Initrd does not get updated when installing new nvidia driver

[throttlemeister]

Problem:
When installing a new nvidia driver (possibly others as well), the user is dropped to console upon reboot. Dmesg will show NVRM: Api mismatch. This is caused by the driver being of the old version, and the client being the newly updated version.

Cause:
initrd is not automaically updated after install of the nvidia driver. Manually regenerating the initrd by executing dracut --regenerate-all --force and manually copying the new initrd over the the one in /boot/efi/opensuse-tumbleweed/<kernel-version> will fix the problem and allow booting into the GUI once more

Solution:
Update initrd automatically as part of the post-install scripts for systemd-boot when a kernel module is updated. Ie adding kmp-* scripts currently not present under /usr/lib/module-init-tools/kernel-scriptlets may be all that is needed?

[lnussel]

yes, kmps are currently not well integrated. You can regnerate the initrd by using sdbootutil add-all-kernels --no-reuse-initrd

[throttlemeister]

Thanks, that's easier / quiker than dracut --regerenate-all --force and then copying over the original in /boot/efi/opensuse.../ what I was doing until now
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[TobiPeterG]

How could handling kmps be improved?

[TobiPeterG]

should be solved with openSUSE/suse-module-tools#103