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Brandon Rozek 2022-03-16 00:11:17 -04:00
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Akmods is the Fedora/Red Hat way of managing kernel modules. In Ubuntu, this is `dkms`. If you're like me and reboot shortly after performing an update, then you might have not given akmods enough time to compile any extra kernel modules (for example: Nvidia). This meant that I had to boot into an older kernel to try to fix the problem....
Akmods is the Fedora/Red Hat way of managing kernel modules. In Ubuntu, this is `dkms`. If you're like me and force reboot shortly after performing an update, then you might have not given akmods enough time to compile any extra kernel modules (for example: Nvidia). This meant that I had to boot into an older kernel to try to fix the problem....
Once in the older kernel, you can check the kernel versions by:
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```
to trigger the rebuild.
Though the better solution is to avoid this problem to begin with.
If you `reboot` not as root, then systemd will check to see if
any process is inhibiting the poweroff. If that's the case,
wait patiently and don't type `sudo reboot`.