Fedora 24

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/29/16 19:01, Dave Pawson wrote:
> See inline response
>
> 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?

The rebuilding process doesn't produce any screen output.  So no matter what you hit on
the keyboard nothing will show.  Just, like a said, a blinking cursor.
>
> Would any of that be recorded in the system logs to find out?
>
>
You may see some log entries at the time of rebuild in /var/cache/akmods/akmods.log