There is a flashing underscore beneath this, so it’s not completely frozen. What should I do? Is it safe to just force a reboot?
As someone who runs multitudes of Fedora servers with Nvidia+kmod build issues, I can say you’re fine to reboot.
Nvidia packages fail all the time, especially when there is an out of order issues, like if you’re updating a kernel before a reboot, AND also the kernel headers aren’t in place first.
Reboot, and if the drivers aren’t working (run
nvidia-smito check), just reinstall the updated packages and reboot, and it should be fine.Tough call. If it’s still flashing, you’re not frozen. But entire fresh OS installs barely take 15 min, so it’s hard to imagine that there isn’t something hung somewhere. I think you’re just going to have to decide if you’re willing to wait longer, I don’t think it’s ever really safe to hard reset mid os upgrade, but you’re likely going to have to.
Yeahhh, that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking, I guess I’ll give it another 2ish hours and see if it ever resolves
Knowing Nvidia, it’s probably supposed to display some sort of user confirmation prompt when run in interactive mode, but they forgot to disable it when doing a silent install.
hit enter a bunch, it may be waiting for input from you, but the message may have been lost
Or try <ctrl>c
Interesting, I’ll try that when I get home in a little bit
Even if this fails or corrupts, your previous kernel will be there. You can try this process again once reboot.
Just updated fedora server and workstation to 43. Both had nvidia cards in them. This issue came up to me too. Just force rebooting after a while fixed it for me. nvidia-smi reported thr cards and everything works.
Classic fuck you nvidia situation
