F16 failure to completely boot - hangs at 'Started Display Manager'

[Bill Davidsen]

Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/08/2012 10:25 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Did you by any chance have a 3rd party (aka working) video driver
>> installed, such as from another repo like rpmfusion? If so, there may
>> have been an updated kernel in your "failed update" and your
>> kmod-whatever is unable to update.
>
> There's been about a day's delay for kmod-nvidia on the last several kernel
> updates. I have both kmod and akmod installed so it's not been an issue here,
> but if you're only using kmod you might not notice that there's a reason not to
> boot into the new kernel just yet.

Sage advice, indeed.

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