Hello Fedora community!
I used Fedora for the first time today and I would like to document an issue I ran into in case it could help someone else. I ran into this issue with brand new hardware and immediately after installing Fedora, before I did anything with the system. So I think it’s one of those things that could trip up new users.
I bought a new Framework laptop, downloaded Fedora and installed it.
After booting up, I installed the automatic updates (which included a new kernel) and the system would freeze and/or crash when I tried to open Firefox. Sometimes it would freeze immediately before I even did anything.
Turns out it’s booting with the old kernel 6.11 instead of 6.13.
I fixed it by manually setting the default kernel:
first show the available kernels:
free-d-tek@fedora:~$ sudo grubby --info=ALL | grep “^title”
title=“Fedora Linux (6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64) 41 (Workstation Edition)”
title=“Fedora Linux (6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64) 41 (Workstation Edition)”
title=“Fedora Linux (0-rescue-67c0091834d04a2e95af1198a4002f5c) 41 (Workstation Edition)”
then show which version is default:
free-d-tek@fedora:~$ sudo grubby --default-kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-6.11.4-301.fc41.x86_64
then set the correct default:
free-d-tek@fedora:~$ sudo grubby --set-default=/boot/vmlinuz-6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64
The default is /boot/loader/entries/67c0091834d04a2e95af1198a4002f5c-6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64.conf with index 0 and kernel /boot/vmlinuz-6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64
Here is my system information:
/:-------------:\ free-d-tek@fedora
:-------------------:: OS: Fedora
:-----------/shhOHbmp---:\ Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64
/-----------omMMMNNNMMD ---: Uptime: 47m
:-----------sMMMMNMNMP. ---: Packages: 2055
:-----------:MMMdP------- ---\ Shell: bash 5.2.32
,------------:MMMd-------- ---: Resolution: No X Server
:------------:MMMd------- .---: DE: GNOME 47.3
:---- oNMMMMMMMMMNho .----: WM: Mutter
:-- .+shhhMMMmhhy++ .------/ WM Theme: Adwaita
:- -------:MMMd--------------: GTK Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
:- --------/MMMd-------------; Icon Theme: Adwaita
:- ------/hMMMy------------: Font: Cantarell 11
:-- :dMNdhhdNMMNo------------; Disk: 18G / 2.8T (1%)
:---:sdNMMMMNds:------------: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840U w/ Radeon 780M Graphics @ 16x 5.132GHz
:------:://:-------------:: GPU: AMD Radeon 780M (radeonsi, phoenix, LLVM 19.1.7, DRM 3.61, 6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64)
:---------------------:// RAM: 4258MiB / 31383MiB
So far Fedora looks amazing and I think this laptop is going to be great. However, whenever I run into things like this I can just hear the windows and mac expats crying in the back of head. Hopefully this will help someone get over the hump. Thanks!