After installing updates, my system failed to boot and appears to struggle with the nvidia card.
If I boot with nomodeset it boots fine but without it appears to hang when it would normally graphically prompt me for the hard drive decryption passcode.
I attempted to add nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 - no change
If I remove nomodeset from the boot lines it will not boot (likely at the transition to graphical)
I tried akmods with a force:
sudo akmods --force sudo dracut --force
It’s running fine in 6.18.7-200 the .10 fails to boot
If I boot not in quiet mode I see the prompt in the logs for the disk passcode/password and I see the USB devices detect and move on but when it goes to init the card it just locks up.
I suspect that the nvidia kernel module has not been properly installed due to a
premature reboot.
Can you boot in 6.18.7-200 and paste here the output of the following (use please the </> button):
(start first a bash if your shell is not bash or zsh)
(
set -x
kver=6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64
rpm -q kmod-nvidia-$kver
modinfo -F version -k $kver nvidia
tail /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/*$kver.log
)
bash> (
set -x
kver=6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64
rpm -q kmod-nvidia-$kver
modinfo -F version -k $kver nvidia
tail /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/*$kver.log
)
+ kver=6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64
+ rpm -q kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64-580.119.02-1.fc43.x86_64
+ modinfo -F version -k 6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64 nvidia
580.119.02
+ tail /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/580.119.02-1-for-6.18.10-200.fc43.x86_64.log
Total size of inbound packages is 8 MiB. Need to download 0 B.
After this operation, 0 B extra will be used (install 36 MiB, remove 36 MiB).
Running transaction
[1/4] Verify package files 100% | 62.0 B/s | 1.0 B | 00m00s
[2/4] Prepare transaction 100% | 30.0 B/s | 2.0 B | 00m00s
[3/4] Reinstalling kmod-nvidia-6.18.10- 100% | 7.1 MiB/s | 35.6 MiB | 00m05s
[4/4] Removing kmod-nvidia-6.18.10-200. 100% | 1.0 B/s | 7.0 B | 00m05s
Warning: skipped OpenPGP checks for 1 package from repository: @commandline
Complete!
2026/02/18 19:14:21 akmods: Successful.
I attempted to reboot after this and it stayed in the “blank screen” - I then went back and removed quiet and it booted and froze after all of the USB/amdgpu init was complete.
It does boot find if I add the nomodeset obviously.
This question prompted me to consider the video setup in a broader context:
Could you please provide more details about your setup? Are your monitors connected to the NVIDIA card or the AMD GPU?
I have a single LG 5K Ultra Fine display connected to both HDMI and USB 3. I don’t have anything connected to the AMD GPU. Wait a moment… this made me think. I wonder if my AMD GPU was enabled in BIOS, and indeed, it was.
A more general question would be whether the AMD GPU causes the freezing. If so, this information could be helpful to someone else with a similar setup.
This issue has been resolved. That was the entire problem. Now, I don’t know why that would be the case, but for my specific problem, it has been resolved.
thank you to everyone who took time to read and reply!!!
