I am having an issue when I attempt to restart. The machine power cycles normally and brings me to the login screen, however after providing my credentials, the machine freezes on a blank grey screen and becomes unresponseive (cant move mouse cursor). I force the machine to power down by holding down the power button and turn the machine back on. I am presented with a menu to select one of 3 Fedora version to use during boot. I select the newest (6.13 6-200) and am able to boot and login fine. Any further restarts require me to go through this sequence again.
Problem started just a few days ago. I have updated all applications via the software store, and running sudo dnf update
From the description it could be that whatever kernel it defaults to isn’t the latest (6.13.6-200) and somehow that kernel (or more likely/correctly its initrd image) has become corrupt.
Boot into this known-to-work latest kernel, then make it the default:
sudo grubby --set-default-index=0
The older kernels will be removed as new versions are installed (Fedora keeps 3 most recent versions by default). 6.13.7 is on its way to the testing repo as I’m writing this.
If somehow this default selection doesn’t “stick” across reboots, especialy after new kernel versions are installed, see this thread for more:
