Speaking of nvidia and akmods, I just had an issue this morning. On my server I'm using nvidia proprietary driver from rpmfusion. Apparently it was updated (automatically) last night and when I tried to run experiments on the gpu this morning I got the dreaded version mismatch between the kernel driver and cuda library (or something).
I tried rebooting but that didn't fix the issue.
I tried running akmods manually but it didn't find anything to build. The man page for akmods was unhelpful, and looking in /lib/modules wasn't useful because you can't see the version numbers on the modules to see that everything is updated.
Finally I tried rebooting a 2nd time on the theory that the akmod got run and the driver built on the first reboot, but too late - the old driver had already loaded.
Surprise, that worked. So what's going on? It looks like akmod is run too late and 2 reboots are needed to get the new driver built and loaded?
I checked sudo systemctl status akmods ● akmods.service - Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/akmods.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Wed 2022-07-06 07:32:31 EDT; 28min ago Process: 1166 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/akmods --from-init (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1166 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 215ms
Jul 06 07:32:29 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Starting Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages... Jul 06 07:32:31 nbecker8 akmods[1166]: Checking kmods exist for 5.18.9-100.fc35.x86_64[ OK ] Jul 06 07:32:31 nbecker8 systemd[1]: Finished Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages.
Any ideas?