[arch-general] startx failed: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Operation not permitted

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:14:28 +0100
Csányi Pál <csanyipal at gmail.com>:

> I looked into kernel log with 'dmesg | less' and searched for NVIDIA.
> I found followings:
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> nvidia disagrees about version of symbol node_data
> nvidia: Unknown symbol node_data (err -22)
> 
> What can I do to solve this problem?

If a reboot didn't fix it (for unloading/blacklisting nouveau), I'd say
post a bug report so that nvidia-304xx-lts gets rebuilt.

For that's what it seems to be, looking at the last bug about "symbol
node_data" and comparing the build dates of linux-lts and the different
nvidia packages.

--byte