Error! nvidia/570.124.04: Missing the module source directory or the symbolic link pointing to it

During recent updates, various versions of the following error(s) has been reported:

Error! nvidia/570.124.04: Missing the module source directory or the symbolic link pointing to it.
Manual intervention is required!
==> dkms remove --no-depmod nvidia/570.133.07 -k 6.13.7-arch1-1
==> depmod 6.13.7-zen1-1-zen
==> depmod 6.13.7-arch1-1
depmod: WARNING: could not open modules.order at /lib/modules/6.13.7-arch1-1: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open modules.builtin at /lib/modules/6.13.7-arch1-1: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open modules.builtin.modinfo at /lib/modules/6.13.7-arch1-1: No such file or directory

My system seems to work correctly, but I want the devs to know about this, and to learn if this is anything I need to be concerned about.

My garuda-inxi:

System: 
 Kernel: 6.13.8-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1 
   clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm 
   parameters: root=UUID=0d9464f4-03b3-4292-9628-5ade9ca7aefe rw 
   rootflags=subvol=@ quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off 
   initrd=@\boot\initramfs-linux-zen.img 
 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.3 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM 
   Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux 
Machine: 
 Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82AU v: Lenovo Legion 5 15IMH05 
   serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo Legion 5 15IMH05 
   serial: <filter> 
 Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0R32862 WIN serial: <filter> 
   part-nu: LENOVO_MT_82AU_BU_idea_FM_Legion 5 15IMH05 
   uuid: 50ef4d03-a18c-11eb-80ef-38f3ab90854a UEFI: LENOVO v: EFCN59WW 
   date: 06/09/2023 
Battery: 
 ID-1: BAT0 charge: 54.9 Wh (95.0%) condition: 57.8/60.0 Wh (96.4%) 
   volts: 17.1 min: 15.4 model: Celxpert L19C4PC0 type: Li-poly 
   serial: <filter> status: not charging cycles: 15 
CPU: 
 Info: model: Intel Core i7-10750H socket: U3E1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
   arch: Comet Lake gen: core 10 level: v3 note: check built: 2020 
   process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 2 
   microcode: 0xFC 
 Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 6 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2 
   smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB 
   desc: 6x256 KiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB 
 Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/5000 base/boost: 2475/5000 scaling: 
   driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 0.8 V ext-clock: 100 MHz 
   cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 
   10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 62399 
 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
 Vulnerabilities: <filter> 
Graphics: 
 Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo 
   driver: nvidia v: 570.133.07 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm 
   non-free: 550/565.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-01; EOL~2026-12-xx) 
   arch: Turing code: TUxxx process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: 
   gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: 
   active: none off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
   chip-ID: 10de:1f99 class-ID: 0300 
 Device-2: Bison Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 
   speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 5986:2137 
   class-ID: 0e02 
 Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 
   compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia 
   unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa 
   gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :1 screens: 1 
 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26") 
   s-diag: 583mm (22.95") monitors: <missing: xrandr> 
 Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0900 built: 2019 res: 1920x1080 
   dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") 
   ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080 
 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm: 
   drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland 
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.133.07 glx-v: 1.4 
   direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2 
   memory: 3.91 GiB 
 API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 6 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu 
   name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:1f99 
   surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 256 
   bits) driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib 
 Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo 
   de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi 
   wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo,xprop 
Audio: 
 Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
   v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
   chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403 
 Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: 
   gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa 
   class-ID: 0403 
 API: ALSA v: k6.13.8-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A 
 Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: n/a (root, process) with: 
   1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 
   3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin 
   tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl 
Network: 
 Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
   bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280 
 IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter> 
 Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
   vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 
   port: 3000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
 IF: enp7s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
 Device-3: Realtek 802.11ax WLAN Adapter driver: rtl8852bu type: USB 
   rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 2-1:2 
   chip-ID: 0bda:b832 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
 IF: wlp0s20f0u1 state: down mac: <filter> 
 Info: services: NetworkManager, smbd, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant 
Bluetooth: 
 Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 
   speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026 
   class-ID: e001 
 Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: not found 
   rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends 
Drives: 
 Local Storage: total: 2.29 TiB used: 30.05 GiB (1.3%) 
 SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
 ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix 
   model: HFM512GDHTNI-87A0B size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
   logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> 
   fw-rev: 11020C00 temp: 34.9 C scheme: GPT 
 ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital 
   model: WD20SDZW-11JJ8S0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
   logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.1 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 
   tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1026 scheme: MBR 
Partition: 
 ID-1: / raw-size: 154.74 GiB size: 154.74 GiB (100.00%) 
   used: 13.34 GiB (8.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 
   maj-min: 259:6 
 ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 2 GiB size: 2 GiB (99.80%) used: 45.3 MiB (2.2%) 
   fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
 ID-3: /home raw-size: 74.73 GiB size: 74.73 GiB (100.00%) 
   used: 16.66 GiB (22.3%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 
   maj-min: 259:7 
 ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 154.74 GiB size: 154.74 GiB (100.00%) 
   used: 13.34 GiB (8.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 
   maj-min: 259:6 
 ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 154.74 GiB size: 154.74 GiB (100.00%) 
   used: 13.34 GiB (8.6%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 
   maj-min: 259:6 
Swap: 
 Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no 
 ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.25 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 
   comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 max-streams: 12 
   dev: /dev/zram0 
 ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
   dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
Sensors: 
 System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C pch: 45.0 C mobo: N/A 
 Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A 
Info: 
 Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.25 GiB used: 2.65 GiB (8.5%) 
 Processes: 334 Power: uptime: 2h 16m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep 
   avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, 
   suspend, test_resume image: 12.43 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd 
   Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl 
 Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1256 libs: 385 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 
   Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: garuda-inxi (sudo) default: Bash v: 5.2.37 
   running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37 
Garuda (2.7.2-1): 
 System install date:     2025-03-20 
 Last full system update: 2025-03-24 
 Is partially upgraded:   No 
 Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms 
 Windows dual boot:       Yes 
 Failed units:            

Thank you for any feedback

Ernie

Please use the forum search engine. This is a query that has been answered countless times, even I have asked about it :grimacing:, but just put:

Missing the module source directory

You will get the results you are looking for, for example:

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