I'm running Gnome 47 with GDM and wayland, but happens with X11 too. After installing nvidia-drivers-570.86.16 (and -r1), GDM Login screen shows up normally. After typing my credentials and hitting enter, screen goes black and system becomes unusable. Even switching to a console isn't possible. I can, however, login via ssh to gain access. Looking at the journal, I can see a "kernel oops" with "kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference" right after gdm-password. Attached it as a file. reverting to nvidia-drivers-565.77 (which unfortunately has been removed from tree) manually, everything works again. I tried this several times with kernels 6.13.0, 6.13.1 and 6.13.2 without success. I'm actually running kernel 6.12.10 and nvidia-drivers-565.77 without problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install kernel 6.13.* and nvidia-drivers-570.86.16(-r1) 2. restart 3. try to login Actual Results: kernel oops and black screen Expected Results: successfully loading Gnome desktop environment
Created attachment 918621 [details] emerge --info
Created attachment 918622 [details] kernel oops
Can't reproduce with my hardware (a single 1070 card), used gentoo-kernel-bin-6.13.2 + nvidia-drivers-570.86.16-r1 and then logged into Gnome+Wayland and everything "seems" fine. First time I hear such report, so I assume it's not widespread. Maybe there's something in the nvidia 570 feedback thread[1] or other distros' bug trackers, but I haven't looked closely. Could be hardware specific (this happens often, esp. with laptops), specific to some kernel option (try kernel-bin if in doubt), or "maybe" some gnome settings (I'm using stock settings for testing). Either way, do not think anything that we can do downstream about this and will need to report to nvidia instead (or wait for the next version while hoping it got fixed). I "would" restore 565.77 for convenience, but that branch is: 1. dead (no longer supported by nvidia) 2. broken with kernel 6.13.x (bug #948478) 3. affected by known security vulnerabilities (bug #948212), and we try to avoid keeping vulnerable packages in the tree, can't really suggest using it Instead should use the production branch (stable 550.x) meanwhile if have issues (which works with 6.13.x and has fixed the security issues, it's *newer* than 565.77), albeit it does have worse wayland support and may have to use Xorg for now depending on setup (esp. Plasma, gnome might be fine). That aside, to be sure, your user is in the video group right? It "shouldn't" cause a kernel OOPS but when the login manager works (which is in video group) but the DE itself doesn't, it's often related and I'm not sure what effect not being in the group have on wayland esp. with the newer related changes in 570. [1] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/570-release-feedback-discussion/321956
