[elrepo] Today's nvidia 340xx update

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Graham Allan <allan at physics.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 08:30:02PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote:
>
>> kmod-nvidia-340xx was rebuilt against the RHEL-6.7 kernel
>> (kernel-2.6.32-573.el6) to fix this issue:
>>
>> http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=583
>>
>> What kernel are you running?
>
> Sorry for my delay in reply. Been having a bunch of different machines acting
> in different ways, and trying to put together a coherent picture.
>
> We're actually running Scientific Linux 6.6, and kernel-2.6.32-504.30.3.el6.x86_64
>
> It does seem like most of the issues I see are with machines using
> kmod-nvidia-340xx (but not all, I've seen at least one with the updated
> kmod-nvidia-352.30-1 - was that also rebuilt against RHEL-6.7?).
>
> Some of them fail to start X erratically on boot, some are apparently locking
> up during use, and I see a lot of odd call traces in /var/log/messages (not
> exclusively X-related). The common message here seems to be
> "kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic"
>
> From what I can see so far, rebooting into an earlier kernel doesn't make any
> difference, but downgrading (eg kmod-nvidia-340xx to 340.76-1) does make things
> stable again.

It is actually related to this bug report:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9169

If you run a 'yum update' on your SL 6.6 machines, the 6.7 kernel
(-573) will be picked up and installed. That should resolve the issue.

Akemi