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

[Darby Vicker]

Ah, that makes sense.  Thanks.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:14 PM Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com>
wrote:

> 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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