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[[Linux-announce] ] broken Nvidia driver installation (RHEL8 & RHEL9)

From: "Konrad Bucheli (PSI)" <konrad.bucheli AT psi.ch>
To: linux-announce AT lists.psi.ch
Subject: [[Linux-announce] ] broken Nvidia driver installation (RHEL8 & RHEL9)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:40:41 +0200
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Hi

Nvidia recently released dnf-plugin-nvidia version 2.1 which is broken.

Impact: During boot a computer with RHEL 8 or 9 and an Nvidia GPU will automatically check if the installed Nvidia driver is correct and if not it will ensure that the desired version is installed. Now dnf-plugin-nvidia v2.1 breaks the installation procedure and leaves the system without usable GPU driver.

We started to distribute the broken version on our package repository on 11.06.2024 late in the evening and starting this afternoon the erroneous packages are removed in the latest snapshot. If you use a repo tag from in between, you should consider moving it.

Please check if you have the broken version installed:

# rpm -q dnf-plugin-nvidia
dnf-plugin-nvidia-2.1-2.el8.noarch
#

and if that is the case, downgrade:

# dnf clean all
...
# dnf install dnf-plugin-nvidia-2.0
...

Note that without an explicit configuration it currently installs the driver branch 535. We consider changing the default to 550.
The plan is to have this in Puppet "preprod" next Tuesday 25.06.2024 and in "prod" 02.07.2024.

Feel free to contact linux-eng AT psi.ch if you have questions or need support.

Cheers
Konrad

--
Paul Scherrer Institut
Konrad Bucheli
Linux Systems Engineer
Core Linux Research Services
Science IT Infrastructure and Services department (AWI)
OBBA/230
Forschungstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland

Phone: +41 56 310 27 24
konrad.bucheli AT psi.ch
www.psi.ch

[[Linux-announce] ] broken Nvidia driver installation (RHEL8 & RHEL9), Konrad Bucheli (PSI), 06/18/2024