[elrepo] Failure to install kmod-nvidia on CentOS 7.4 (kernel symbol(?) requirements wrong)

[Trevor Hemsley]

On 07/11/18 20:09, Darby Vicker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running into this same issue but with a couple of machines with
> current installs.  I just installed a fresh machine this morning
> (CentOS 7.5), yum updated to get all the latest packages and then
> tried to install kmod-nvidia.  I get the same error stack as indicated
> in the first message in this thread.  
>
> Additionally, I have another machine that I newly installed a couple
> weeks ago (Oct 24) with the same procedure.  At the time, kmod-nvidia
> installed fine.  I just tried a "yum update", and I again get the same
> error message as indicated in the first message in this thread.  
>
> So I then went back to the machine I installed this morning and tried
> to install the same version of the drivers I have on my machine that
> was installed 2 weeks ago:
>
> yum install kmod-nvidia-410.66-1.el7_5.elrepo.x86_64
>
> This worked.  Is this a problem with the current nvidia packages in
> elrepo?

No. It's that RHEL 7.6 has been released so the "current" kmod-nvidia is
built for 7.6. If you run a RHEL clone then 7/6 is not out for those yet
so you cannot use the latest kmod-nvidia package as it's for 7.6.

Trevor

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