[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 updated kmod-nvidia release [version 260.19.12]

[Phil Perry]

On 16/10/10 22:03, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
> Phil,
>
> The installation went fine and it seemed as if everything was a-ok. But ...
>
> You probably remember that I encountered a problem with an earlier
> version of kmod-nvidia in testing (2010-09-10).  The problem was that
> starting a kvm guest caused segfault.
>

That version was our first internal build of the 260.x beta release.

> I have the same issue with the current test nvidia driver:
>
> kernel: qemu-kvm[4524]: segfault at 000000394a40da11 rip
> 00002b6c82c8883f rsp 0000000043e4be80 error 7
>
> When I went back to 256.53-1, all was fine again. I really don't know
> how to debug this problem, so decided to post to the mailing lists.
> Anyone else seeing this?
>

So this looks to be an issue specific to the 260.x series driver.

To start with it would be nice to confirm that it's not an issue that we 
have introduced - i.e, it's not a packaging issue. To that end, could 
you test an install with the nvidia installer just to check you get the 
same results. Assuming you do then I guess the next step would be to 
file a bug report with nvidia.

This thread has useful information on how to file a bug report with nvidia:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678

We don't currently package the nvidia bug reporting script 
nvidia-bug-report.sh - perhaps we should? Although I guess nvidia would 
probably prefer bug reports from native unpackaged installs.