RSSUpdated: Fixing Fedora 12 and nvidia black screen at startup
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I recently updated my Fedora 12 workstation at work and was greeted with a black screen at reboot. Actually, the screen shut off almost immediately. The console was unresponsive, so I couldn’t even log in locally by switching to a local console. (You know you are in trouble when Ctrl-Alt-F2 doesn’t work.)
From my laptop I SSH’d in and discovered that the nvidia driver had oops’d and killed X11 very dead. Searching the forums led me to believe my problem was from the most recent kernel update and selecting the previous kernel from the grub screen proved to boot normally.
This is the first occasion where I’ve ever needed to blacklist an item from yum. The process is pretty simple, so I’m jotting it down here for future reference.
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