Yum is deeply flawed lately. Removes needed kernel modules by mistake

[Robin Laing]

Peter McNeil wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> I came to work today and glanced at the yum logs.  When it installs a
>> ...
>> I can't believe I'm the only one seeing this, but nobody else is
>> yelling about it, so I must be the only one.  That makes me think I've
>> got something configured incorrectly.  I can report in bugzilla, but
>> won't do that until I'm sure it is not some bonehead mistake I've
>> made.  At least I'm consistent. It is happening on all the PCs I
>> administer...
>>   
> Re the Nvidia drivers, no you're not making any mistake, this is a 
> problem with the livna nvidia packaging, the problem is they update the 
> version numbers and the kernel module barfs when it sees a different 
> version number (I think) so they remove the old module.
> 
> I just reverted to doing the nvidia install manually you need to unpack 
> the Nvidia-blah.run using the -x flag, change to that unpacked NVIDIA 
> directory and run nvidia-installer -K to just install a new kernel module.
> 
> Having said that the livna packages are certainly easy and a good thing, 
> just not if you have a new kernel with bugs (like the 2.6.24 kernels)
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter.
> 

For Nvidia, I use the freshrpms version as it uses dkms and will 
re-create the module on reboot.  No waiting or re-installing due to 
livna being seconds behind the release of the new kernel.  :)



-- 
Robin Laing