Hi
I've got a Fedora 23 desktop that I thought was time to upgrade to Fedora 24. I followed these instructions https://fedoramagazine.org/upgrading-fedora-23-workstation-to-fedora-24
And because I have nvidia kernel modules from rpmfusion I also did dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-r elease-24.noarch.rpm dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-non free-release-24.noarch.rpm before fedup.
The upgrade process went without any problems until the first boot up with F24. All I got was a grey page with the text "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
With Ctrl-Alt-F2 I could get a terminal, and verified that I had a matching nvidia module for the new kernel. I tried to run the command nvidia-xconfig and reboot. I also tried to boot one of the F23 kernels. I tried to disconnect the second monitor if that would make any difference. All got was that grey page telling me that something was wrong. dmesg didn't provide any message that I though would be directly suspicious.
The graphics card is a Nvidia Quadro 600 (GF108GL)
How to recover?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mark mark2015@openmailbox.org wrote:
All I got was a grey page with the text "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
When using the Nvidia proprietary driver, when I have this happen, the only way I have successfully recovered is to uninstall everything *nvidia* and reinstall clean. I just finished doing that yesterday.
--Greg
On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 12:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mark mark2015@openmailbox.org wrote:
All I got was a grey page with the text "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
When using the Nvidia proprietary driver, when I have this happen, the only way I have successfully recovered is to uninstall everything *nvidia* and reinstall clean. I just finished doing that yesterday.
Thanks Greg. That did the trick
doesn't the nVidia installer uninstall everything nvidia before it installs the version in the invoked installer run file? I mean is there something else I should invoke or do to make sure I've uninstalled everything nvidia? I'm having somewhat of a similar problem but re-running the installer which tells me it is uninstalling the installed version isn't helping.
regards,
Joe Verreau Durand, MI
On 11/04/2016 09:23 AM, Mark wrote:
On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 12:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mark mark2015@openmailbox.org wrote:
All I got was a grey page with the text "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
When using the Nvidia proprietary driver, when I have this happen, the only way I have successfully recovered is to uninstall everything *nvidia* and reinstall clean. I just finished doing that yesterday.
Thanks Greg. That did the trick _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 09:33 -0500, joev.8450 wrote:
doesn't the nVidia installer uninstall everything nvidia before it installs the version in the invoked installer run file? I mean is there something else I should invoke or do to make sure I've uninstalled everything nvidia? I'm having somewhat of a similar problem but re-running the installer which tells me it is uninstalling the installed version isn't helping.
What I did was to use 'rpm -e' to remove all nvidia related packages and then 'yum install' to get those same packages back.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:33 AM, joev.8450 joev.8450@gmail.com wrote:
doesn't the nVidia installer uninstall everything nvidia before it installs the version in the invoked installer run file?
I wouldn't know as I always install everything from packages, and that's what Mark is doing as well. For me, I use rpmfusion as the repo and they maintain Nvidia driver packages. I don't know exactly why this happens, but I have seen cases where updating a kernel and installing the new driver with a normal "dnf update" puts the Nvidia stuff in a screwed-up state where GNOME won't work. The way I have fixed it is just "dnf remove *nvidia*" and then reinstall the nvidia packages I need from scratch.
--Greg