akmod Nvidia dependencies

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 12:50:00 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 07:37 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 13:19:47 +0100
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > > So the problem is not with compilation, it's with dnf locking 
> > > itself
> > > out.
> > 
> > That's probably why yum runs the akmod compile in the background
> > rather than waiting on it because when it waited on it, the 
> > database
> > was locked :-).
> > 
> 
> Sorry guys, I've been out of town for work and other $FAMILY and 
> $DAYJOB
> issues so I'm going to take a look. There's a couple of open bugs 
> with
> akmods but I'm not 100% sure that the fixes mentioned address this
> particular issue so any help investigating and reporting 
> success/failure is
> appreciated.

My only "fix" (really a workaround) was to run the process manually,
when dnf wasn't locking it out. There's clearly a race of some kind
with the normal installation process.

poc



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