[elrepo] yum-plugin-nvidia breaks systems

[Akemi Yagi]

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.

I have no idea why your yum-cron suddenly decided to install those
nvidia packages. Do you have any log file to look at? Some package(s)
pulled them in???

Akemi