On 11/3/25 1:07 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
I did a system update yesterday which installed kernel 6.17.5 plus a host of other packages and now when I boot after all the boot messages are finished, it switches to a black screen and goes no further. In this state with kernel 6.17.5 using ctrl+alt+F2 does nothing, but if I boot into kernel 6.17.4 I still get the black screen issue but I can use ctrl+alt+F2 to switch to a console so that I can login. After logging in I can run startx which gets me to a Gnome Desktop where I can write this email. Looking at journalctl for nvidia message I found the message Nov 04 07:17:20 fedora systemd[1]: nvidia-fallback.service - Fallback to nouveau as nvidiadid not load was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=!/sys/module/nvidia) but I don't understand what that message means particularly when the kernel 6.17.4 module was working fine but not since yesterdays update. I haven't rerun akmods yet to see if that corrects the issue or whether the issue is the module has lost its Secure Boot signature which I have had happen a few times in the past. Looking at the above message I have determined that the specified path does exist and is not empty, unless the message is indicating that it is expecting to not find that path?
If you install a new kernel, then akmods needs to run to update the kernel module. It should run automatically, but maybe it failed for some reason. Try running "akmods" to see what happens.
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