Hello, I just installed Fedora 43 KDE using the iso image from the website, everything worked perfectly until I used the “Discover” app to apply “System Updates” of which there was 2,2 Gbs of, I thought this was a normal thing since most OSs have a lot of updates when you just install them (I am also a bit new to this whole linux thing).
After downloading the updates I restarted the machine, and it finished installing them, but when it tried to boot, it got stuck at the login screen, and it wouldnt take any input at all. I tried doing Ctrl+Alt+F2 to open the fullscreen terminal but it wouldnt respond, I had to long press the power button in order to shut down the machine.
I am able to boot and log in by selecting the rescue option from GRUB, which makes me believe this might’ve been caused by Discover updating the kernel?, which somehow made Fedora no longer work with my machine.
I havent had the chance to install drivers of any sort so the machine is running just as it is when installed.
Should I downgrade the kernel? How do I do that? keep in mind I can only boot from the “rescue” option in GRUB.
inxi -Fzxx output from the “rescue” option:
System:
Kernel: 6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA507XU v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FA507XU v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: FA507XU.314 date: 04/16/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 84.8 Wh (100%) condition: 84.8/90 Wh (94.2%) volts: 16.84
min: 15.86 model: ASUS A32-K55 serial: N/A charging: status: full
cycles: N/A
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4 rev: 1 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1317 min/max: 403/5263 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1317
2: 1317 3: 1317 4: 1317 5: 1317 6: 1317 7: 1317 8: 1317 9: 1317 10: 1317
11: 1317 12: 1317 13: 1317 14: 1317 15: 1317 16: 1317 bogomips: 127756
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
ports: active: DP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:28e1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1 vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-3 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: eDP-2 empty: DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7, DP-8, DP-9,
Writeback-1 bus-ID: 66:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15bf temp: 34.0 C
Device-3: Sonix USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 2b7e:b685
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: gpu: amdgpu,nouveau d-rect: 3840x1080 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,left model: ingnok res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
dpi: 142 diag: 395mm (15.57")
Monitor-2: eDP-2 pos: right model: AU Optronics B156HAN15.H res: 1920x1080
hz: 144 dpi: 142 diag: 394mm (15.5")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: zink
device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.2.5 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (radeonsi phoenix
LLVM 21.1.2 DRM 3.64 6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:15bf
display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:15bf device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
driver: mesa nvk device-ID: 10de:28e1 device: 2 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA AD107 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22be
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
[Rembrandt/Strix] driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 66:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor
driver: snd_pci_ps v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 66:00.5
chip-ID: 1022:15e2
Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 66:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
API: ALSA v: k6.17.1-300.fc43.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 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: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: AzureWave driver: mt7921e v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14c3:7961
IF: wlp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: IMC Networks Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 13d3:3563
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
lmp-v: 12
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 942.7 GiB used: 5.92 GiB (0.6%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 45.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Micron model: 2400 MTFDKBA512QFM
size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 30.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 463.17 GiB used: 5.24 GiB (1.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 1.9 GiB used: 674 MiB (34.6%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 463.17 GiB used: 5.24 GiB (1.1%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.6 C mobo: 39.5 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.83 GiB used: 5.83 GiB (39.3%)
Processes: 586 Power: uptime: 26m 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: konsole inxi: 3.3.39