Bug 791144 - yum fails to update kmod-nvidia when installing new kernel
Summary: yum fails to update kmod-nvidia when installing new kernel
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Fedora Packaging Toolset Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-16 10:29 UTC by Frank
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:21 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 20:48:40 UTC
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Description Frank 2012-02-16 10:29:27 UTC
Description of problem:
When yum installs a new kernel (e.g. the recent kernel-3.2.6-3.fc16.x86_64), the corresponding kmod-nvidia driver (here: kmod-nvidia-3.2.6-3.fc16.x86_64-290.10-1.fc16.14.x86_64) is not installed together with the kernel. Thus, when rebooting with the new kernel, the display driver is not available and the system will not boot.
Note that the matching kmod-nvidia *is* available in the repositories, and can easily be installed manually.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-7.fc16.noarch


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. update with yum
2. kernel is updated, kmod-nvidia is not
3.
  
Actual results:
kmod-nvidia must be updated manually after kernel update

Expected results:
kmod-nvidia should be automatically updated when a new kernel is installed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-04-27 15:27:00 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 3 armando.fella 2013-01-18 13:09:53 UTC
In fedora 17 the yum update command return an error:

Error: Package: 1:kmod-nvidia-3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64-304.64-1.fc17.7.x86_64 (rpmfusion-nonfree-updates)
           Requires: kernel-uname-r = 3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64
           Installed: kernel-3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64 (@updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64
           Installed: kernel-3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64 (@updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64
           Installed: kernel-3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 (@updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64
           Available: kernel-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (fedora)
               kernel-uname-r = 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64
           Available: kernel-debug-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 (fedora)
               kernel-uname-r = 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64.debug
           Available: kernel-debug-3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64 (updates)
               kernel-uname-r = 3.6.11-1.fc17.x86_64.debug
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest



if I perform:

yum search kmod-nvidia-3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64

the system returns:

kmod-nvidia-3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64.x86_64 : nvidia kernel module(s) for 3.6.11-5.fc17.x86_64

There are two strings ".x86_64" in pkg identification by yum search.

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