Kde neon with nvidia very unstable with last update

During last update Discover show notification with
Error while installing package: cannot copy extracted data for ‘./lib/firmware/nvidia/570.169/gsp_tu10x.bin’ to ‘/lib/firmware/nvidia/570.169/gsp_tu10x.bin.dpkg-new’

system periodically was freezing
I’ll switched to open driver.

Rkward starting only with
QT_QUICK_BACKEND=software rkward

I’ll noticed that system are freezing then firefox show youtube in popup window.
One time i got a pink screen with kernrl panic.

Switching to older kernels do not help.

I’ll check starting rkward with latest live usb.
Rkward show settings window and then crushed.

now I have reached only with nomodeset option in safe mode.
Tenporally i am going to write this option to grub.

I am not seeing similar messages in Ubuntu-land, but this is probably a failure of the Nvidia driver to rebuild its kernel module for the new 6.14 kernel.

You may need to look at the logs in /var/log/apt to see more of the error than Discover shows.

You might try reinstalling the nvidia-dkms package if you have gone back to the 570 driver, which will try to build a module, and will definitely show more of the error content if it fails again:

sudo apt reinstall nvidia-dkms-570

I lack any experience with Nvidia these days, and I am not sure what a fix might be, but I do suggest seeking similar things in more general Ubuntu areas, as this sort of thing is unrelated to KDE or neon, though perhaps other with similar GPUs to yours might offer their own ideas.

I try it.
Installation proprietary drivers is broken.
It’s cause a massage
Error while installing package: cannot copy extracted data for ‘./lib/firmware/nvidia/570.169/gsp_tu10x.bin’ to ‘/lib/firmware/nvidia/570.169/gsp_tu10x.bin.dpkg-new’

But there should be more error messaging than this, which might point to the actual problem. Such as why it can’t copy a file. Granted, there may be a wall of gibberish text, but there likely is relevant errors just above this message when using apt.

See if you can install the 575 version (it’s in the official ubuntu repos):

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-575

I had this driver installed. One day after updating discover show me a notification with text cannot copy extracted data for and system became unstable.
Updating whith cause a same message in console.
Switching to open driver, trying old kernel, updating initframs got nothing.

Rkward not starting even in latest live usb.
It is seen like something is broken.

This might seem stupid to ask, but do you have any free space left in your root partition? :\

Try running df -h

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Yes, something IS broken.
The recent update from Ubuntu upgraded your kernel to 6.14 from the previous 6.11, which causes DKMS to build a new kernel module for the Nvidia driver, and this is failing for some reason. There are very likely more detailed error messages that do not show in Discover which may help find the cause.

I have 52G of free space.

Are you comfortable in working in console? If yes then you would probably want to try purging the nvidia drivers, then rebooting your PC (you won;t have GUI at that point) and reinstall these.

I purged nvidia drivers and switched to open driver. I try to load with old kernel. I reach stability only with nomodeset option in grub.

Rkward working only with
QT_QUICK_BACKEND=software rkward
even if i run it from live usb

I suppose it was this complex problem with kernel, drivers, qt6.

I’m out of ideas! Sorry :frowning:

I’m running the latest 575.64.03 proprietary drivers via the Nvidia launchpad PPA and I’ve encountered no issues whatsoever with the latest 6.14 kernel under KDE Neon 6.4.3 - 6.14 isn’t that bleeding edge that DKMS should really have an issue rebuilding the kernel module for 6.14 anyway.

To the OP, how did you install the drivers to begin with? Did you download the binaries direct from Nvidia and was a .run script involved at all?

I install drivers via sufteare-properties.
Now i get back to the open drivers but system is still unstable. Only nomodeset helps me.

Sorry, is that ‘software-properties’? What distro are you using?

KDE Neon
software-propertes-qt
Old program that have additional drivers tab.

I’ll try to install via apt with
ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

I can’t find anything recent on software-properties-qt, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that was the cause of your problem.

You may have to purge the drivers and reinstall the latest 575’s from scratch using apt.

I add ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa and install nvidia-driver-575 via apt
add
quiet splash nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 nvidia-drm.modeset=1
into etc/default/grub

Rkward is starting well.
I’ll test firefix with youtube for freezing.
Thanks a lot for help.

Great news!

No problem.