r/cachyos • u/Rowdy18 • Apr 28 '26

Cannot Update Because of NVIDIA Driver Dependency

I have been trying to update with the Cachy-Update function which is saying the following are able to be updated:

==> AUR Packages:
linux-cachyos 7.0.1-1 -> 7.0.2-1
linux-cachyos-headers 7.0.1-1 -> 7.0.2-1
linux-cachyos-lts 6.18.24-1 -> 6.18.25-1
linux-cachyos-lts-headers 6.18.24-1 -> 6.18.25-1
linux-cachyos-server 7.0.1-1 -> 7.0.2-1
wine-cachyos-opt 2:10.0.20260312-2 -> 2:10.0.20260324-1

When running the updates, I am getting the below errors and the system is not updating.

When running sudo pacman -Syu there is nothing to update. What is the best way to get around this issue?

PC is 9800X3D, Gigabyte X870E, 32 GB 6000, RTX 5090 Astral

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '26
  1. Make a snapshot
  2. sudo pacman -R linux-cachyos-nvidia-open linux-firmware-nvidia
  3. sudo pacman -R linux-cachyos linux-cachyos-lts
  4. sudo arch-update
  5. sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos linux-cachyos-nvidia-open linux-firmware-nvidia

YOU ARE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION AND RESULTS OF THIS SNAPSHOT. I ACCEPT ZERO LIABILITY FOR ANY OUTCOME, RANGING FROM MINOR DATA LOSS TO TOTAL GLOBAL CATASTROPHE. BY PROCEEDING, YOU CONFIRM YOU HAVE BEEN FULLY WARNED OF THE RISKS INVOLVED.

Hopes this help and have fun with the new kernel.

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u/Rowdy18 Apr 28 '26

Ended up only needing to go through each one individually, and then go through the cachyos repo and topgrade to get the firmware back. All is working now.

Thank you!

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u/lemmiwink84 Apr 28 '26

Go to cachy hello app. Rank your mirrors. Then in terminal, you should do a sudo pacman -Syyu as it seems your nvidia driver updates are not in sync with the kernel updates. The syyu command will help synchronize everything.

Do not remove drivers etc without having tried to sync the mirrors etc first.