Description:

Hi,

I've tried installing nvidia-lts 1:535.104.05 twice now. And each time my early kms minitcpio failed with error messages indicating that the nvidia modules were not found. This includes nvidia, nvidia_drm, nvidia_uvm, and nvidia_modeset.

Additional info:
* package version(s) - nvidia-lts 1:535.104.05
* config and/or log files etc.

❯ cat /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook
[Trigger]
Operation=Install
Operation=Upgrade
Operation=Remove
Type=Package
#Target=nvidia
#Target=nvidia-dkms
Target=nvidia-lts
#Target=linux
Target=linux-lts
# Change the linux part above and in the Exec line if a different kernel is used

[Action]
Description=Update NVIDIA module in initcpio
Depends=mkinitcpio
When=PostTransaction
NeedsTargets
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do case $trg in linux-lts) exit 0; esac; done; /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P'

-> Relevant excerpt from my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file.
MODULES=(i915 nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

* link to upstream bug report, if any

Steps to reproduce:

Note: Take a system backup using a tool like linux-mint Timeshift.

1. Set up early KMS for MODULES=(i915 nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
2. Install the specified nvidia-lts package.
3. Let pacman hook run mkinitcpio or run it manually using sudo mkinitcpio -P
4. Notice the errors regarding the missing nvidia modules at the time of image / initramfs generation.
5. At this point the system fails to boot due to the missing nvidia modules.
6. Restore from backup using Timeshift.