Blackscreen after upgrade to 6.18.10-200

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Hey yall.

Pretty new to this, as I have literally just made an account for this issue, so apologies in advance if this has been solved before.

Basically, after updating to 6.18.10, my PC gets a black screen with only the cursor. SDDM works fine, and the issue happens after i log in.

Kernel 6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64 on x86_64 (tty4)


ippo@192:~$ uname -r
6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64

ippo@192:~$ lsmod | grep -E 'nvidia|nouveau'
nouveau              389688  15
mxm_wmi               12288  1 nouveau
wmi                   49152  1 nouveau
drm_sched             65536  1 nouveau
ttm                   16384  2 nouveau
drm_kms_helper       135168  2 drm_sched,nouveau
drm                  172288  3 drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit          28672  1 nouveau
drm_display_helper   131072  1 nouveau
video                 81920  1 nouveau
i2c_core              32768  3 video,gigabyte_wmi,wmi_bmof,nouveau

ippo@192:~$ sudo modprobe nvidia
[sudo] password for ippo:
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64

ippo@192:~$ echo $?
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So, while i do know the at my issue is with my Driver, I cant for the love of me figure out why it breaks.

From what i understand while the driver does exist in my PC but it doesn’t install.

if i do

sudo ls -1 /var/cache/akmods/nvidia
580.119.02-1-for-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64.log
580.119.02-1-for-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64.log
580.119.02-1-for-6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64.log
580.119.02-1-for-6.18.7-200.fc43.x86_64.log
580.119.02-1-for-6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64.log
kmod-nvidia-6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-6.18.7-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
kmod-nvidia-6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

The drivers are there.

At this point i am not really sure how to proceed. Any help would be much appreciated

specs straight out of fastfetch

OS: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Host: B460MDS3H
Kernel: Linux 6.18.9-200.fc43.x86_64
ptime: 17 mins
Packages: 3045 (rpm), 11 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.3.0
Display (LG ULTRAGEAR): 2560x1440 in 31", 180 Hz [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.0
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Lightly
Theme: Breeze (Stone) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3]

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400 (12) @ 4.30 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate [Discrete]
Memory: 3.75 GiB / 23.39 GiB (16%)
Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 432.50 GiB / 951.28 GiB (45%) - btrfs
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
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Please install and post the output of inxi -Fzxx (as preformatted text please - otherwise the output is a mess and much harder to read - use the </> above).

I assume you’re expecting to be using the rpmfusion nvidia drivers and not falling back to nouveau.

Please also post the output of mokutil --sb-state

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Paste please the end of the corresponding log.

  • tail -30 /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/580.119.02-1-for-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64.log

and also:

  • rpm -qi kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

Do that before trying to fix with sudo akmods

This is weird, if akmods had failed, the log should end with failed.log

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And also:

ls -l /lib/modules/6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64/modules.dep*
ls -l /lib/modules/6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64/extra/nvidia

I suspect that depmod had failed in the postinstall of the kmod rpm.

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This is every log that was requested by you guys.

ippo192:~$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
  Kernel: 6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
  Console: tty 3 DM: SDDM Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)

Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B460MDS3H v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: B460M DS3H v: x.x serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI
  vendor: American Megatrends v: F5e date: 10/05/2021

Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter>
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging

CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i5-10400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake rev: 5 cache:
  L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4300 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: 69597
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nouveau
  v: kernel arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-2
  empty: DP-1, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2504
  Display: unspecified server: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: nouveau
  tty: 320x90
  Monitor-1: DP-2 model: LG (GoldStar) UltraGear res: 2560x1440 dpi: 93 diag: 800mm (31.5")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: zink device: 1 drv: zink
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.3.5 note: console (EGL sourced)
  renderer: zink Vulkan 1.4(NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (NGA106) (MESA_NVK)), llvmpipe (LLVM)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu driver: mesa nvk
  device: 1 type: cpu driver: mesa llvmpipe

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-V cAVS vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
  bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a3f0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel
  bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
  API: ALSA v: 1.2.10 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.10 status: active
  2: wireplumber status: active

Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte
  driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller (RAID mode) driver: ahci v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:17.0
  chip-ID: 8086:2822

Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.37 TiB used: 435.2 GiB (31.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intenso model: SSD NVME size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
  serial: <filter> temp: 31.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSTFS31480GNTD size: 447.13 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
  serial: <filter> temp: 33 C

Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 951.28 GiB used: 434.39 GiB (45.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 805.5 MiB (41.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 951.28 GiB used: 434.39 GiB (45.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3

Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0

ippo192:~$ akutil --sb-state
SecureBoot disabled

ippo192:~$ tail -30
ippo192:~$ tail -30 /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/580.119.82-1.fc43.x86_64.log
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: + x509 -req -in /etc/pki/akmods/certs/public_key.der
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: Processing files: kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.82-1.fc43.x86_64
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: Provides: ...
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: Requires: ...
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: Checking for unpackaged file(s): ...
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: Wrote: /tmp/akmodsbuild...
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: Executing(%clean)...
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: + rm -rf ...
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: Installed:
2026/02/24 17:36:40 akmodsbuild: kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.82-1.fc43.x86_64

ippo192:~$ sudo dnf install kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64
Last metadata expiration check: ...
Package kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.82-1.fc43.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

ippo192:~$ rpm -q kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.82-1.fc43.x86_64

ippo192:~$
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The issue has been resolved, i went into the virtual terminal and updated to kernel 6.18.12.200 and everything seems to work.

I did however post the logs above in case anyone wanted to peep at them.

Thanks for the assistance

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Note, for someone trying to use rpm in the future to look at a local disk rpm file, that would have to be ( add the “p” option flag):

  • rpm -qip kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

and done in the same directory as the rpm (/var/cache/akmods/nvidia ) or use the full path to the file

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You are right: my command was wrong. I wanted in fact a rpm -qi of the installed kmod,
to know in particular its Install Date (without playing with --qf). It should have be:

  • rpm -qi kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64
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Not quite sorry. In particular the end of the log is partial.

Never mind, I’m pretty sure that the depmod done in the postinstall of the kmod rpm
was killed by a reboot (one have seen that). In this case. the akmods command fails to
detect that and does nothing. The akmods.service called at next boot does thus nothing
as well.

The fix in this case is to force a rebuild with: sudo akmods --force --rebuild

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In this case, wouldn’t sudo depmod -a suffice? The nvidia kernel modules were successfully built in the previous step.

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Yes.

You may want also to do that for the previous kernel, with:

  • sudo depmod -a PREVIOUS_KERNEL

(or sudo akmods --force --rebuild --kernels PREVIOUS_KERNEL)

Eventually for all the installed kernels.