Hi Ed,
The f25 to f26 upgrade was done using the instructions here:
"https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade".
The boot that seemed to fail (or never finish) was the one that should happen
automatically at the end of step 7. I waited for that boot to finish over 15 minutes
after the 3 rectangles disappeared before doing the hard reset. The screen was blank that
whole time.
Question: When during the upgrade process does the building of the nvidia drivers happen?
(I would have guessed that it happens during the long process triggered by my dnf command
in step 6, but before the automatic reboot that occurs at the end of step 7 (after
thousands of installing, clean-up, and verifying messages).
Question: How long should I have waited?
Question: I did not run dnf after 2200. Who or what did? (not a complaint; rather,
I'm curious)
The log file you point to does exist. The relevant part is at the bottom of this message,
between the lines of '='. I gather from that log extract, and from what Samuel
said overnight, that whatever the problem was has somehow fixed itself. Also, things seem
to be behaving better today.
Thank-you for your help.
Bill.
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2017/10/19 12:08:05 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.12.14-200.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:23:10 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:23:10 akmods: Building and installing nvidia-kmod
2017/10/19 12:23:10 akmods: Building RPM using the command '/sbin/akmodsbuild --target
x86_64 --kernels 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64 /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod.latest'
2017/10/19 12:23:33 akmods: Installing newly built rpms
2017/10/19 12:23:33 akmods: DNF detected
2017/10/19 12:23:39 akmods: Successful.
2017/10/19 12:23:56 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.12.13-200.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:23:57 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.12.14-200.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:23:57 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:25:20 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:50:49 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.12.13-200.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:50:49 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.12.14-200.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 12:50:49 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 14:35:49 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64
2017/10/19 14:35:49 akmods: Building and installing nvidia-kmod
2017/10/19 14:35:49 akmods: Building RPM using the command '/sbin/akmodsbuild --target
x86_64 --kernels 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64 /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod.latest'
2017/10/19 14:36:16 akmods: Installing newly built rpms
2017/10/19 14:36:16 akmods: DNF detected
2017/10/19 14:36:16 akmods: Could not install newly built RPMs. You can find them and the
logfile
2017/10/19 14:36:16 akmods: 375.66-3-for-4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64.failed.log in
/var/cache/akmods/nvidia/
2017/10/19 14:36:16 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 14:36:17 akmods: Building and installing nvidia-kmod
2017/10/19 14:36:17 akmods: Building RPM using the command '/sbin/akmodsbuild --target
x86_64 --kernels 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64 /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod.latest'
2017/10/19 14:36:39 akmods: Installing newly built rpms
2017/10/19 14:36:39 akmods: DNF detected
2017/10/19 14:36:39 akmods: Could not install newly built RPMs. You can find them and the
logfile
2017/10/19 14:36:39 akmods: 375.66-3-for-4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64.failed.log in
/var/cache/akmods/nvidia/
2017/10/19 14:48:20 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64
2017/10/19 14:48:26 akmods: Ignoring nvidia-kmod as it failed earlier
2017/10/19 14:48:26 akmods: Hint: Some kmods were ignored or failed to build or install.
2017/10/19 14:48:26 akmods: You can try to rebuild and install them by by calling
2017/10/19 14:48:26 akmods: '/usr/sbin/akmods --force' as root.
2017/10/19 15:19:48 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64
2017/10/19 15:19:54 akmods: Ignoring nvidia-kmod as it failed earlier
2017/10/19 15:19:54 akmods: Hint: Some kmods were ignored or failed to build or install.
2017/10/19 15:19:54 akmods: You can try to rebuild and install them by by calling
2017/10/19 15:19:54 akmods: '/usr/sbin/akmods --force' as root.
2017/10/19 22:07:58 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64
2017/10/19 22:08:06 akmods: Ignoring nvidia-kmod as it failed earlier
2017/10/19 22:08:06 akmods: Hint: Some kmods were ignored or failed to build or install.
2017/10/19 22:08:06 akmods: You can try to rebuild and install them by by calling
2017/10/19 22:08:06 akmods: '/usr/sbin/akmods --force' as root.
2017/10/19 22:19:49 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.12.14-200.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 22:19:52 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 22:19:52 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64
2017/10/19 22:19:52 akmods: Building and installing nvidia-kmod
2017/10/19 22:19:52 akmods: Building RPM using the command '/sbin/akmodsbuild --target
x86_64 --kernels 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64 /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod.latest'
2017/10/19 22:20:18 akmods: Installing newly built rpms
2017/10/19 22:20:18 akmods: DNF detected
2017/10/19 22:21:01 akmods: Successful.
2017/10/19 22:22:21 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64
2017/10/19 22:38:47 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.12.14-200.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 22:38:47 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-100.fc25.x86_64
2017/10/19 22:38:47 akmods: Checking kmods exist for 4.13.5-200.fc26.x86_64
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