On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 04:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 08/17/15 03:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2015-08-16 at 14:37 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
thanks! I installed the akmod-nvidia package..
This generally works, however be aware that there is currently an issue when updating your system via dnf. If a new kernel is installed, the akmod system will create a new kmod rpm and then try to install it. Quite often the installation will fail because the calling dnf command still holds a lock on the database, but you won't know this until you reboot your nice new kernel and suddenly the video doesn't work.
The workaround is to check /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/.last.log after a new kernel has been installed but before booting. If it shows an error (jump to the end of the file) you still have time to manually install the new rpm before rebooting.
I was having this problem as well. But there were some recent changes and even though the rpm isn't getting installed during the "dnf update" phase as long as I have akmods-shutdown.service enabled the rpm gets rebuilt and installed during the reboot.
I do have it enabled and yet last time I still had to do the manual install. At any rate the log showed an error due to locking.
poc