Fedora 17 not booting after installing akmod nvidia driver

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 12:39:57 UTC 2012


Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am revisiting the same problem that I faced with Fedora 16, and the
> reason I could not use it. I installed 'akmod' and 'nvidia settings'
> from Yumex and when rebooted the screen was stuck at /
> 
> em1: link becomes ready/
> 
> I logged into tty3 and then removed akmod nvidia
> [root at localhost ~]# yum remove akmod-nvidia.x86_64
> [root at localhost ~]# yum remove akmods.noarch
> 
> and now system is booting well. What is the problem? How can I use
> nvidia drivers without this issue. I am liking Fedora 17 very much and
> would like to continue to use it as my primary OS along with Ubuntu.
> 
> Swapnil

Please see:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2353



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