[ATrpms-users] Nvidia KMDL with New FC6 Kernel

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:37:18PM -0500, John Welch wrote:
> Not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm doing something wrong.  I'm running FC6
> with several packages from the ATrpms repo, including the Nvidia stuff.
> Just a bit ago I ran Smart and saw that there was a new kernel (
> kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6) available.  Smart did not pick up that this kernel
> update would also require an update to the Nvidia KMDL package, and I'm not
> sure if it should have or not.

Indeed smart has no support for coinstalling other packages. You can
use a three liner, though:

http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/2005-May/003043.html

> I then decided to tried yum, because I thought the yum-plugin-kmdl
> package was supposed to handle situations like this.  However, when
> I ran 'yum check-update' it did not show that the new 'kmdl' package
> would be installed/updated.

That should had been catched and I tested it earlier today. Perhaps
"check-update" and "update" behave differently.

> Using yum, I updated the kernel anyway.  I then manually downloaded
> the 'kmdl' package for this new kernel, and tried to install it.
> But when I run rpm to do the install I get the following error:
> 
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2868.fc6
> /updates/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia-1_0-9631.ko;45882886: cpio: read
> 
> I've tried it a few times, with the same results, except for the number
> after the '.ko;' seems to change.  I also tried using yum to get the package
> and got a similar error message.

Strange, did you rpm -Vp on the package?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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