installing akmod-nividia on F20 - machine hang after reboot, "Started Builds ..."

[David Shwatrz]

Hello, fedora users,
I have an Nvidia graphic card. Instead of using the default nouveau
driver, I installed akmod-nvidia (simply by yum -y install
akmod-nvidia)

Now first time after installing akmod-nvidia and restarting the
machine boot hanged with this message:
[OK] Started Builds and install kmods from akmod packages.

I waited for more than 10 minutes and nothing happened, I cannot boot.
Any ideas ? what should I do so that it will boot OK ?

regards,
DavidS

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/09/2014 02:07 PM, bitlord wrote:
>  It is possible that you are missing kernel-devel package
>  use this for installinghttp://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia
>  also if you are interested why it doesn't install 'kernel-devel'
>  package, look herehttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047041 
It's also possible that the appropriate xorg-x11-drv-nvidia files 
weren't installed.  Having the kmod doesn't do much good if there's 
nothing available to make use of it.  Please run:

yum list installed \*nvidia\*

(Root access not needed) and let us know what files it reports.

[Branko Grubic]

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 20:25 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote:
>  Hello, fedora users,
>  I have an Nvidia graphic card. Instead of using the default nouveau
>  driver, I installed akmod-nvidia (simply by yum -y install
>  akmod-nvidia)
>  
>  Now first time after installing akmod-nvidia and restarting the
>  machine boot hanged with this message:
>  [OK] Started Builds and install kmods from akmod packages.
>  
>  I waited for more than 10 minutes and nothing happened, I cannot boot.
>  Any ideas ? what should I do so that it will boot OK ?
>  
>  regards,
>  DavidS 
It is possible that you are missing kernel-devel package 
use this for installing  http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia  
also if you are interested why it doesn't install 'kernel-devel'
package, look here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047041

[Richard Shaw]

I don't know why it would hang, but did you also install gcc,
kernel-headers, kernel-devel?

Richard