Hello everyone,
New Fedora user here - I just updated my Fedora 38 workstation system to the latest kernel available (6.3.4) and installed all the other needed update packages via the GNOME software program. When the system finished installing the kernel and other packages and rebooted, it sent me to the GRUB screen. When I selected kernel 6.3.4 to boot, the system hung on a black screen with only an underscore (_) visible. I attempted to reboot the system with the new kernel several times but it hung every time. However, when I selected the previous kernel (6.2.15) in GRUB, the system booted normally (I am typing this post on the system in question while running kernel 6.2.15 now).
I am unsure if something became corrupted during the update process or if there is another issue, but I would appreciate any help in getting my system to boot on kernel 6.3.4 since the 6.2 kernel series is EOL.
If this information helps, my system is a Dell Inspiron 3891 desktop. Here is the output from fpaste -
=== fpaste 0.4.3.0 System Information ===
* OS Release (cat /etc/*-release | uniq):
Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="38 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=38
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f38"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 38 (Workstation Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="fedora"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f38/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=38
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=38
SUPPORT_END=2024-05-14
VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
VARIANT_ID=workstation
Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight)
* Kernel (uname -r ; cat /proc/cmdline):
6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64 root=UUID=a4402b2a-b944-4e2b-970d-af78ee969913 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet
* Desktop(s) Running (ps -eo comm= | grep -E '(gnome-session|startkde|startactive|xfce.?-session|fluxbox|blackbox|hackedbox|ratpoison|enlightenment|icewm-session|od-session|wmaker|wmx|openbox-lxde|openbox-gnome-session|openbox-kde-session|mwm|e16|fvwm|xmonad|sugar-session|mate-session|lxqt-session|cinnamon|lxdm-session)' ):
gnome-session-b
gnome-session-c
gnome-session-b
* Desktop(s) Installed (ls -m /usr/share/xsessions/ | sed 's/\.desktop//g' ):
gnome-classic, gnome-classic-xorg, gnome,
gnome-xorg
* SELinux Status (sestatus):
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33
* SELinux Errors (without results: "selinuxenabled && journalctl --since yesterday |grep avc: | grep -Eo comm="[^ ]+" | sort |uniq -c |sort -rn"):
N/A
* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c |
sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
12 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400 @ 2.60GHz
* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Hardware Virtualization Support (grep -Eq '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Load average (uptime):
18:26:16 up 16 min, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.50, 0.40
* Pressure Stall Information (grep -R . /proc/pressure/):
/proc/pressure/io:some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=1502781
/proc/pressure/io:full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=1434648
/proc/pressure/cpu:some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=2532753
/proc/pressure/cpu:full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
/proc/pressure/irq:full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=1920488
/proc/pressure/memory:some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=3381
/proc/pressure/memory:full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=2222
* Memory usage (free -m):
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15699 1808 11141 714 2749 12886
Swap: 8191 0 8191
* ZRAM usage (zramctl --output-all):
NAME DISKSIZE DATA COMPR ALGORITHM STREAMS ZERO-PAGES TOTAL MEM-LIMIT MEM-USED MIGRATED MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 8G 4K 80B lzo-rle 12 0 12K 0B 12K 0B [SWAP]
* Top 5 CPU hogs (ps axuScnh | awk '$2!=5524' | sort -rnk3 | head -5):
1000 3338 30.9 3.4 4113208 552496 ? Sl 18:10 4:50 firefox
1000 1908 10.3 1.4 5799116 229488 ? Ssl 18:09 1:43 gnome-shell
1000 4834 10.2 1.3 2864740 219848 ? Sl 18:19 0:39 Isolated Web Co
1000 5461 6.5 0.3 909820 48884 ? Ssl 18:26 0:00 gnome-terminal-
0 1 2.1 0.1 229096 29836 ? Ss 18:09 0:22 systemd
* Top 5 Memory hogs (ps axuScnh | sort -rnk4 | head -5):
1000 3338 30.9 3.4 4113208 552496 ? Sl 18:10 4:50 firefox
1000 3612 1.1 1.8 3161296 295228 ? Sl 18:10 0:11 Isolated Web Co
1000 4318 1.5 1.4 2864868 231248 ? Sl 18:14 0:10 Isolated Web Co
1000 1908 10.3 1.4 5799116 229488 ? Ssl 18:09 1:43 gnome-shell
1000 4834 10.2 1.3 2864740 219848 ? Sl 18:19 0:39 Isolated Web Co
* Disk space usage (df -hT):
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 7.7G 3.6M 7.7G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 3.1G 1.8M 3.1G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p3 btrfs 465G 5.7G 457G 2% /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 btrfs 465G 5.7G 457G 2% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p2 ext4 974M 297M 610M 33% /boot
tmpfs tmpfs 7.7G 16K 7.7G 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat 599M 18M 582M 3% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 128K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
* Block devices (without results: "blkid" AND "/sbin/blkid"):
N/A
* PCI devices (lspci -nn):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4c53] (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 730] [8086:4c8b] (rev 04)
00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller [8086:43ed] (rev 11)
00:14.2 RAM memory [0500]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Shared SRAM [8086:43ef] (rev 11)
00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi [8086:43f0] (rev 11)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Serial IO I2C Controller #0 [8086:43e8] (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H Management Engine Interface [8086:43e0] (rev 11)
00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:43d2] (rev 11)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:43c4] (rev 11)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H PCI Express Root Port #5 [8086:43bc] (rev 11)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4387] (rev 11)
00:1f.3 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H HD Audio Controller [8086:43c8] (rev 11)
00:1f.4 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H SMBus Controller [8086:43a3] (rev 11)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H SPI Controller [8086:43a4] (rev 11)
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Sandisk Corp WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD 1TB [15b7:501a]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15)
* USB devices (lsusb):
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05ac:024f Apple, Inc. Aluminium Keyboard (ANSI)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:08e7 Logitech, Inc. Logi Webcam C920e
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0d8c:0241 C-Media Electronics, Inc. Cmedia Audio
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0d8c:023f C-Media Electronics, Inc. Cmedia Audio
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
* DRM Information (journalctl -k -b | grep -o 'kernel:.*drm.*$' | cut -d ' ' -f 2- ):
ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered
[drm] Initialized simpledrm 1.0.0 20200625 for simple-framebuffer.0 on minor 0
simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] fb0: simpledrmdrmfb frame buffer device
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Using Transparent Hugepages
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/rkl_dmc_ver2_03.bin (v2.3)
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Protected Xe Path (PXP) protected content support initialized
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20201103 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 1
fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device
audit: type=1130 audit(1685570963.285:13): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=modprobe@drm comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
* Xorg modules (grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs):
* GL Support (glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL version|OpenGL renderer"):
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RKL GT1)
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.1.1
* Xorg errors (without results: "grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d ':' -f 2- "):
N/A
* Kernel buffer tail (dmesg | tail):
[ 14.073616] Lockdown: systemd-logind: hibernation is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7
[ 14.272326] usb 1-6: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[ 14.284690] rfkill: input handler disabled
[ 18.635287] input: MX Master 3 Keyboard as /devices/virtual/misc/uhid/0005:046D:B023.0005/input/input16
[ 18.635351] input: MX Master 3 Mouse as /devices/virtual/misc/uhid/0005:046D:B023.0005/input/input17
[ 18.635454] hid-generic 0005:046D:B023.0005: input,hidraw4: BLUETOOTH HID v0.15 Keyboard [MX Master 3] on 60:a5:e2:37:cd:ea
[ 18.675533] input: MX Master 3 as /devices/virtual/misc/uhid/0005:046D:B023.0005/input/input19
[ 18.675733] logitech-hidpp-device 0005:046D:B023.0005: input,hidraw4: BLUETOOTH HID v0.15 Keyboard [MX Master 3] on 60:a5:e2:37:cd:ea
[ 18.703416] logitech-hidpp-device 0005:046D:B023.0005: HID++ 4.5 device connected.
[ 31.028321] Lockdown: systemd-logind: hibernation is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7
* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
runlevel (to lvl 5) 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 18:09 still running
reboot system boot 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 18:09 still running
runlevel (to lvl 5) 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 17:34 - 18:02 (00:27)
reboot system boot 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 17:34 - 18:02 (00:27)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 17:32 - 17:33 (00:00)
reboot system boot 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 17:32 - 17:33 (00:00)
reboot system boot 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 17:25 - 17:26 (00:00)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 17:23 - 17:25 (00:02)
reboot system boot 6.2.15-300.fc38. Wed May 31 17:23 - 17:25 (00:02)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 6.2.15-300.fc38. Tue May 30 09:13 - 16:37 (07:24)
wtmp begins Wed May 24 21:26:35 2023
* DNF Repositories (dnf repolist):
repo id repo name
code Visual Studio Code
fedora Fedora 38 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 38 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular Fedora Modular 38 - x86_64
updates Fedora 38 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular Fedora Modular 38 - x86_64 - Updates
* DNF Extras (dnf -C list extras):
Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 4:34:28 ago on Tue 30 May 2023 01:51:49 PM EDT.
Extra Packages
zoom.x86_64 5.14.7.2928-1 @@commandline
* Last 20 packages installed (rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature --last | head -20):
texlive-lib-20220321-72.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:25 PM EDT
mesa-vulkan-drivers-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:25 PM EDT
mesa-libxatracker-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:25 PM EDT
libppd-2.0~rc1-2.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:25 PM EDT
distribution-gpg-keys-1.88-1.fc38.noarch Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:25 PM EDT
btrfs-progs-6.3.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:25 PM EDT
vim-minimal-9.0.1587-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:20 PM EDT
vim-data-9.0.1587-1.fc38.noarch Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:20 PM EDT
mesa-libGL-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:20 PM EDT
kernel-modules-extra-6.3.4-201.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:20 PM EDT
kernel-6.3.4-201.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:20 PM EDT
selinux-policy-targeted-38.15-1.fc38.noarch Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:15 PM EDT
selinux-policy-38.15-1.fc38.noarch Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:10 PM EDT
mesa-dri-drivers-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:10 PM EDT
mesa-va-drivers-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:09 PM EDT
mesa-libglapi-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:09 PM EDT
mesa-libgbm-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:09 PM EDT
mesa-libEGL-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:09 PM EDT
mesa-filesystem-23.1.1-1.fc38.x86_64 Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:09 PM EDT
fedora-release-workstation-38-36.noarch Wed 31 May 2023 05:26:09 PM EDT
* EFI boot manager output (efibootmgr -v):
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0001,0003
Boot0001* Fedora HD(1,GPT,71f78a84-f48a-4c90-b814-7ac6f6bea7f6,0x800,0x12c000)/File(\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi)
dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 12 00 00 00 00 00 84 8a f7 71 8a f4 90 4c b8 14 7a c6 f6 be a7 f6 02 02 / 04 04 34 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 66 00 65 00 64 00 6f 00 72 00 61 00 5c 00 73 00 68 00 69 00 6d 00 78 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
Boot0002* Fedora HD(1,GPT,71f78a84-f48a-4c90-b814-7ac6f6bea7f6,0x800,0x12c000)/File(\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi)
dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 12 00 00 00 00 00 84 8a f7 71 8a f4 90 4c b8 14 7a c6 f6 be a7 f6 02 02 / 04 04 34 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 66 00 65 00 64 00 6f 00 72 00 61 00 5c 00 73 00 68 00 69 00 6d 00 78 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
Boot0003* UEFI WD Blue SN570 500GB 22401G800708 1 HD(1,GPT,71f78a84-f48a-4c90-b814-7ac6f6bea7f6,0x800,0x12c000)/File(\EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi){auto_created_boot_option}
dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 12 00 00 00 00 00 84 8a f7 71 8a f4 90 4c b8 14 7a c6 f6 be a7 f6 02 02 / 04 04 30 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
data: 4e ac 08 81 11 9f 59 4d 85 0e e2 1a 52 2c 59 b2
Please let me know if I should provide any other system information and thank you for your help!
~ Sean