Re: Akmods run RPM install as service?

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > 2016-09-14 18:01 GMT+02:00 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com&gt;: > > I've had a few failures but not really sure as to the cause, but > I've been > > toying around with doing the final RPM install with a systemd > service > > instead of calling dnf directly with the kernel posttrans script. > > > > Thoughts? Pitfalls? > I really don't understand the method here. > Can you reproduce any issue ? or do you have received informal > informations that the posttrans script wasn't working for a reason > ? > Because for now It's working fine with me all the time, so there is > probably an unknown corner case here. Reproduce, no, but I've had a couple of occasions where I was not able to get to graphical boot. I just read about the need to run depmod on a Fedora thread. I didn't think about that so I manually erased the RPMs and let akmod rebuild them which fixed the problem. 

  > > For some known ones, the major reason why the kernel posttrans script > > might fails is because it's missing the matching kernel-devel for the > > new installed kernel. Please see: >

> > while its reported against the akmods maintainer, anyone can take this > > and implement, not only Richard or me). > > In others word, you need to force to install the matching kernel-devel > > along with the kernel update (dnf update kernel will break).> > I'm certainly not missing kernel-devel but I have had intermittent issues.  > > > Looking at the current akmods.service, can you please explain why: > > - It's using before display-manager.service (that's not the point with > > nvidia here, if the nvidia driver isn't here, we should better > > implement a fallback to anything else)> > Are you saying it should be dependent on an earlier target? I chose display-manager since nvidia is my primary use. >   > > - RemainAfterExit=yes, Can you point me why this was added ? akmods > > shouldn't remains once it has finished to build.> > Since it runs and exits (not a daemon) this option keeps systemd from thinking it failed. >   > > - It has "ExecStart=-/usr/sbin/modprobe nvidia", this is not the way > > the nvidia driver should be loaded, it's loaded by the DDX driver > > (well not that true with modern nvidia driver,but at least it shoudn't > > be loaded that way).> > I can't remember why I added that but if must have fixed a problem I was having at the time.  > > > I think having more into systemd service might help (you can trigger a > > start akmods.service from posttrans), I don't think having yet another > > akmods script will help.> > No new script, just alter the akmodsposttrans to call "systemctl start akmods-install" or whatever it will be called instead of calling akmods directly.  > Thanks, Richard