Hi.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:54:34 -0400
Tim Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, I installed 'akmod-nvidia' (akmod-nvidia-575.64.05-2.fc42.x86_64). 
> A bunch of pre- and co-requisites were installed and the install 
> appeared to have completed.

> Among the pre-reqs installed were kernel-devel.

I assume it was the kernel-devel-6.16.5
 
> I left the system idle for several hours before rebooting it.

Good to let akmod compile and install the kmod-nvidia, but there is a
new bug since dnf5: the installation of this RPM may fail with:

  Transaction failed: Failed to obtain rpm transaction lock.\
  Another transaction is in progress.

See: /var/cache/akmods/*/*failed.log

(I got that for VirtualBox 2 days ago when updating to kernel-6.16.5)

> Curiously, paying more attention to reboot shows that kernel 6-16-5
> is NOT shown on the grub boot menu, and the system defaults to
> kernel 6-16-4

You should skip the 6-16-4 kernel since it has a network issue:

  
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kernel-6-16-3-causes-intermittent-network-issues/163310

That may explain that Google Chrome does not work.

To correct this (no initramfs 6.15.6 and no kmod-nvidia):

  - Verify that the needed kernel*-6.15.6 are installed
    Ex:

    dnf list --installed kernel*-6.15.6\* | cat
    Installed packages
    kernel.x86_64               6.15.6-200.fc42 updates
    kernel-core.x86_64          6.15.6-200.fc42 updates
    kernel-devel.x86_64         6.15.6-200.fc42 updates
    kernel-modules.x86_64       6.15.6-200.fc42 updates
    kernel-modules-core.x86_64  6.15.6-200.fc42 updates
    kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 6.15.6-200.fc42 updates

  - Reinstall kernel-core (to at least build the initramfs and the
    kmod-nvidia )

    dnf reinstall kernel-core-6.16.5-\*

  - Look at the journal for the logs of dracut
    Ex: journalctl --since -4d -t dracut | less

  - Look at the log: /var/cache/akmods/nvidia/*.log

  - If kmod-nvidia fails to install, install it with:

    dnf install var/cache/akmods/nvidia/kmod-nvidia-6.15.6-*.rpm

    (or re-run akmods)

-- 
francis
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