xorg yum update uninstalls dell-nvidia rpm

[Tony Schreiner]

ronnie at maths.strath.ac.uk wrote:
> Model: Dell Precision Wkstn 690
> OS: Scientific Linux 4.4 (RHEL 4.4 clone)
> 
> Does anyone know of a reason as to why 
> any patch to xorg results in the dell-nvidia
> rpm being erased on my two PW690s ?
> It's happenned on the last two released
> updates to the xorg packages.
> It doesn't happen on our i686 workstation 
> or opteron based x86_64 ones using the
> dell-nvidia rpm.
> 
> Yum transaction included below.
> 
> cheers,
> Ronnie
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: root at localhost.localdomain
> To: root at localhost.localdomain
> Date: 11 Jan 2007 05:56:55 -0000
> Subject: YUM:localhost.localdomain:2007-01-11
> 
>   --------------------
>   YUM - errata
>   --------------------
> 
> -------- Uninstall Beginning --------
> Module:  nvidia
> Version: 1.0-8765
> Kernel:  2.6.9-42.0.3.EL (x86_64)
> -------------------------------------
> 
> Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.
> 
> nvidia.ko:
>   - Uninstallation
>     - Deleting from: /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL/kernel/drivers/video/
>   - Original module
>     - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
>     - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
> 
> DKMS: uninstall Completed.
> 
> -------- Uninstall Beginning --------
> Module:  nvidia
> Version: 1.0-8765
> Kernel:  2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp (x86_64)
> -------------------------------------
> 
> Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.
> 
> nvidia.ko:
>   - Uninstallation
>     - Deleting from: /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/video/
>   - Original module
>     - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
>     - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
> 
> /etc/modprobe.conf: removed 'alias char-major-195 nvidia'
> 
> DKMS: uninstall Completed.
> 
> ------------------------------
> Deleting module version: 1.0-8765
> completely from the DKMS tree.
> ------------------------------
> Done.
> 
> =============================================================================
>   Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Updating:
>   xorg-x11                x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata          13 M
>   xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL     i386       6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         379 k
>   xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL     x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         435 k
>   xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU    x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         454 k
>   xorg-x11-deprecated-libs  x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         269 k
>   xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel  x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         277 k
>   xorg-x11-devel          x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         5.5 M
>   xorg-x11-font-utils     x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         305 k
>   xorg-x11-libs           i386       6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         2.7 M
>   xorg-x11-libs           x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         2.9 M
>   xorg-x11-tools          x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         545 k
>   xorg-x11-twm            x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         352 k
>   xorg-x11-xauth          x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         282 k
>   xorg-x11-xdm            x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         354 k
>   xorg-x11-xfs            x86_64     6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  sl-errata         324 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      0 Package(s)
> Update      15 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 28 M
> 
> Updated: xorg-x11.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-devel.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-libs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-libs.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-tools.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-twm.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-xauth.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-xdm.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 xorg-x11-xfs.x86_64 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> 
> 
> ---------------
> Yum.log extract:-
> ---------------
> Jan 11 05:56:13 Updated: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:23 Updated: xorg-x11-libs.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:24 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:24 Updated: xorg-x11-font-utils.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:25 Updated: xorg-x11-libs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:26 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:26 Updated: xorg-x11-xauth.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:26 Updated: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:27 Updated: xorg-x11-xfs.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:32 Updated: xorg-x11.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:32 Updated: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:37 Updated: xorg-x11-devel.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:38 Updated: xorg-x11-tools.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:39 Updated: xorg-x11-xdm.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:39 Updated: xorg-x11-twm.x86_64 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
> Jan 11 05:56:51 Erased: dell-nvidia
> 

By experience, installing xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL will result in the removal 
of dell-nvidia, and vice versa.

Tony