new kernel 3.7.7 prevents booting

[Joel Gomberg]

On 02/16/2013 07:22 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/16/13 21:44, Frédéric Bron wrote:
>> new nvidia driver for 3.7.7 kernel has just arrived, problem solved.
>> It would be nice to automatically prevent kernel updates when nvidia
>> driver cannot be updated.
> That is why you should be using akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion instead of kmod-nvidia.  The binaries will be rebuilt automatically and you won't have this situation.
>
Not true in this case.  There is a bug in the nvidia installer script that 
causes the installation to fail when it can't determine the kernel version.  
Akmod-nvidia produces a failure log, which identified the issue and allowed the 
rpmfusion maintainers to write a patch.