On Saturday, 13 April 2024 at 10:09, ognen <ognen@???> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A few days ago I made the mistake of upgrading from Chimaera to
> Daedalus. While the upgrade itself went fine, upon reboot my machine
> would hang indefinitely on "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated".
>
> I have since tried both a clean Chimaera and Daedalus reinstall. The
> machine boots fine until I install the nvidia xorg driver. After which
> I am back at the "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" kernel
> message.
>
> Has anyone seen this before? Got any ideas on how to get this working
> again?
>
> I need the extra features of the nvidia driver, but it seems the latest
> package version does not play well with the boot process.
>
> Thanks!

Is firmware-nvidia-gsp installed? If so does the version number match the rest of the nvidia packages?

Rob