Re: Errors Building kmdls Myself

You have to use fakeroot 1.11 and
/var/lib must be writable (chmod 777)

You should be able to downgrade fakeroot once you get the source from f12, I guess, and recompile it ....

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On 15/08/2012, at 15:18, George Galt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Paulo (or anyone):
> 
> I've been trying to use Paulo's directions found here:
> http://people.atrpms.net/~pcavalcanti/LCG_kernel_modules.html#user to
> build my own set of nvidia kmdls.  I've been practicing on the
> existing kernel before moving on to the latest kernel, but I keep
> getting the error below:
> 
> -> License accepted by command line option.
> -> Installing NVIDIA driver version 302.17.
> -> Skipping check for conflicting rpms.
> ERROR: No NVIDIA driver is currently installed; the
> '--kernel-module-only' option can only be used to install the NVIDIA
> kernel module on top of an existing driver installation.
> + test -z ''
> + exit 1
> error: Bad exit status from /home/ggalt/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.nlq8Xy (%install)
> 
> 
> I get this error after executing the command: ./bkmdl.sh 3.4.2-1.fc16
> nvidia-graphics302.17-302.17-147.src.rpm
> 
> I currently have the following installed:
> nvidia-graphics302.17-libs-302.17-146.fc16.x86_64
> nvidia-graphics302.17-kmdl-3.4.2-1.fc16-302.17-146.fc16.x86_64
> nvidia-graphics302.17-302.17-146.fc16.x86_64
> nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.30-33.fc16.x86_64
> nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-6.fc16.noarch
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George