Akmods.service takes longer time than required on boot

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Hello! I have been in the pursuit of decreasing my boot times past 2 days. I have installed my Nvidia drivers from RPMFusion. I also use a SATA SSD, without any encryption if it has to do with anything.

This is what systemd-analyze shows me

Startup finished in 8.512s (firmware) + 5.177s (loader) + 4.430s (kernel) + 3.074s (initrd) + 27.963s (userspace) = 49.158s graphical.target reached after 27.948s in userspace

upon looking into systemd-analyze critical-chain here are the results i see

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clearly, time taken by akmods.service is abnormally high. Here is what systemctl status akmods shows me

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here is what rpm -qa | grep ^kmod shows me

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i think it is nvidia kmod causing issues here and causing my high boot times

any help is appreciated, thank you for reading!

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That is only once you install a new kernel, that modules for the nvidia driver are being built? It can take a while but on the next boot, there shouldn’t be a rebuilding (unless you install yet another new kernel). Please confirm.

Also, please dont’t post pictures of text, paste the text and use the formatting tools instead, see why. Thanks.

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The modules seem to rebuild after EVERY boot.

i did discuss this issue in fedora discord server, werent quite able to understand what could be causing it.

also, the text formatting was kinda broken(for ex: the critical chain came in a horizontal form instead of the intended one)