hello all,

thank you for looking at this thread. I'm really quite unsure what to do.

Fedora 23 Workstation Edition kernel 4.2.6-301.fc23

I just installed rpmfusion's nvidia akmod driver for my geforce go 7600 and all the related dependencies on a fedora 23 install. I also installed the latest kernel-devel package (4.2.6-301.fc23) and then did a whole system update which included kernel updates.

near completion, my screen went black and dropped out of any graphical into a text console with some text I cannot recall.

I restarted my system (Ctrl-Alt-Del) on Virtual Terminal 2 and then found that running the latest fedora + kernel led to a bunch of text ending in "2.864972 End Trace ..." and using any older kernel ends with gdm starting and then an infinite loop of creating, starting and then stopping "user manager for UID 42" and "created/removed slice user-42.slice

trying the fedora rescue boot option. that ended up with the same loop.

so i booted up an extremely old partition with kubuntu on it and came here for help!

any help on how to undo or diagnose this would be great!

What is the version of driver, 304.131 is the latest version for your card.

why do you think installing the newest kernel will help for getting an almost 10 year old card to work?
do what Emerson suggested.

Hello, thanks for the replies. I'm glad someone responded.

I didn't assume the kernel update would help, it was just part of the instructions on rpmfusion's website. 1: install nvidia driver 2: update system (this happened to include a new kernel)

I did get the latest nvidia driver for that card, I'm sure of it because I checked ahead of time.

However, the issue now is just getting my system back up and running at all. I managed to chroot in from kubuntu and uninstall/remove the nvidia driver and dependencies. I also removed the kernel-devel package. I then reinstalled the latest kernel and ran grub2-mkconfig to fix the menu entries.

Nothing has changed - first boot option fails with kernel panic, "not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)" and second menu option infinite loops.

the third option, kernel 4.2.5 gets me in! but, oddly the wired ethernet internet doesn't work and so I'm unable to do much.

This means the kernel is unable to handle your SATA (PATA, SCSI) controller.

Generally nvidia driver has to be compiled against running kernel, otherwise it won't load.

Your network interface naming can be unpredictable, run to see if it exists.

Hi...

Welcome to the forum

Not sure I can help here but has this been the case with Fedora 23 or just since you started using the kernel you mentioned above?

In addition to what Emerson has requested, please also provide the results of...

Thanks!

ok, so you're still using fedora's standard kernel, you just happened to say that in a way that we were thinking you're using some bleeding edge kernel?

what to do:
tell your system to not load a graphicel desktop, and start diagnosing from there.

thoughts:
- what is this rpmfusion and what exactly were the instruction? maybe they're outdated?
- did you really get the nvidia driver that fits both your graphic card and your current kernel? i find that a little hard to believe - a 4+ kernel, and an nvidia legacy driver for an ooold card. maybe you're stuck with nouveau with this combination.

Actually 304.131 will build against 4.2.x. Maybe even 4.3. They keep it updated.