[elrepo] Messages during install of kmod-nvidia

[Kretschmer, Jens]

Hi,

we use RHEL 7.4 and we are getting the following messages during installation of kmod-nvidia on several machines:

<redacted>[root]> yum reinstall kmod-nvidia nvidia-detect nvidia-x11-drv
Loaded plugins: langpacks, nvidia, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:384.98-1.el7_4.elrepo will be reinstalled
---> Package nvidia-detect.x86_64 0:384.98-1.el7.elrepo will be reinstalled
---> Package nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 0:384.98-2.el7.elrepo will be reinstalled
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=====================================================================================================================================
 Package                         Arch                    Version                                  Repository                    Size
=====================================================================================================================================
Reinstalling:
 kmod-nvidia                     x86_64                  384.98-1.el7_4.elrepo                    LocalELREPO                   12 M
 nvidia-detect                   x86_64                  384.98-1.el7.elrepo                      LocalELREPO                   23 k
 nvidia-x11-drv                  x86_64                  384.98-2.el7.elrepo                      LocalELREPO                   43 M

Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================================
Reinstall  3 Packages

Total download size: 55 M
Installed size: 223 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                                 87 MB/s |  55 MB  00:00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : kmod-nvidia-384.98-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64                                                                          1/3

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@<redacted> (Wed 2017-11-15 10:11:28 CET):

dracut[11094]: /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64//modules.dep is missing. Did you run depmod?


Message from syslogd@<redacted> at Nov 15 10:11:28 ...
 dracut:/lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64//modules.dep is missing. Did you run depmod?
Working. This may take some time ...
/lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64//modules.dep is missing. Did you run depmod?
/sbin/weak-modules: line 116: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp: No such file or directory
/sbin/weak-modules: line 132: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp: No such file or directory
/sbin/weak-modules: line 137: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp: No such file or directory
Unable to decompress /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp: Unknown format
/sbin/weak-modules: line 175: /tmp/weak-modules.Lvy1aX/new_initramfs.img: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/weak-modules.Lvy1aX/new_initramfs.img': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.tmp': No such file or directory
Done.
  Installing : nvidia-x11-drv-384.98-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64                                                                         2/3
  Installing : nvidia-detect-384.98-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64                                                                          3/3
  Verifying  : kmod-nvidia-384.98-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64                                                                          1/3
  Verifying  : nvidia-x11-drv-384.98-2.el7.elrepo.x86_64                                                                         2/3
  Verifying  : nvidia-detect-384.98-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64                                                                          3/3

Installed:
  kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:384.98-1.el7_4.elrepo nvidia-detect.x86_64 0:384.98-1.el7.elrepo nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 0:384.98-2.el7.elrepo

Complete!


I know that the kmod packages are built against a certain kernel version, installed for that kernel version and weak linked against all compatible kernel versions. But I think that those messages should not appear nevertheless.
The kernel 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 is the only one installed.
The kernel module is loaded and apart from the messages during the installation there are no visible errors.

<redacted>[root]> lsmod |grep nvidia
nvidia_drm             44108  1
nvidia_modeset        841676  5 nvidia_drm
nvidia              13117469  288 nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper        159169  1 nvidia_drm
drm                   370825  4 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm
i2c_core               40756  4 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,nvidia
<redacted>[root]> modinfo nvidia | grep version
version:        384.98
rhelversion:    7.4
srcversion:     C169B0DD461631A8B5EF92E
vermagic:       3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions

Someone on the CentOS Mailing List had the same problem, but did not post a solution. [1]


Br,
Jens

[1] https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2017-September/166520.html

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