Re: nvidia304 hangs with fc23 kernel - SOLVED
On 30/06/16 11:48, John Pilkington wrote:
Yesterday I ran dnf system upgrade from fc22 to fc23. It all seemed
very smooth (4185 packages) until it rebooted to emergency mode. After
repairs by fsck it runs happily under 4.4.13-200.fc22 but just hangs
with a black screen and a flashing cursor with 4.5.7-200.fc23
yumex-dnf seems inconsistent in reporting the state of the fc23 kernel,
akmod-nvidia-304xx and kmod. Now it is showing them as uninstalled,
with 'Error(s) in search for dependencies' if I try to install the
current 4.5.7-200.fc23
An attempt to install 4.2.3-300.fc23 is apparently seen as a downgrade
of 4.4.12-200.fc22 (not the running kernel) and is then rejected as
conflicting.
I suppose I can continue as is until the next kernel appears - but a fix
would be better :-)
Solved. While running with 4.4.13-200.fc22, from yumex-dnf I erased the
existing kmod-nvidia-304xx for the fc23 kernel. Then, as root,
# akmods --kernels 4.5.7-200.fc23.x86_64
which reported that it was building and installing nvidia-304xx-kmod,
and appeared to exit cleanly after several tens of seconds.
Rebooted with the fc23 kernel and all seems fine.
I was able to rpmbuild --rebuild the rpmfusion mythtv-0.28-3.fc24 srpm,
and have it running now. Strangely, an attempt to update my earlier
fc22 build of mythtv master failed with qt5 problems.
John P