On 9/11/25 2:29 AM, Francis Montagnac via users wrote:
Hi.
On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:54:34 -0400
Tim Evans <tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
Yes.
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
No such file.
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)
All done. Success! During the re-install of kernel-core-6.16.5, got a
pop-up about /boot being 100% full. Checking the akmods build log, the
build competed sucessfully, however. I've rebooted to 6.16.5 kernel and
Nvidia mod is active. Manually cleaned up /boot. Possibly, at some
point, the akmod build failed due to lack of disk space.
Thank you for your help.
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