On 25/08/2019 15:50, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > On 25/08/2019 02:28, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 3:21 PM Ian Mortimer <i.mortimer at uq.edu.au> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > > > > On August 2, my desktop unit updated with > > > > kmod-nvidia-430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 > > > > which broke yum having a multiple of dependencies not being present. > > > > > > The latest from elrepo - kmod-nvidia-430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm - > > > is built for EL 7.7 and is not compatible with CentOS 7.6. > > > > > > kmod-nvidia-430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo.x86_64 is the last that will work > > > with the latest CentOS 7.6 kernel. > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Ian > > > > This issue can be taken care of by installing yum-plugin-elrepo from ELRepo. > > > > Akemi > > _______________________________________________ > > ------------------------------------------- > > Akemi, > > > > Thank you for your help. I actually had already installed yum-plugin-elrepo, and that > > was > > apparently part of the problem. When I do an update with this repo active kmod- > > nvidia- > > 430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm is the rpm that is set to be installed which does not > > work > > because I an running Centos 7.6. When I installed kmod-nvidia-430.40- > > 1.el7_7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm instead of doing an update everything worked perfectly. > > > > Looks like the elrep repsitory may have a problem with this update. > > > > > > Greg > > > > What kernel are you running? Please show the output from: > > rpm -q kernel > uname -a > > yum-plugin-elrepo is designed to mask kmod packages from the yum > transaction when the required kernel from those packages is not > available to yum. In order for the yum-plugin-elrepo to work correctly, > all kernels should be available. Unfortunately, because of the > differences between RHEL and CentOS, whereby RHEL makes ALL packages > continuously available whereas CentOS repositories ONLY contain the > latest point release and update packages, yum-plugin-elrepo may not work > correctly on CentOS in some circumstances. > > The workaround is to enable the CentOS vault repository so that all > previous kernel packages are available to yum as they are on RHEL. See > this bug: > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15476 > > Please try enabling the CentOS vault repo and see if that fixes your > issue with yum. > > Thanks, > > Phil > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Phil, > > That bug report was very helpful. > > rpm -q kernel > kernel-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 > kernel-3.10.0-957.10.1.el7.x86_64 > kernel-3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64 > kernel-3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 > kernel-3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 > > uname -a : > > 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 29 17:46:05 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > When I look at what is in elrepo I get the following : > > yum --showduplicates list kmod-nvidia > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, nvidia ^^^ the 'elrepo' plugin is missing above. Please install yum-plugin-elrepo: yum install yum-plugin-elrepo > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * base: mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net > * elrepo: repos.dfw.lax-noc.com > * elrepo-extras: repos.dfw.lax-noc.com > * epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net > * extras: mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net > * nux-dextop: mirror.li.nux.ro > * updates: mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net > Installed Packages > kmod-nvidia.x86_64 430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo @elrepo > Available Packages > kmod-nvidia.x86_64 430.14-1.el7_6.elrepo elrepo > kmod-nvidia.x86_64 430.26-1.el7_6.elrepo elrepo > kmod-nvidia.x86_64 430.34-1.el7_6.elrepo elrepo > kmod-nvidia.x86_64 430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo elrepo > kmod-nvidia.x86_64 430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo elrepo > > > As you can see I get both 430.40-1.el7_6.elrepo > 430.40-2.el7_7.elrepo as being present. If I am understanding things properly, yum > should > pick '_6' over '_7' because my system is running 7.6. > Once you have installed yum-plugin-elrepo, when repeating the above the package for el7.7 (kmod-nvidia-30.40-2.el7_7.elrepo.x86_64) should be automagically hidden until such time as CentOS 7.7 has been released. > I would think that when CentOs7.7 is released this problem will be resolved. I am very > thankful of the maintainers of these repos!!!!! > Yes, once CentOS 7.7 is released, you will be able to update to the el7.7 kernel and the corresponding kmod-nvidia-30.40-2.el7_7.elrepo.x86_64 package built for that kernel. In the meantime, yum-plugin-elrepo will ensure everything works as it should. Phil -------------------------------------------------------- Phil, I thought I had installed yum-plugin-elrepo, but it certainly was not. After installing it everything is back to normal. Thank you very much for your help!!!!! Greg