I’m having quite a difficult time getting the NVIDIA driver properly installed on CentOS 7.6. Upon reboot, X won’t start.
Hardware:
- HP Z8 G4
- 1x Intel Xeon Gold 6152
- 2x RTX 2080 Ti
- 48 GB DDR4 RAM
Steps to reproduce:
- Clean installation of CentOS 7.6 with only GNOME installed
- Install all software updates and reboot
- After reboot, kernel in use is 3.10.0-957.21.2.el7.x86_64
- Install kernel development headers: ``` $ sudo yum install "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)" ```
- Install EPEL: ``` $ sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm ```
- Install DKMS: ``` $ sudo yum install dkms ```
- Install ELRepo: ``` $ sudo rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-3.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm ```
- Reboot
- Install NVIDIA driver from ELRepo:
```
$ sudo yum install kmod-nvidia.x86_64
```
This purportedly blacklists nouveau and installs 430.26, in particular, 430.26-1.el7_6.elrepo
- Reboot
Expected results:
- X and gdm start with the 430.26 driver perfectly installed
Actual results:
- Boot screen hangs
- Last message reads: ``` [ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager....ices....shutdown.... ```
I will attach my nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.61 MB)