On Qua, 2016-09-14 at 19:12 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > 2016-09-14 18:01 GMT+02:00 Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com>: > > > > 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.
akmods for VirtualBox fails with kernel 4.7 (waiting for new publish) , ndiswraper fail for all kernels (shouldn't be retired) , and wl-kmod latest patch just work with kernel bigger than 4.8-rc4 , (yes fails with 4.8-rc2) . > > Thoughts? Pitfalls? > I really don't understand the method here. +1 , how you install kmods ? > 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. > 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: > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3386 (please note that > 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). > 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) > - RemainAfterExit=yes, Can you point me why this was added ? akmods > shouldn't remains once it has finished to build. > - 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 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. > > Thx > > -- Sérgio M. B.
