[CentOS] moderate rant un updates

[I.Piasecki]

W dniu 14.03.2013 20:37, b.j. mcclure pisze:
> This may be slightly off topic on this thread but on all my workstations
> using the Nvidia kmod from elrepo, the update to xorg removed the
> symbolic link 'libglx.so in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia
> that points to nvidia's libglx.so.304.64.  Restoring that symbolic link
> restored normal operation.  Perhaps a
>
> 'yum --enablerepo=elrepo reinstall kmod-nvidia'
>
> would have accomplished the same thing but did not try it.  Seems like
> it might not be the elrepo package that is the probleb.
>
> B.J.
>
> CentOS release 6.4 (Final)
This issue is similar to: my Fedora 19 install , rpmfusion kmod-nvidia 
and always is after xorg-x11-server-Xorg updates. I must manually 
restore this symbolic link, to gnome-shell to work not in fallback mode. 
My oftop to the thread.

I.P.
>
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 09:25 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> On 03/14/2013 09:17 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> So, another admin I work with rolled out most (but not kernel) updates to
>>> 6.4... but including xorg. I log out the end of the day, and I'm hosed -
>>> no X.
>>>
>>> Now, my not-two-year-old workstation has an nvidia card, and I'd installed
>>> kmod-nvidia from elrepo. I figured I'd fix my problem by finishing the
>>> upgrade and rebooting.
>>>
>>> Nope.
>>>
>>> I try to upgrade kmod-nvidia from elrepo. Anyone got any good explanations
>>> as to why they'd put kmod-nvidia-310.40 in the repo, with the previous
>>> version not obvious... AND NOT HAVE THE *REQUIRED* nvidia-x11-drv-310.40
>>> in there? Why not wait until both pieces could be uploaded, since
>>> kmod-nividia WILL NOT INSTALL without the other...?
>>>
>>> I then stupidly uninstalled the previous kmod-nvidia & nvidia-x11-drv,
>>> hoping it would allow a good install.
>>>
>>> Nope.
>>>
>>> Found the proprietary installer on the NVidia site, and I'm up.
>>> <rant, snort>
>>>
>>> On a related note, does anyone have a link to a howto build the NVidia
>>> proprietary driver on a kernel that's *not* running, so we could prebuild
>>> it before the reboot? I see there are options in the script, but no
>>> examples.
>>>
>>> Also, is dkms coming in, or deprecated?
>> None of those modules are in CentOS, but a 3rd party repo.
>>
>> How about you test your setup and how 3rd party repos interact with it
>> ... THEN ask on the 3rd party repo's own mailing list how or why their
>> packages no longer work with the update?
>>
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