Re: Errors Building kmdls Myself

Paulo:

Yes, I've checked and I have fakeroot 1.12.  What is the difference
and is there any way to use 1.12?

/var/lib should be writeable, but I'll check again.

Thanks for the help.

George



On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Roma <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ....
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> 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