Subtle Livna kmod-* package bug
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Sat Mar 10 18:05:58 UTC 2007
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:07:47PM +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > M. Jones is correct, you need the Radeon proprietary driver. The good
> > folks at Livna have made it available. Enable the Livna repository;
> > see http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/UsingLivna. Then, to see what's
> > available, run:
>
> Just a heads up that there seems to be a small problem with the latest kmod-XX
> packages from livna, in that they sometimes contain invalid symlinks to the
> wrong kernel. See here for details
>
> https://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436
>
> The suggestion is this is a problem with something called /sbin/weak-modules,
> which I had never heard off until now. I sent a mail to this list about it
> but no replies so far, so maybe I'll take it to the devel list or something.
>
> I don't know if the fglrx kmods have this problem as well, but the two I have
> installed (nvidia + ntfs) both did.
I can confirm its presence; I just now pulled in
kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.2.6.19_1.2911.6.5.fc6.i686. The error may be
harmless, until one removes the older kernel, so this could be a very
subtle bug for some folks.
I do not see this in the fglrx package; there is no symlink in the
equivalent directory.
I have a box I had not updated which requires the kmod-nvidia-96xx
package. It does not have the kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6. There the
symlink does not exist, and the file is present.
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