What is curious is that this hasn't been happening until (some version
of) recently?
My hardware setup has been stable for a year or so, so I'm guessing somethign
has changed in Fedora build which has caused this.
I could submit a bug to Fedora - but I'd appreciate phrasing since I'm nowhere
near knowledgable, if that would help?
regards
On 6 July 2015 at 14:07, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Dave Pawson
<dave.pawson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Success.. with a tiny proviso.
> I tried it running Gnome in a command line. No error message shown, just
> nothing
> happened. (I should have known / guessed)
> Rebooted, failed, ^-ALT-F3 to get a CLI. Log in as root
> Ran the command /usr/sbin/akmods --force
> and akmods built.
> # reboot
> and I'm in business again.
There is a reason that they failed to rebuild right after kernel update but
it's likely to be the same problem others have experienced, dnf not
releasing it's lock on the rpm database soon enough.
They are not enabled by default (there's a special list of services allowed
to be enabled by default, and akmods isn't on it) but there are two systemd
services you can enable that help in this specific situation.
You can try as root (or sudo):
$ systemctl enable akmods.service
and/or
$ systemctl enable akmods-shutdown.service
The first attempts another rebuild during the boot cycle and the other on
shutdown. Of course if there's a different problem, for instance something
changed in the kernel that the binary drivers haven't accounted for, then
obviously it won't help there.
I'd like to find a way to notify the user on failure but haven't found a
simple way to do that.
Thanks,
Richard
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