Hi all,
The symptom is that after the system starts booting, it prompts for the disk encryption password. After that, it just hangs, either with the boot screen hanging/freezing, or moving over to a black screen. Then it just hangs.
While on Fedora 43, I had the official Nvidia proprietary drivers installed. After the system upgrade, nvidia-smi tool started to show an error saying: NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
I have uninstalled the proprietary drivers with sudo dnf remove nvidia-driver. After that, I have followed the “Uninstall the NVIDIA driver” and " Recover from NVIDIA installer" parts of the rpmfusion install guide . Then, I have followed the instructions on the Configuration page, then Howto/Secure Boot , then Current GeForce/Quadro/Tesla . Waited for the transaction to finish and kmod to build.
Running modinfo outputs the following:
$ modinfo -l nvidia && modinfo -F version nvidia
Dual MIT/GPL
595.80
$mokutil --sb-state
SecureBoot enabled
I did akmods --rebuild --force, also dracut --force, but with no success.
[Update]: nvidia-smi is able to communicate with the driver now, but it finds no running processes.
Please help
I don’t see how you have managed to type those commands.
That said, try the following:
reboot
at the grub prompt, edit the linux line:
suppress rhgb and quiet
add 3 nomodeset
You should normally get only a textual login. Log in and try:
sudo modprobe nvidia
sudo nvidia-smi
if that fails:
sudo journalctl -b --no-hostname | fpaste
then post here the obtained URL for this paste.
I was able to run the mentioned (by me) commands by editing the boot command in grub adding only 3 at the end and logging in.
In the meantime, I have tried what you’ve said and the commands did not fail. Although sudo modprobe nvidia had no output.
That’s good: meaning that the nvidia module has been loaded.lsmod | grep nvidia
Now one may suspect that the upgrade to F44 is partial:
sudo dnf check should give no outputsudo dnf repolist should list Fedora 44 repos, no F43 ones
Can you verify that?
gnwiii
June 7, 2026, 4:58pm
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When reporting an issue you should provide enough detail to allow others with similar hardware to reproduce the issue. Please read https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/inxi-the-help-to-help-your-selves/180413 . You can also avoid wasting time on solved problems by installing all Fedora and vendor firmware updates. This also makes replicating your issue easier for others with access to similar hardware.
Sure thing.sudo dnf check did not return anything and sudo dnf repolist returned Fedora 44 repos only. Should I post the output here? If so, how can I do that with no GUI?
Which GPU do you have? My first guess is that you may be hitting common issue: Upgrading to Fedora 44 breaks Nvidia driver for older GPUs (GeForce 10xx and older)
But as others have said, we need to see your log to get a better idea of what exactly is happening.
I have Nidia Geforce RTX 2070 Max-Q.
OK, so it’s something else unfortunately. Will need to see the log.
Right. do for example: inxi -Fzxx | fpaste then post here the obtained URL.
Thank you. I’m still learning this
To have a proper log in this 3 “runlevel”, try:
sudo systemctl start display-managerif it still freezes:
try to switch back to the textual login
execute from it: sudo journalctl -b --no-hostname | fpaste
post here the URL
From the fpaste:
inxi -fzxx
System:
Kernel: 7.0.11-200.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.1.1
Console: tty 1 DM: SDDM Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware m15 R2 v: 1.25.0 serial: <superuser required>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Alienware model: Alienware m15 R2 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 093B
Firmware: UEFI vendor: Alienware v: 1.25.0 date: 12/14/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 25 Wh (99%) condition: 25.3/76 Wh (33.3%) volts: 13.16 min: 11.4
model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 serial: <filter> charging: status: charging cycles: N/A
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache:
L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4500 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800
7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 62399
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell driver: N/A arch: Gen-9.5
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia v: 595.80
arch: Turing pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f10
Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-7:3 chip-ID: 0bda:5538
Display: unspecified server: Xwayland driver: N/A tty: 100x37
Monitor-1: Unknown-1 size-res: N/A in console
API: EGL Message: No EGL data available.
API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console. Try -G --display
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: cpu driver: mesa llvmpipe
device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor
gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 300/C240 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348
Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f9
API: ALSA v: k7.0.11-200.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.6 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: off 2: wireplumber
status: off 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek Killer E3000 2.5GbE vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 3d:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:3000
IF: enp61s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 3e:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd
IF: wlp62s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2 lmp-v: 8
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 182.55 GiB (38.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: KIOXIA model: KXG60ZNV512G NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 32.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 474.34 GiB used: 181.69 GiB (38.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
mapped: luks-f0b4ac46-7cec-41b6-a1d3-aa1e4a7b557e
ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 860.5 MiB (44.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 20 MiB (3.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 474.34 GiB used: 181.69 GiB (38.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
mapped: luks-f0b4ac46-7cec-41b6-a1d3-aa1e4a7b557e
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C pch: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 43 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.4 GiB used: 925.9 MiB (5.9%)
Processes: 251 Power: uptime: 31m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 259 default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: gcc: 16.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9
running-in: tty 1 inxi: 3.3.40
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Unfortunately it freezed, so here’s the output:
Something is wrong:
one sees your call of sudo journalctl in this log
but no call of sudo systemctl
Can you redo those steps please.
I see. Than I have misunderstood it and should have been able to switch back to textual without system restart. How can I do that? Sorry, I’m still a noob in these.
Ok. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 should have switched you back to the textual login.
sudo journalctl -b -1 --no-hostname | fpaste
-1 means the previous boot.
Otherwise:
list the boot with: journalctl --list-boots
fpaste the proper one with (-2 here as example)
sudo journalctl -b -2 --no-hostname | fpaste
I see that the intel gpu (iGPU) does not load the driver.
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell driver: N/A arch: Gen-9.5
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
This could very well be the cause of failure to load the GUI desktop.
I see. Do you have any suggestions, next steps?
