Black screen on boot after upgrading to Fedora cinnamon 39

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

It has been noted by several that a full release version upgrade may not properly build the nvidia drivers and they do not properly load after the upgrade.

One fix that usually works is

1. Remove the failing modules with sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia-\*
2. Build the modules new for the running system with sudo akmods --force
3. Wait about 1 minute after step 2 completes then reboot.

For most this seems to fix the problem.

Third-party modules (e.g. Nvidia) are not rebuilt during system upgrade

Problem If you use a third-party kernel module (the most common is the Nvidia closed driver, but this might also apply to some wireless card drivers, VirtualBox, etc), it won’t be rebuilt during a system upgrade to a newer Fedora version. That means your kernel module (and the affected hardware) might not work directly after the system upgrade. In case of Nvidia, that might mean using a slow fallback graphical driver, or even failing to boot to a graphical environment at all. Note: This proble…