUR instead
AUR: nvidia-580xx

CynaxG · 2026-05-25 11:16:09

Yeah that's what I plan on doing, just trying to figure out how to do that again tbh

StarWolf3000 · 2026-05-25 11:19:55

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … le_Support

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CynaxG · 2026-05-25 11:49:01

Alright, I checked everything. With my GPU I should install the nvidia-utils and nvidiea-settings
Apparently that's it, but when I check on lspci -v | grep -A10 VGA it stays on "Kernel modules: nouveau"

I tried to manually blacklist nouveau, rebuild and so on but I can't seem to fix that
nvidia-settings doesn'T seem to find my gpu

VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 85ab
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
	Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: nouveau

pacman -Qs nvidia
local/egl-gbm 1.1.3-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.1-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.5-1
    NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/lib32-vulkan-nouveau 1:26.1.1-1
    Open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs - 32-bit
local/libva-nvidia-driver 0.0.17-1
    VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend
local/libvdpau 1.5-4
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 595.71.05-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20260519-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia-settings 595.71.05-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 595.71.05-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/vulkan-nouveau 1:26.1.1-2
    Open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs

seth · 2026-05-25 12:09:11

You've still nvidia-utils 595.71.05-2 and none of the 580xx packages.
Also make sure to read the dkms wiki, notably you'll need the kernel headers (not the API one) for your kernel.

CynaxG · 2026-05-26 08:20:04

I tried playing around with it
I don't have any 580xx packages left now, do I?

And whatever I do with dkms, nothing seems to do anything.
Whatever command I use, I don't get an error message but when I use dkms status nothing is listed

StarWolf3000 · 2026-05-26 08:29:36

CynaxG wrote:

I tried playing around with it
I don't have any 580xx packages left now, do I?
And whatever I do with dkms, nothing seems to do anything.
Whatever command I use, I don't get an error message but when I use dkms status nothing is listed

$ pacman -Qs nvidia

?

CynaxG · 2026-05-26 08:33:49

Yeah, I don't see any 580 packages
I got utils 595 and setting 595, what packages should I remove then please?

StarWolf3000 · 2026-05-26 08:56:01

Remove any 595 packages, and then install the 580 DKMS, utils and settings (and optionally lib32 580 and opencl) from AUR like described above.

CynaxG · 2026-05-26 08:58:18

Alright, now I'm even more confused. I thought I need the 595 packages

seth · 2026-05-26 10:43:43

StarWolf3000 wrote:

Uninstall your non-working open driver and install 580.xx from AUR instead
AUR: nvidia-580xx

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation
Hence also the dkms thing.

CynaxG · 2026-05-26 11:53:19

Alright, I see where I made a mistake, I looked at the wrong family, I'm in pascal so I needed the 580xx driver, which I then got via

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms

Just a bit confused as of yet about the dkms wiki, as I don't understand the background yet
After the install I reboot and it should work again. If so, I'll mark this thread as solved. thank you all in advance

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