[CentOS] kmod-nvidia?

Fri Jul 20 19:25:17 UTC 2012
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 20/07/12 16:55, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Jay Leafey wrote:
>> 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)?
>>
> <snip>
>> 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.
>>
> See emphasized line, above, from previous email. ^^^^^^^^
>
>       mark


Please post the output from:

cat /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo

and

yum list \*kmod-nvidia\*

thanks.

PS - This query would really be better placed on the elrepo users 
mailing lists rather than the general CentOS mailing lists.