I'm not sure where the problem lies, so I'll start out with where I'm coming from...

I built a machine 2 years ago to support the Folding@Home project

using F32 and an Nvidia 2060 card.

It's been running non-stop ever since.

But I want to update the system to the latest and greatest release and drivers

(since it appears that my old? CUDA drivers have stopped working with F@H)

So first I updated all my packages using dnf and attempted a reboot

(into the new kernel) and that's where the first problem appeared.

The boot process hangs with the last message on the screen being

"Notify NFS peers of a restart"

(I don't have any NFS configured on this machine.)

So I rebooted with my old working kernel and examined /var/log/messages

and I see:

Jan  1 12:36:10 localhost sh[972]: (bad exit status: 2)

Jan  1 12:36:10 localhost sh[4378]: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.11.22-100.fc32.x86_64 (x86_64)

Jan  1 12:36:10 localhost sh[4378]: Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/440.82/build/make.log for more information.

Looking at that file, I see a variety of errors basically telling me there's

incompatibilities between the stuff Nvidia uses to get itself 'linked in' at boot

time, and what the kernel is now providing.

If I can't get to a GUI screen to be able to fetch and install newer NVIDIA drivers

how can I get my system updated?

Suggestions welcome.

TIA

Fulko