On Qua, 2012-11-07 at 12:07 +0100, Ismael Olea wrote: cat /etc/yum.conf [main] (cut) installonly_limit=4 with installonly_limit=4 keep 4 kernels , you may increase the number ... -- Sérgio M. B.

On Qua, 2012-11-07 at 14:38 +0100, Ismael Olea wrote: so by default installonly_limit=2 if you install a 3rd kernel the first one will be marked for remove and dependencies check will remove kmods associated. If you saying to keep the kernels, kmods won't be removed, right ? -- Sérgio M. B.

* Ismael Olea [07/11/2012 13:35] : This should work. Is yum-plugin-protect-packages enabled? Emmanuel

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:37:38PM +0100, Ismael Olea wrote: ... Is this the final word on this subject? I've been suffering with this broken nvidia driver problem for a couple of days now, and I didn't know I should have done something like this. I didn't even know what the protect.d directory was for. What should I do know to roll back to an older nvidia driver so that my machine works until this gets fixed? Thanks for any advice you can offer. BTW, where would I track how and when nvidia is addressing this? http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44 is the only thing I know about. John

2012/12/6 John Schmitt <marmalodak(a)gmail.com&gt; You have a problem because you have followed this solution that was never documented in our documentation http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia We provided a solution while ago and you should should have picked it as an update. Nicolas (kwizart)

2012/11/7 Ismael Olea <ismael(a)olea.org&gt;: Having packages not removed means they can install in parallele. This is very complicated in the nvidia case because it would means having a version in the path of all libraries so ldconfig can switch which version of which driver to select, based on the versioned directory. Instead, a better solution might be related to the offline updates feature in fedora 18 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates I haven't tested anything in this area. But that would solve the case where the nvidia driver is updated on a running system. That will be a better time for updates, but it will need for the kmod to get ready in time for the offline update, specially if it's triggered by a kernel update. For the record, we try to only push version updates for kmod when a new kernel is available so the users is already invited to reboot. But booting on an older kernel is an issue if the kernel module doesn't match the userland counterpart, indeed. Nicolas (kwizart)