On 07/20/2012 10:32 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Now that he's up, which was my highest priority, I'm back to looking > around. I did a yum clean all, then yum --enablerepo=elrepo list > \*nvidia\*, and see > * elrepo: mirror.symnds.com > so this was what the mirrorlist came up with. That there's something > screwy there. > > So I just pointed my browser there, and found elrepo there under > distributions/elrepo. Anyone got any ideas why it finds that it's there, > but yum doesn't see the actual repo (and yes, the kmod-nvidia packages are > there)? > > mark Here's what the same operation looks like on my box: > [jleafey at megamind ~]$ sudo yum list \*nvidia\* > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit, > : security > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * base: dallas.tx.mirror.xygenhosting.com > * elrepo: elrepo.org > * epel: mirror.steadfast.net > * extras: mirror.raystedman.net > * nux-libreoffice.org-rpms: mirror.li.nux.ro > * rpmforge: mirror.us.leaseweb.net > * updates: mirror.raystedman.net > 1314 packages excluded due to repository priority protections > Installed Packages > kmod-nvidia.x86_64 295.59-1.el6.elrepo @elrepo > nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 295.59-1.el6.elrepo @elrepo > Available Packages > kmod-nvidia-173xx.x86_64 173.14.31-1.el6.elrepo elrepo > kmod-nvidia-96xx.x86_64 96.43.20-1.el6.elrepo elrepo > nvidia-x11-drv-173xx.x86_64 173.14.31-1.el6.elrepo elrepo > nvidia-x11-drv-173xx-32bit.x86_64 173.14.31-1.el6.elrepo elrepo > nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64 295.59-1.el6.elrepo elrepo > nvidia-x11-drv-96xx.x86_64 96.43.20-1.el6.elrepo elrepo > nvidia-x11-drv-96xx-32bit.x86_64 96.43.20-1.el6.elrepo elrepo > [jleafey at megamind ~]$ Just a thought, have you tried flushing yum's metadata? I have run across a couple of instances where yum seems to get a bit... retentive and won't retrieve new metadata for one or more repositories. I usually run "yum clean metadata" or "yum clean all", then re-try the operation. Unless it is something *I* have boogered badly it usually works. Of course, YMMV! -- Jay Leafey - jay.leafey at mindless.com Memphis, TN