Nvidia cards and Fedora 22 kernel upgrades

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/06/15 19:01, Dave Pawson wrote:
> On 6 July 2015 at 11:53, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> Running F22/KDE with GeForce GTX 660 and the nVidia drivers from RPMfusion (akmod).
>>
>> The problem I see when updating kernels via dnf.  dnf has the RPM database locked so the rpm's can't be installed during the update.  Supposedly, that should be taken care of during the reboot but it hasn't worked for me.  So, I just manually do it as suggested in the akmods.log prior to reboot.
> Sounds good Ed - sorry to sound so ignorant.
> "As suggested in akmods.log"...
>   no such file found on my F22 install?
>
> What does 'manually do it' mean please?

The log is in /var/cache/akmods/ called akmods.log

The "failure" looks like this....

2015/06/28 18:25:41 akmods: Building and installing nvidia-304xx-kmod
2015/06/28 18:25:41 akmods: Building RPM using the command '/bin/akmodsbuild --target x86_64 --kernels 4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64 /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-304xx-kmod.latest'
2015/06/28 18:26:00 akmods: Installing newly built rpms
2015/06/28 18:26:01 akmods: Could not install newly built RPMs. You can find them and the logfile
2015/06/28 18:26:01 akmods: 304.125-3.10-for-4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64.failed.log in /var/cache/akmods/nvidia-304xx/
2015/06/28 18:26:01 akmods: Hint: Some kmods were ignored or failed to build or install.
2015/06/28 18:26:01 akmods: You can try to rebuild and install them by by calling
2015/06/28 18:26:01 akmods: '/usr/sbin/akmods --force' as root.

And the last line shows you the command to run before you reboot.