Solved Fedora 43 booting to black screen, even after reinstalls

[f33dm3bits]

Done, but same failures in name resolution


I've followed steps 1, 2, and 3 to the character, but resolvectl status is not showing any DNS servers, and resolvectl query fedoraproject.org gives resolve call failed: No appropriate name servers or networks for name found

I attach a screenshot of what my configuration looks like:

I installed a vm with Fedora and did the same changes you did and it all just works, as well as without those changes. So my best guess is that the problem is elsewhere so either your vpn setup or maybe on your internal network, ie: router that blocks other dns servers except itself?

I would just undo the previous changes that you are back to the default setup, so just rmove /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-dns-systemd-resolved.conf and then restart the services.

Then what you can try is the following, edit the file /etc/resolv.conf. The change the line "nameserver" to something like this.

#nameserver 127.0.0.53
nameserver 8.8.8.8

Then run the following.

resolvectl query linux.org
dig linux.org

The latter should show that you are using "SERVER" 8.8.8.8 where you get the answer from. If you still get a can't resolve type error I would look into your vpn setup or your home router/firewall.

 

[ozfbu]

I gave up, and reinstalled Fedora again
It turns out that, in addition to messing with my graphics drivers, the upgrade process is also wiping my WiFi connection
Sorry - I should have thought to check if I was even connected to the Wi-Fi sooner! (i.e. first) :facepalm:

For current NVIDIA cards
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
You had the package name correct, the reason it failed, it because "re-install" looks for installed packages first, then the repo.
If it never was installed, it say "no match".

You were very very close , if you would have just said "install: instead of "reinstall" it would have worked .

@ozfbu what @dos2unix said.

After it's done installing wait 2-3 minutes and then reboot.

As can be seen from the below screenshot, I am connected to the Wi-Fi, and can ping linux.org
I can also update and load the Fedora repositories
(please excuse the whitespace; I was not connected to a VPN and I was acting in a paranoid manner - I know now that the IP address shown in linux.org's IP address, not mine)

However, as can also be seen from the below screenshot...none of
akmod-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
are recognised as valid arguments - No match for argument: akmod-nvidia

Have I mis-typed something?

EDIT 1 & 2: Trying JPEG (what worked last time) and PNG (what I tried this time)
EDIT 3: Adding the exact error message:

EDIT 4: Adding the entire output manually, as neither image format is playing nice with the forums atm

user@fedora:etc/NetworkManager$ ping linux.org
PING linux.org (104.26.15.72) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 104.26.15.72: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=[<100 milliseconds]
64 bytes from 104.26.15.72: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=[<100 milliseconds]
^C
--- linux.org pin statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = [some times in milliseconds]
user@fedora:etc/NetworkManager$ sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
[sudo] password for user:
Updating and loading repositories:
  Fedora 43 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
  Fedora 43 - x86_64 - Updates
  Fedora 43 - x86_64
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: akmod-nvidia
No match for argument: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
No match for argument: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages
user@fedora:etc/NetworkManager$
[\CODE]

 

[f33dm3bits]

However, as can also be seen from the below screenshot...none of
akmod-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
are recognised as valid arguments - No match for argument: akmod-nvidia

Looking from your output it look like you don't have third party repos enabled, which it asks you if you want to enable them or not after going through the setup. The third party repos it talks about are rpmfusion repos, you can enable them manually.

Configuration - RPM Fusion

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Then try the following again.

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

You probably don't need the packages with xorg-x11 but it can't hurt installing them.

I can't see your attached images, one looks purple and one looks brown.

 

[ozfbu]

Ended up running
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
individually, as there was a connection hiccup for the non-free one

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
run. Some orange text appeared, but it completed without red error messages
Progress

I left it for 6-7 minutes, then ran shutdown now
I started up, selected Fedora; the spinning icon and the Fedora symbol appears, but then...still a black screen

Going to try installing the nVidia drivers again, in case it helps
EDIT: sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda gives

Package "akmod-nvidia-3:580.126.18-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed
Package "xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:580.126.18-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed
Package "xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:580.126.18-1.fc43.x86_64" is already installed

Nothing to do.

 

[f33dm3bits]

I started up, selected Fedora; the spinning icon and the Fedora symbol appears, but then...still a black screen

Have you tried disabling secure-boot in your BIOS? Can you take a picture of what the blackscreen looks like?

EDIT: sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda gives

To reinstall, you just use the "reinstall" command instead of "install".

What you can also try is adding this to your dracut config. Create a file /etc/dracut.conf.d/drivers.conf with the following content.

force_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm "

Then run the following.

dracut --regenerate-all --force

Then reboot, what it does is add the nvidia drivers to your initramfs which sometimes solves some issues.

 

[ozfbu]

Photo of my black screen attached

Secure boot not looked at yet

Three packages reinstalled; all happened without comment or error

drivers.conf created in dracut.conf.d

dracut-install: Failed to find module 'nvidia'

...I imagine that not being able to find an nVidia module is relevant, but I've followed your steps...

Photo of file and command output attached

 

[f33dm3bits]

drivers.conf created in dracut.conf.d

dracut-install: Failed to find module 'nvidia'

...I imagine that not being able to find an nVidia module is relevant, but I've followed your steps...

Yeah that's it.

Can you try installing "kernel-devel" and "kernel-headers"

sudo dnf install kernel-devel-matched kernel-headers -y

Then running the following?

sudo dnf reinstall akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
dracut --regenerate-all --force

 

[ozfbu]

kernel-devel-matched and kernel-headers already installed

nVidia packages reinstalled
dracut regeneration gives the same error

 

[f33dm3bits]

dracut regeneration gives the same error

I've never seen anything like it before.

What's the output of the following?

modinfo -F version nvidia
nvidia-smi

 

[ozfbu]

modinfo -F version nvidia
gives
580.126.18


EDIT: screenshot not cooperating, despite photos from the same device uploading successfully

nvidia-smi gives
[system date and time]
NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.18 Driver version 580.126.18 CUDA Version: 13.0
[to be continued]

 

[f33dm3bits]

modinfo -F version nvidia
gives
580.126.18

Please see the screenshot of what nvidia-smi gives

I can't view the image you shared it shows up as a garbled looking image. It shows that the nvidia module is installed since it's showing a version number of the installed module. What happens when you reboot now?

 

[f33dm3bits]

Also did you encrypt your installation during setup, as in do you have to type in a password before your system boots?

 

[ozfbu]

Shut down, restarted, and re-accessed Fedora. Same blank screen

I do not have to type in a password before my system boots

Screenshot of nvidia-smi attached, and should be legible this time

 

[f33dm3bits]

Screenshot of nvidia-smi attached, and should be legible this time

That's show the driver is installed and loaded. Are you using Gnome or KDE Plasma?

 

[f33dm3bits]

I do not have to type in a password before my system boots

You can then remove this.

Create a file /etc/dracut.conf.d/drivers.conf with the following content.

 

[ozfbu]

That's show the driver is installed and loaded. Are you using Gnome or KDE Plasma?

KDE Plasma

You can then remove this.

Copy that

 

[f33dm3bits]

KDE Plasma

What happens when you restart your login manager. So the following?

sudo systemctl restart sddm

 

[ozfbu]

sudo systemctl restart sddm
yields the usual Fedora login screen from which I can log in, and Discover Software Centre informs me that I'm fully up-to-date

Restarting returns the black screen, but Ctrl+Alt+F3, logging in via the terminal, then running sudo systemctl restart sddm gets me back to the login screen again
Massive progress! Thank you very much!

 

[f33dm3bits]

sudo systemctl restart sddm
yields the usual Fedora login screen from which I can log in, and Discover Software Centre informs me that I'm fully up-to-date

Restarting returns the black screen, but Ctrl+Alt+F3, logging in via the terminal, then running sudo systemctl restart sddm gets me back to the login screen again
Massive progress! Thank you very much!

Share the output of the following, just so I know what the status before running another command.

systemctl status sddm

Then run the following.

sudo systemctl enable sddm

Then reboot, what happens then?

 

[ozfbu]

Share the output of the following, just so I know what the status before running another command.

systemctl status sddm

Photo attached

Then run the following.

sudo systemctl enable sddm

Then reboot, what happens then?

Same black screen, which can still be overcome by sudo systemctl restart sddm