[elrepo] yum-plugin-nvidia breaks systems

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:19 PM Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> On 27/11/2018 20:46, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > On 11/27/18 12:41 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> >> On 27/11/2018 19:08, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >>> On 11/27/18 11:37 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:15 AM Orion Poplawski <orion at nwra.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This morning a laptop without an nVidia card in it installed the following:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Nov 27 03:42:21 Installed: yum-plugin-nvidia.noarch 1.0.2-1.el7.elrepo
> >>>>> Nov 27 03:46:19 Installed: kmod-nvidia.x86_64 410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo
> >>>>> Nov 27 03:48:22 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo
> >>>>> Nov 27 03:50:43 Installed: nvidia-x11-drv-32bit.x86_64 410.78-1.el7_6.elrepo
> >>>>>
> >>>>> effectively breaking it.  I don't know why they got installed, the system
> >>>>> just
> >>>>> did an automatic update via yum-cron.
(snip)
> > I was able to remove the nivida packages without anything else needing to be
> > removed - so something else must have been brought in as well to satisfy the
> > dependencies as well.
> >
>
> That's interesting. I'm not 100% sure what happened or why. I had no
> issue updating a non-nvidia RHEL7 system with elrepo enabled, so I'm not
> entirely sure why yum pulled in nvidia packages on your system but not
> on mine.
>
> Thanks for reporting it though, and glad it was easy to resolve.

The issue is being tracked here:

https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=882
"Updating el7.5 to el7.6 causes nvidia packages to be installed on
systems with no nvidia hardware"

Akemi