Fedora not booting after karnel update to 6.18.5

Fedora not booting after karnel update to 6.18.5

I just upgrade the system and now I the system is crashing on booting with karnel 6.18.5 only working if I select the karnel 6.18.4

When it starts loading it shows

akmod: building usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod.latest

and then it crashes

Removing rhgb quiet it:


You just updated and the first image shows that akmods is running to build the nvidia driver for you (probably because of an early reboot). It is always wise to wait at least 5 minutes after an upgrade that includes a kernel to allow time for drivers to be properly prepared.
If you were patient and waited it probably would have completed building the nvidia module and may have completed booting properly.

The last image shows the system was at the plymouth-quit-wait stage which waits for required processes to complete before providing the login screen.

The middle image shows the kernel command line and the only thing that is out of place there is the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 option. That could be removed for the boot by stopping at the grub boot menu and pressing e to edit the command line and remove that part. If it boots properly after that then ask about how to remove it permanently.

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Thanks I just wait for 5m and the system boot, next time I’ll be patient :sweat_smile: