[elrepo] bizarre issue with latest nvidia driver and kvm

[Joe Pruett]

it seems that 285 is a pre-release, so maybe it should be moved to
elrepo-testing?

so far my kvm guest under 280 is happy, so i think this is the actual
problem.

On 10/11/2011 12:10 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 11/10/11 19:01, Joe Pruett wrote:
>> my windows7 kvm guest started crashing semi regularly.  after rebuilding
>> kvm to get debugging info, i got the following traceback:
>>
>> #0  0x0000003a4a200a08 in _nv007tls ()
>>     from /usr/lib64/nvidia/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.285.05.09
>> #1  0x00000030d4e05ad9 in __nptl_deallocate_tsd () from
>> /lib64/libpthread.so.0
>> #2  0x00000030d4e0674b in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
>> #3  0x00000030d42d44bd in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>>
>> it seems very odd that kvm should ever be touching nvidia code, but that
>> seems to be the case.  i'll be rolling back to the previous nvidia
>> version and hoping that fixes the problem.  should kvm ever touch this
>> library?  or is something in the libnvidia-tls accidentally getting
>> linked against by kvm?
> Hi Joe,
>
> I see you've subsequently answered your own question regarding kvm 
> linking the nvidia libs.
>
> If you want to follow up, I'd suggest you start a thread at the nvidia 
> support forums for Linux:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
>
> and I'd suggest reading the Sticky threads at the top of the forum first 
> about how to file a bug report.
>
> There are a few nvidia devs who hang out there and they are pretty good 
> wrt tracking down and fixing bugs.
>
> Sorry I'm not able to offer anything more constructive than that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil
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