Botched fedup F23 -> F24 with nvidia

[Mark]

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?

[Greg Woods]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mark  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

[Mark]

On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 12:28 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Mark 
> 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

[joev.8450]

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 
> > 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
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[Mark]

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.

[Greg Woods]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:33 AM, joev.8450  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