Kernel-6.17.5-200.fc42.x86_64 boot failure with nvidia

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I get kernel-6.17.5-200.fc42.x86_64 boot failure with nvidia. All screen goes black basically, but this I managed to find in journalctl -t kernel output:

Nov 02 13:41:00 fedora kernel: rfkill: input handler enabled
Nov 02 13:41:03 fedora kernel: [drm:drm_new_set_master] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000200] Failed to grab modeset ownership
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1305 audit(1762083671.609:822): op=set audit_pid=0 old=17314 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.612:823): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.612:824): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.618:825): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.618:826): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.618:827): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.618:828): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: zram0: detected capacity change from 7989248 to 0
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.710:829): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1762083671.942:830): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_>
Nov 02 13:41:11 fedora kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1762083671.944:831): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_

I hope this output is useful if not I can get more what is asked and reproduce easily just by hitting reboot button. Any suggestions welcome. I got something bad with 6.17.4 too if not exactly same. So temporary solution is to stick with 6.16*.

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Any suggestions? :roll_eyes:

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I managed to reproduce black screen with updated 6.17.6 today. But that error seems gone from logs. I have to look somewhere else?

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Have the same problem. You can work around it by removing rhgb from your boot options to force it to boot via text mode.

Supposedly the latest kwin patch is meant to fix it, but doesn’t resolve the problem for me.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.6-300.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor

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Today I updated to 6.17.7 and after that I did:

sudo grubby --remove-args="rhgb quiet" --update-kernel=ALL

Then I boot into some sort of black and not working typing prompt with no text at all.

Seems that loots of things start ok like firewall, modem manager etc.

So still not solved. :frowning:

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I realized that it is something with gdm as gdm message was last in boot so I replaced it with xdm. And now on boot I see failed to start xdm. Any ideas what to do now?