Frozed fedora - can't startup my laptop

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after a small update, my Nvidia card stopped running my games. I reinstalled the drivers via rpmfusion. everything worked fine, except it won’t reboot or turn off via app launcher icons. I tried to open terminal, won’t open either. searched for ‘reboot’, clicked on a command that show up, and the PC rebooted, but now I can’t turn it on again, it just freezes on loading screen forever.
After trying running other versions on boot options, it appeared “Nvidia kernel module missing, turning back to nouveau”. and then it froze again

Don’t know where to begin with, what should I do?

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Hi and welcome to :fedora: !

You could temporarily boot your system with nouveau drivers: reboot, then at the GRUB menu edit the menu entry and remove the rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau and modprobe.blacklist=nouveau boot parameters. You should be be able to enter a graphical session, and from there you can try fixing your issue with the NVIDIA drivers.

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Try Mike B.'s advice.

FYI:

  • you can type ESC and you should see the log messages that will help understand why your system is failing to get you to the login.
  • you should be able to type Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get to a console login prompt. Then you can login and look at logs etc
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hi! thanks for the welcoming and for reaching out. I tried what you said, it start loading for a while and froze again :disappointed_face:

edit: I pressed esc during loading as suggested by other comment and showed me this

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Hi! thanks for the suggestions. login prompt didn’t worked. I pressed the keys and nothing happens.

pressing “esc” showed this error

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edit login prompt worked while it was loading, but it’s freezed and I can’t type anything

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how are you rebooting the system? If you force a power down then you may be damaging the file system again.

Try doing a Cttrl-Alt-DEL once it stuck.
This shoucl do a controlled reboot.
Maybe once the file systems have been “fsck” (checked for problems) and marked as clean the system may work or atleast have a different log for us to comment on.

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hi, to reboot I press power button for one second more or less. it unfreezes, load a bit, and turn off. Ctrl+alt+del also worked.

I tried add "“fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes” to the kernel boot parameters, no changes. i put on Linux line and tried to add another line with those parameters on another shot.

errors on logs remains the same

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Usually the next entry after the Finished systemd-fsck-root.service is Mounting sysroot.mount - /sysroot.... Can you boot a Live USB? There you can check the health of the system storage device and then try mounting the directories.