On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM Stephen Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM Neal Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I ran the usual dnf update today, but this time it brought problems. I >> rebooted (since it had some big updates to kde), but on reboot the >> graphical mode showed the Fedora logo and the spinner, but then just >> froze. I was able to get to a tty. At this point I'm just going to run >> the F43 update which I hope will restore it. This is the first time I've >> seen an update cause such an issue. I tried a quick look at journalctl in >> tty mode, but didn't see anything interesting. >> >> Update to F43 worked and graphical mode is working again. I had put off > the update because I need xpra > 6, which is currently in updates-testing. > I went ahead with the F43 update, which downgraded xpra, and then I removed > xpra* and installed it from updates-testing. > > Hi Neal, I've just posted another thread where I'm reporting the same > issue you have after I updated yesterday which also installed kernel > 6.17.5, but using nvidia drivers I checked journalctl for nvidia messages > and found a message that the nvidia module failed to load and it was > falling back to nouveau. I don't understand what the issue is because > booting into kernel 6.17.4, which was working, also gets the same issue. > Under 6.17.4 I was able to issue ctrl+alt+F2 to get a console to login with > where is issued startx which successfully loaded a Gnome desktop (I > normally use KDE), hence the journalctl results. I'm going to try an akmods > build of the nvidia driver again hoping it is that the module hasn't built > properly rather than the module has lost its Secure Boot signature. > > The journalctl nvidia message was: > > Nov 04 07:17:20 fedora systemd[1]: nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to > nouveau as nvidia did not load was skipped because of an unmet condition > check (ConditionPathExists=!/sys/module/nvidia) > > Without knowing exactly what the message means it looks to me like maybe a > KDE module has been changed by mistake to verify that path doesn't exist > rather than check that the path does exist (I would expect it to exist). > > regards, > Possibly related, but I'm using plain old intel graphics here.
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