[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 Updated kmod-nvidia and nvidia-x11-drv

[Alan Bartlett]

On 7 August 2010 11:50, Olaf Mueller <daily-planet at istari.de> wrote:

> trying to update to the latest nvidia packages, I am running into the
> following error message.
>
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> kmod-nvidia-256.44-1.el5.elrepo.i686 from [...] has depsolving problems
>  --> kmod-nvidia conflicts with module-init-tools
> Error: kmod-nvidia conflicts with module-init-tools
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>                        package-cleanup --dupes
>                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
> # rpm -q module-init-tools
> module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.60.el5
>
> # rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5
>
> # rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia
> kmod-nvidia-256.35-1.el5.elrepo
> nvidia-x11-drv-256.35-1.el5.elrepo
>
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

Hi Olaf,

Towards the bottom of the Announcement is a note --

NOTE: Due to the appearance of a bug in el5.5, these updated kmod-nvidia
packages will pull in an updated module-init-tools package containing a
fix as a dependency for el5.5 users. If you are using yum priorities
then you will need to allow elrepo to replace core OS/Updates files for
the purpose of this update.

-- and what you are reporting is a result of not allowing the second
sentence of that note to occur.

Please use:

yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo update kmod-nvidia

The ELRepo Project website's "Update" page [1] has a fuller description.

Regards,
Alan.

[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/Update