[elrepo] nVidia kmods and CUDA

[Phil Perry]

On 19/08/15 18:26, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> I'm running into an unexpected dependency problem loading the CUDA rpms
> and the elrepo kmod:
> 
> # yum install cuda
> Loaded plugins: nvidia, security
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package cuda.x86_64 0:7.0-28 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: cuda-7-0 = 7.0-28 for package:
> cuda-7.0-28.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package cuda-7-0.x86_64 0:7.0-28 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: cuda-runtime-7-0 = 7.0-28 for package:
> cuda-7-0-7.0-28.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package cuda-runtime-7-0.x86_64 0:7.0-28 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: cuda-drivers >= 346.46 for package:
> cuda-runtime-7-0-7.0-28.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package cuda-drivers.x86_64 0:346.46-0 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-kmod >= 1:346.46 for package:
> cuda-drivers-346.46-0.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-gl(x86-64) >= 1:346.46
> for package: cuda-drivers-346.46-0.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: nvidia-uvm-kmod >= 1:346.46 for package:
> cuda-drivers-346.46-0.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel(x86-64) >= 1:346.46
> for package: cuda-drivers-346.46-0.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs(x86-64) >= 1:346.46
> for package: cuda-drivers-346.46-0.x86_64
> --> Processing Dependency: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia >= 1:346.46 for package:
> cuda-drivers-346.46-0.x86_64
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package nvidia-kmod.x86_64 1:346.46-2.el6 will be installed
> ---> Package nvidia-uvm-kmod.x86_64 1:346.46-3.el6 will be installed
> ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 1:346.46-1.el6 will be installed
> ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel.x86_64 1:346.46-1.el6 will be
> installed
> ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-gl.x86_64 1:346.46-1.el6 will be installed
> ---> Package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 1:346.46-1.el6 will be
> installed
> --> Processing Conflict: nvidia-x11-drv-352.30-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> conflicts xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: nvidia-x11-drv conflicts with
> 1:xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-346.46-1.el6.x86_64
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> # rpm -qa |grep nvidia
> yum-plugin-nvidia-1.0.2-1.el6.elrepo.noarch
> kmod-nvidia-352.30-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-x11-drv-352.30-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> nvidia-detect-352.30-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> 
> I suspect some new "provides" might be required.
> 
> Pat
> 

Hi Pat,

I'm not overly familiar with anything CUDA, but from the above
transaction it does look like we might be able to get away with adding a
provides for cuda-drivers to our nvidia package(s), which should then
prevent yum trying to pull in their nvidia drivers to meet that
dependency requirement.

As a workaround, you could try manually installing the cuda and
cuda-runtime packages from above with --nodeps and seeing if that works
for you (there may be other unresolved deps though).

In the meantime, I will try to get you a set of updated packages built
with the extra provides and into the testing repo for you to test.

If there are any CUDA users out there, please feel free to chip in :-)

Phil