Hello. I’m yet another user of a legacy NVIDIA card (Zotac 1080) that’s having boot problems. For the moment, all I can provide are pictures of the journal, so please bear with me. This is the second time I’m having this problem. The first time, I attempted to upgrade from Fedora 42 to 43, and all …

[image] Jeff V: When you said the proper nvidia 580 drivers are installed were you meaning the 580xx version from the rpmfusion repo? If so which repo and which specific version? [image] [image] Jeff V: Please run sudo dnf upgrade --refresh from that terminal so you have the latest sof…

When you said the proper nvidia 580 drivers are installed were you meaning the 580xx version from the rpmfusion repo? If so which repo and which specific version? dnf list --installed \*nvidia\* will answer that question. The akmod-nvidia-580xx package exists in 3 different repos for f44. Instal…

Checking for updates no longer works, and is stuck here. [image]

After updating from the command line, I rebooted again, and it seems to be okay. However it still concerns me that the first reboot immediately following the initial upgrade still failed. I’ve marked this as solved, but will return to this thread if this crops up again.

I would imagine that the updated version of the 580xx drivers had not fully rebuilt and installed when you rebooted, they were built during the first boot so the second boot worked. The messages in yellow say that you had a version mismatch which then went away, and that only happens with a successf…

Are you now using the latest version of the nvidia driver? Please post the output of modinfo -l nvidia && modinfo -F version nvidia The latest version currently available is $ dnf list --available akmod-nvidia-580xx --repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing Updating and loading repositories: Repos…

Boot failure: Plasma login service fails & core dumps

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grumpey (Joe Walker) July 3, 2026, 8:31am 5

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