Fedora 24

[Dave Pawson]

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On 29 June 2016 at 10:16, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

>
> The only thing that should be noted is this...
>
> I'm pretty sure that F24 was released with 4.5.5-300 kernel and it seems that that is the
> latest version available on the rpmfusion repo.
>
> But, very shortly after F24 was released the kernel in Fedora was update to 4.5.7-300.
> So, if you upgraded your system via dnf and were using the akmod it would/should have
> built the corresponding kmod-nvidia package.  Now, the only rub is that it will have been
> rebuilt on the first boot into F24 BUT there is no message to the console that the package
> is getting built and it can take several minutes to build depending on the hardware.  In
> the meantime you'd be left with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the screen
> and some people may think boot has failed and then abort the procedure.


Being nosy, I nearly always hit escape, which shows the boot progress?
I don't think I would have missed a 'long' rebuild message?

Would any of that be recorded in the system logs to find out?

regards


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