diff --git a/content/blog/rebuildkernelakmod.md b/content/blog/rebuildkernelakmod.md index 55f4abb..ffcf182 100644 --- a/content/blog/rebuildkernelakmod.md +++ b/content/blog/rebuildkernelakmod.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags: [] math: false --- -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: @@ -21,3 +21,8 @@ sudo akmods --kernels 5.15.18-200.fc35.x86_64 ``` 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`.