[CentOS] elrepo kmod-nvidia issue with update

Tue May 1 06:35:12 UTC 2018
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 01/05/18 02:33, Paul R. Ganci wrote:
> 
> On 04/30/2018 05:20 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote:
>> when I do yum update, elrepo offers kmod-nvifdia, but yum does this:
>>
>> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(sme_me_mask) = 0x17fbce60 for 
>> package: kmod-nvidia-390.48-2.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(reservation_object_add_excl_fence) = 
>> 0xea98efc0 for package: kmod-nvidia-390.48-2.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: kernel(drm_vblank_init) = 0xdcd50a49 for 
>> package: kmod-nvidia-390.48-2.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64
>>
>> repeatedly, then says:
>>
>>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>
>>
>> Is there a problem on my end or theirs?
> 
> I have the same problem. When I visited the elrepo archives there was a 
> post about this problem.
> 
> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2018-April/004222.html
> 
> It appears there is a kernel driver build incompatibility that will go 
> away when RHEL 7.5 comes to CentOS. For the moment I am a just excluding 
> this update. The post suggests there is a version in testing that fixes 
> the problem but I did not see it there. It looked like it was removed. 
> For the moment I suggest patience.
> 

The updated nvidia driver package requires the new el7.5 kernel package 
which is in the CentOS CR repository.