Stuck on Screen with 3 gray dots, Plymouth issue?

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Fairly new to Fedora. I got this error message after my system updated and I have no clue what to do or where to start

If someone could help me here, I’d be very grateful!
Pictures are uploaded for reference

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Does anyone have any insight?

I tried googling it but I’m not sure what to do here

3

Looks like it is compiling the nvidia drivers for you.
This can take approximately 5 minutes.

Are you letting this complete or are you forcing a reboot with the power button?

Try leaving it for 30 minutes to make sure it can finish.

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When reporting an issue please provide enough detail to allow others with access to similar hardware to reproduce your issue:

  • Are you comfortable with the terminal and command-line?
  • Can you boot to a working system, e.g., an older kernel? I see errors for iwlwifi – do you also have wired network access or other alternate access such as a USB dongle?
  • Is this a fresh install of which Fedora spin (Fedora Workstation is the most common choice)?
  • Has it been upgraded successfully in the past?
  • Are you booting any other OS on the same system?
  • What hardware? The most common way to provide a basic description of your hardware is to run inxi -Fzxx in a terminal and paste the output (as pre-formatted text using the </> button from the top line of the text entry panel).

Impossible without more details. Unless you use a paid distribution like Red Hat or SUSE, support is provided by volunteers and there are many others asking for help. Those who start off by providing enough detail to allow others to reproduce a problem generally get a quicker response.

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I tried letting it sit and it just does nothing.

Yes I have to push the power button to turn it off.

No idea what to do here I’m not good at this stuff :frowning:

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Sorry, new here.

Not much command line experience but I do have some and am a little familiar on how to navigate etc.

I cannot boot into my system it is stalled with the 2 messages on the photos I sent at the bottom.

Yea it happened after I updated to the newest version and was always up to date

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Can you access a virtual terminal?
ctrlaltF3

You could look at:
journalctl --no-hostname -b -p 4

if you have a network and fpaste available you could do journalctl --no-hostname -b -p 3 --no-pager | fpaste

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If CapsLock and NumLock keyboard lights don’t respond, the linux kernel has probably crashed and there is nothing else you can do.

Have you tried booting a previous kernel or the rescue kernel from the grub2 menu? You can also try booting the Live Linux installer to check that your hardware isn’t broken. Using the Live environment, you can do sudo dnf install inxi and then post the output.

You can also try booting into a text console using the grub2 editor to delete the rhgb quiet and then add a 3 to the end of the kernel command line.

Some vendors provide comprehensive hardware checking software as a bootable USB image.

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I cannot see anything or type anything when I do that, no.

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UPDATE!!

I let it sit for 23 minutes and it finally decided to load up. I just backed everything up incase it does not start on the next boot

The system is extremely laggy and slow.

Is this a nvidia issue? None of this happened before the last update.

Any clue on how to fix?

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Don’t know if it is nvidia without more info.
As a first step to try and make certain it is not I would run
sudo akmods --force --rebuild then reboot after that finishes.
Following that reboot please post the inxi -Fzxx output again.
Also post dnf list installed \*nvidia\*