Nvidia cards and Fedora 22 kernel upgrades

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson at 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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