[elrepo] NVIDIA and RHEL 6.5 issue (libglamoregl)

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

> When the 'Conflicts' version of nvidia is released, everyone running
> 6.5 gets affected and 'yum update' will fail. Also, if the user
> installs this version while still at 6.4, then' yum update to 6.5'
> would fail. I think this has a huge impact on our nvidia package
> users. If those who are running yum autoupdate do not notice this,
> their systems would be in trouble.
>
> Also mentioned by Phil, the existence of xorg-x11-glamor does not seem
> to have instantly obvious maleffects. I have a system running 6.5 +
> nvidia and tested it using software that extensively uses OpenGL
> (pymol, to be specific). So far, I have not noticed any problem.
>
> So the question arises. Is the [said] problem serious enough to
> justify the use of Conflicts?

Just noticed something "new" ...

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep glam
[    23.268] (II) LoadModule: "glamoregl"
[    23.269] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so
[    23.286] (EE) Failed to load
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so:
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so: undefined symbol:
_glapi_tls_Context
[    23.286] (II) UnloadModule: "glamoregl"
[    23.286] (II) Unloading glamoregl
[    23.286] (EE) Failed to load module "glamoregl" (loader failed, 7)

So, on my system, glamoregl failed to load, which explains no issue. I
have kmod-nvidia-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.

Akemi