I think so, after all the whole ZFS file system was experimental and still being worked through.
Is this how I was to revert settings??
len@len-Z390-AORUS-ULTRA:~$ sudo zfs set overlay=off canmount=off bpool
len@len-Z390-AORUS-ULTRA:~$
yes.
if you feel experimental, I thought you could enable the overlay and canmount again and mount the bpool and do a grub-install (man grub-install for more) there⊠but that might also break things totally⊠maybe better to ask the ubuntu guys first ;)
Might be something worth trying before a new install, I will see what Ubuntu forums have to say about this issue, now I think its beer OâClock again, most of Monday going to be taken up on this. Good night, thanks again for your help, cheers
Youâre welcome - cheers!
Let us know if you find a solution.
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Hi Mart
I found a partial solution that got my normal system back, and NVIDIA X Server Settings application up again. I have duel screen settings and 1920x1080 resolution functioning properly again.
The Nvidia 455.38 driver, (proprietary tested and recommended for Ubuntu 20.04.1LTS) is working with the 5.4.0-21-generic, x86_64: kernel installed.
len@len-Z390-AORUS-ULTRA:~$ uname -r
5.4.0-21-generic
len@len-Z390-AORUS-ULTRA:~$ dkms status
nvidia, 455.38, 5.3.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 455.38, 5.4.0-21-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 455.38, 5.4.0-54-generic, x86_64: installed
len@len-Z390-AORUS-ULTRA:~$
I found this article-
https://blog.iqonda.net/ubuntu-root-on-zfs-upgrading-kernels/
I was going to do a reinstall, as every time I rebooted my system I got an initramfs failure, failuer to decode, it has been like that since I upgraded from Ubuntu 19 to 20.04 LTS. I did not at that time look into the issue as it continued on through the reboot and booted fine, originally, untill the update to Ubuntu 20.04.1
Looking at the article I noticed this command- update-initramfs -c -k all
I could not resist, I run the command not even using a live cd/USB, rebooted and it worked!
The initramfs failure, failuer to decode is now gone from the reboot sequence, and Nvidia driver, 455.38, and kernel 5.4.0-21-generic, x86_64 play nice and everything works better and faster.
I love it when stuff works better and faster.
So at this stage, I am happy all is working, I am not too fused on shooting for gold and upgrading to nvidia, 455.38, with kernel 5.4.0-54-generic, x86_64
I sort of am the guy who thinks if it ainât broke, leave it the hell alone! Hahaha
A word of warning, read the article linked above very carefully if you have similar issues as I have experienced, ZFS is quirky and things can go bad quickly, I believe I was just lucky in this instance, get knowledgeable assistance.
lenscuba90
Just a bit of extra stuff-
When it was broken, sudo inxi -Fxz (showed above the following in
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070 Rev. A] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 435.21 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: fbdev,nouveau FAILED: nvidia
unloaded: modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~76Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.8
direct render: Yes
After it was fixed the new output was
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070 Rev. A] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 455.38 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce RTX 2070/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.38
direct render: Yes
Glad you got it working.
Updating the initramfs should automatically happen once you install a new kernel.
I donât know why that didnât happen. You didnât tell me your initramfs decode error, might have lead the right way much earlier ;-p
It was an old error I had lived with for 8 months or so, always completing the boot and not being that much of an inconvenience to me, so I did not suspect it to be the problem.
I agree though, wish I had thought to bring it up, but I learnt a lot more from the actual long way around to the fix, and thatâs a good thing.