Fedora loads to black screen after unencrypting drive

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After I restarted my computer, it will let me put in the password to unencrpyt the drive, but then the screen goes black.

After looking on Reddit I saw someone suggest editing grub to remove ‘quiet’ to see what happens. The attached picture what happens after unencrypting. It flashed that before going to a black screen with the dash cursor.

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Before this happened I was trying to remove drm from some books, so I had install calibre, some plugins, and used bottles to install Kobo.

The laptop is running Fedora KDE 42. It has a amd cpu and Nvidia graphics card using the official drivers. Fedora is the only os on the device.

I’ve also tried opening the terminal with ctrl+alt+F1 but nothing happened

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I found this thread Fedora 40 suddenly not booting - #12 by barryascott and tried to copy his solution so I put systemd.unit=multi-user.target in grub and now am able to log in without the GUI. But I don’t know what to do from here

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Top reason for this is that the nvidia drivers have not completed being built on your last update.

Run this and see if it successfully builds the drivers for you

sudo akmods --rebuild
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I ran that command. It said it [ok] after building and installing nvidia-kmod, but after rebooting nothing seemed to have changed except that now I can use tty3.

Edit: after running sudo dnf update and rebooting everything is fixed and it loaded into the desktop.

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