[elrepo] Exotic kmod-e1000e installation issue

[Alan Bartlett]

On 8 November 2013 16:22, Nick Howitt <nick at howitts.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bumped into an exotic issue trying to install kmod-e1000e-2.5.4 built for
> ClearOS. A a bit of history I made and installed my own rpm of the stock
> e1000e driver and forgot about it. Since then I've upgraded the kernel so
> the driver can't be being used. I tried compiling and installing
> kmod-e1000e-2.5.4 but it failed with:
>
> [root at server src]# rpm -Uvh kmod-e1000e-2.5.4-1.clearos.x86_64.rpm
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>         file /usr/share/man/man7/e1000e.7.gz from install of
> kmod-e1000e-2.5.4-1.clearos.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> e1000e-2.1.4-1.x86_64
>
> Now I know I can and should remove the stock 2.1.4 rpm but out of interest I
> tried kmod-e1000e-2.3.2 and that worked fine. 2.4.14 also fails so something
> has changed between 2.3.2 and 2.4.14.
>
> Have you any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick


Hi Nick,

Sorry, I have no idea. Check you ClearOS rebuilt packages, carefully.

Examining the three official packages released for RHEL 6, this is what I see --

[Duo2 tmp]$ ll
total 412
-rw-r-----. 1 ajb ajb 136164 Apr 20  2013
kmod-e1000e-2.3.2-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r-----. 1 ajb ajb 135620 Jul  1 16:09
kmod-e1000e-2.4.14-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r-----. 1 ajb ajb 135820 Sep  7 03:06
kmod-e1000e-2.5.4-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
[Duo2 tmp]$ for K in kmod-e1000e*
> do rpm -qlp $K
> echo
> done
/etc/depmod.d/kmod-e1000e.conf
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra/e1000e
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra/e1000e/e1000e.ko
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.3.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.3.2/GPL-v2.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.3.2/README
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.3.2/SUMS
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.3.2/pci.updates
/usr/share/man/man7
/usr/share/man/man7/e1000e.7.gz

/etc/depmod.d/kmod-e1000e.conf
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra/e1000e
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra/e1000e/e1000e.ko
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.4.14
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.4.14/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.4.14/GPL-v2.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.4.14/README
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.4.14/SUMS
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.4.14/pci.updates
/usr/share/man/man7
/usr/share/man/man7/e1000e.7.gz

/etc/depmod.d/kmod-e1000e.conf
/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64
/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/extra
/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/extra/e1000e
/lib/modules/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/extra/e1000e/e1000e.ko
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.5.4
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.5.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.5.4/GPL-v2.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.5.4/README
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.5.4/SUMS
/usr/share/doc/kmod-e1000e-2.5.4/pci.updates
/usr/share/man/man7
/usr/share/man/man7/e1000e.7.gz

[Duo2 tmp]$

I thought Tim Burgess looked after the ClearOS rebuilds? If he is
still doing so, then perhaps he might have an idea.

Alan.