Re: akmod timing problem or what?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 08:46 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 07:11:59 -0500
> Richard Shaw wrote:
> 
> > Was RPM being updated in the same transaction? This bug[1] seems to
> > indicate that the database being updated can cause this problem...
> 
> Yep, looks like rpm shows up in the log as being updated, though
> I have never actually figured out what the heck akmod does and if
> it is part of the same transaction or not. If I poke around on
> the system during the dnf update, I see akmod build the new
> nvidia driver while dnf update is still running, so I'm not
> sure how an rpm that didn't exist at the start of the dnf update
> could be part of the same transaction :-).
> 
> Thanks for the info. Looks like it won't be a problem I see
> very often.

This or similar problems do show up quite often. I think it's because
the akmod update builds a new rpm and tries to install it while dnf
itself is still running, so there's race condition on the rpm database.
If you run the rpm install after dnf finishes it will work.

poc
_______________________________________________
users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [EPEL Devel]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux