kernel update confuses nvidia drivers, where's error message?

[John Austin]

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:52 +0000, Mike wrote:
> John Austin <ja <at> jaa.org.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> > rpmdev-setuptree
> > This downloads source rpms into home directory
> > yumdownloader --enable=livna --source nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-2.lvn9.
> > yumdownloader --enable=livna --source xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.12-1.lvn9
> > 
> > This rebuilds the binary rpms in the rpmbuild directory structure
> > rpmbuild --rebuild nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-2.lvn9.src.rpm --define "kernels
> $(uname -r)" --target
> > $(uname -m)
> 
> I tried rebuilding the kmod-nvidia module for f8 using this method - 
> it failed with:
> 
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> 
>         kernel-devel-i686 = kernel-2.6.25.14-69.fc8
>  is needed by nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-1.fc8.i686
> 
> 
> That was using the command:
> rpmbuild --rebuild nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-1.lvn8.src.rpm
>  --define "kernels kernel-2.6.25.14-69.fc8" --target $(uname -m)
> 
> I also booted into the latest kernel and tried using
> --define "kernels $(uname -r)"
> but it gave the same error....
> 
> The source files for f8 that were available were:
> nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-1.lvn8.src.rpm  
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.12-1.lvn8.src.rpm
> 
> Any ideas on this?
> 

I was running the latest kernel when carrying out
the procedure
stokes ~ 731# uname -a
Linux stokes 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 13:46:35 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and had these rpms installed

stokes ~ 730# rpm -qa|grep -i kernel|grep -i 14-108
kernel-devel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
kernel-headers-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64

So I would just try installing the matching kernel-devel for your system
yum install kernel-devel
should pull the one for the current kernel

Good luck

John