so as the title says I installed rpm fusion drivers on my fedora and it wont boot it asks for encryption password then loads to a commands line saying things were loaded ok then that’s it it wont load any further it’s my only machine so I need help to fix/repair ir because I don’t know what to do other than have to do a complete format which I’d rather not do, I’m posting this using a fedora live usb drive thanks for any help would be much appreciated.
Are you using Secure Boot? If so, try rebooting with it disabled.
Can you get to a new TTY with Ctrl+Alt+F2 ?
Post some pics so we can see what is happening.
If rebooting with secure boot disabled doesn’t allow the system to boot properly you should use the Live Installer environment to collect additional details to help use understand what went wrong:
- use Gnome Disks to check mass storage “health” (the button on the top right with 3 vertical dots) and free space.
- install
inxiand in a terminal runinxi -Fzxx. This provides a useful summary of your hardware. Post the output as pre-formatted text using the</>button from the top line of the test entry panel so it can be found by web searches. This helps us understand your configuration and may get the attention of those in the broader linux community using similar hardware (“all linux problems are shallow given enough eyeballs”).
ok thanks for the replies, no I am not usiong secure boot, I will try ctrl+alt+f2
, here’s a pic it doesn’t go past this
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Your system boots to “rescue mode”. If you have not enabled a root login, use https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/reset-root-password/ to set one. You will want a place to save the output from journalctl -xb so you can post it such as a USB stick. Note that posting text that can be found with web searches gets far more eyes than an image.
thank you for replying, I might have taken that in rescue mode but that is how mky system always boots after installing fusion drivers I am not sure how resetting a password will halp, I know the user pass and encrypt pass it asks for the encrypt pass at start then goes to that sort of screen but I cant get to desktop or to access anything I dont understand why this happened just from installing drivers
If you have a root password you can collect data as suggested and post it so we can better understand the issue.
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Thanks but that command doesnt work it says command not found I’d prefer not to have to do a format
This inxi command is not installed by default.
Install it with sudo dnf install inxi, then post the inxi -Fzxx output.
I suspect that you executed this journalctl -xb command while booting your fedora live
usb. If I am right, this will not help to fix your issue. This output is also highly
truncated.
Have you managed to enable a root login as recommended ?
See: Please help installed rpm fusion drivers on fedora now wont boot - #7 by gnwiii
Do that please, then:
- reboot normally, not your fedora live usb
- you will be asked to give the root password, give it
- you will then be in a root shell. Execute:
systemctl start NetworkManagerto get network access, needed by fpaste belowjournalctl -xb | fpaste- this command will output an URL of the form:
https://paste.centos.org/XXX - paste this URL in this topic (instantiate the XXX)
System:
Kernel: 6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
Desktop: GNOME v: 49.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.51 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU Firmware: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends v: 4002 date: 06/15/2021
CPU:
Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
rev: 0 cache: L1: 768 KiB L2: 6 MiB L3: 64 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3599 min/max: 563/4674 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3599
2: 3599 3: 3599 4: 3599 5: 3599 6: 3599 7: 3599 8: 3599 9: 3599 10: 3599
11: 3599 12: 3599 13: 3599 14: 3599 15: 3599 16: 3599 17: 3599 18: 3599
19: 3599 20: 3599 21: 3599 22: 3599 23: 3599 24: 3599 bogomips: 182050
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU104 [GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A
arch: Turing pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1e81
Device-2: NVIDIA TU104 [GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Turing pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: DP-2 empty: DP-1,DP-3,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1e81
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: gnome-shell
driver: gpu: nouveau display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: Dell AW3225QF res: 3840x2160 dpi: 140
diag: 803mm (31.6")
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: mesa v: 25.2.4 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
direct-render: yes renderer: zink Vulkan 1.4(NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
(NVK TU104) (MESA_NVK)) device-ID: 10de:1e81 display-ID: :0.0
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU104 HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown lanes: 63 bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f8
Device-2: Creative Labs CA0132 Sound Core3D [Sound Blaster Recon3D /
Z-Series BlasterX AE-5 Plus] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 1102:0012
Device-3: NVIDIA TU104 HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0a:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f8
Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0c:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
Device-5: XMOS MINI-i driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 20b1:300a
API: ALSA v: k6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: wg0-mullvad state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 4.6 TiB used: 221.93 GiB (4.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN850X 1000GB
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 43.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD2003FZEX-00SRLA0
size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Verbatim model: STORE N GO size: 57.77 GiB
type: USB rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 serial: <filter>
ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: ASUS model: ROG ESD-S1C size: 1.82 TiB type: USB
rev: 2.1 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 6.25 GiB used: 2.07 GiB (33.2%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: 27.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.23 GiB used: 7.68 GiB (24.6%)
Processes: 548 Power: uptime: 5h 2m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 258
default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash
v: 5.3.0 running-in: ptyxis-agent inxi: 3.3.40
BIOS is years out of date, so you probably want to address that.
You’re also a long way behind on kernels too, so given that you’re fiddling with nvidia drivers, you probably want to fully update what you already have before spending time on getting a new initramfs built… might even fix the thing in the first place.
his is an old system I setup I have a much newer system that is out for repair needs a new mobo, so yeah the bios for this is the newest version it’s anm ancient mobo from 2016/17, I had the latest version of fedora before I installed rpm fusion
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I guess thus that you ran inxi from your fedora live usb. Right ?
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If you installed fedora from the live media and are booted from the installed OS that kernel shows that you have not upgraded the software to the latest available. There have been many many packages upgraded since f43 was released last October and the kernel is currently at 6.18.12.
Perform a full system upgrade (assuming this is an installed OS and not the live media) with sudo dnf upgrade --refresh and reboot before mucking around with the nvidia drivers.
I am currently using a live disk because I can’t boot to the main install which is why I started this thread, if noone knows a way to fix this i’ll just have to use the live disk backup all files and format and reinstall, I was just hoping there was some way to reset fedora, use like a command prompt to run a command to reset fedora reinstall the main fies/packages and keep already installed files and applications, cant believe I wrecked my whole system just by installing some drivers fusion drivers specifically, lesson learned the hardway I guess.
Hi.
You haven’t replied to my previous post. Can you follow it please:
You can reinstall Fedora, keeping your /home from the Annaconda installer.
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Vendors don’t care about problems with old systems, so you are left with reliance on the Linux community to fix issues with Linux. As mentioned, a newer BIOS should improve support for current software, but that depends on the mobo vendor.