On 2024-10-20 17:23, Barry wrote:
On 20 Oct 2024, at 13:53, John Mellor <john.mellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an older Fedora 40 machine that I tried to install Fedora 41 on, and got a surprise.
For a first attempt, I tried the as-documented dnf system-upgrade steps on a fully working and stock Fedora 40. Upon reboot to actually do the install steps, a black screen is presented and everything had to stop.
For a second attempt, I elected to blow the Fedora-40 system away, and reinstall from iso. The blackscreen was presented again, but this time there was also a mouse pointer visible. Once again, there is no means of upgrading available.
This particular 2008 Dell machine has a vesa video card, and I am assuming that there is a new problem with the drivers in Fedora 41.
Is this a known problem, and is there going to be a fix before release? Or is Fedora now dropping support for older machines?
Can you install inxi and post the output of `inxi -Fzxx` so we know your hardware details?
Here are the hw details:
ystem:
Kernel: 6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.41-34.fc40
Console: pty pts/1 wm: gnome-shell DM: GDM Distro: Fedora Linux 40
(Workstation Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Studio 540 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 3 v: 01 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0M017G v: A00 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: 1.0.11
date: 03/02/2009
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Penryn rev: 7 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2336 min/max: 2003/2336 cores: 1: 2336 2: 2336 3: 2336
4: 2336 bogomips: 18662
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT216 [GeForce GT 220] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Tesla pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: VGA-1
empty: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a20 temp: 40.0 C
Display: server: X.Org v: 23.2.4 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
compositor: gnome-shell driver: dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: VGA-1 model: VGA G56x res: 1920x1080 dpi: 143
diag: 434mm (17.1")
API: OpenGL v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.0.5 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.1
direct-render: yes renderer: NVA5 device-ID: 10de:0a20
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3a3e
Device-2: NVIDIA GT216 HDMI Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID:
10de:0be2
API: ALSA v: k6.8.5-301.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.4 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: e800 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.52 GiB used: 5.29 GiB (0.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 33 C
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3500418AS size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 33 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 930.52 GiB used: 5 GiB (0.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 296.5 MiB (30.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /home size: 930.52 GiB used: 5 GiB (0.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 6.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 1567 mobo: 1429
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 6.77 GiB used: 2.32 GiB
(34.3%)
Processes: 304 Power: uptime: 14m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 255
target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: N/A Shell: Sudo
v: 1.9.15p5 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.36
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