[CentOS] C7.6 Update problem

Il 27/08/19 12:55, Phil Perry ha scritto:
> On 27/08/2019 11:35, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> today I tried to update my centos workstation (7.6.1810).
>> My problem concerns kmod-nvidia update. Nvidia driver where installed 
>> by elrepo.
>> During running yum update I get:
>>
>>
>> kmod-nvidia.x86_64 430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo           elrepo
>>
>> and I also get several statements like this:
>>
>> Errore: Pacchetto: kmod-nvidia-430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo.x86_64 (elrepo)
>>              Richiede: kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x5b116915
>>              Installato: kernel-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 (@anaconda)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Installato: kernel-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64 (@updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Installato: kernel-3.10.0-957.12.2.el7.x86_64 (@updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Installato: kernel-3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 (@updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Installato: kernel-3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 (@updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Disponibile: kernel-3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64 (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Disponibile: kernel-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Disponibile: kernel-3.10.0-957.10.1.el7.x86_64 (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Disponibile: kernel-3.10.0-957.21.2.el7.x86_64 (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0xb911786f
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 (base)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.10.1.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.12.2.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.21.2.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>              Disponibile: kernel-debug-3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 
>> (updates)
>>                  kernel(drm_atomic_helper_check) = 0x1b358289
>>
>>
>> I noticed that running "yum list kmod-nvidia"  I have installed 
>> version 430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo and now is available version 
>> 430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo and the first thing that I see is minor release 
>> change from 7_6 to 7_7.
>>
>> Reading from this https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=920&nbn=4 seems 
>> that kmod-driver was uploaded for 7.7 release but centos is on 7.6. 
>> I'm not using elrepo-testing but yum try to update 7_7 version.
>>
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
> 
> Yes, please install yum-plugin-elrepo which will fix the 'issue' for you.
> 
> Yum is telling you that it can not install the latest kmod-nvidia 
> version because it requires the CentOS 7.7 kernel, which is not yet 
> available to you.
> 
> By installing yum-plugin-elrepo, the plugin will mask (hide) from yum 
> any kmod package which requires a kernel which is not available to yum. 
> Once the CentOS 7.7 kernel becomes available to you, yum will then also 
> see the corresponding kmod-nvidia update for that kernel and you will be 
> able to update as required.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil
> 
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Hi Phil,
thank you for your answer. I don't know anything about the existence of 
this plugin. Thank you very much.

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