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Bug 61462

Summary: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111 fails to compile for kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 and others...
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Burl Nyswonger <burl>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Andrew Bevitt <andrewbevitt>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: x11
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Burl Nyswonger 2004-08-23 19:24:38 UTC
Whenever I tried to install, it would fail with the strage and misleading message telling me that I needed to make mrproper for my kernel dir.  Doing so did not help the situation.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge '>=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111'
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
error

Expected Results:  
success - it has always worked in prior versions... (a recent portage sync made
me update to 1.0.6111 and it has failed now)

I tried running the install using the 'nvidia-installer' and got the same
results, so -- unpacking the package with 'ebuild ... unpack', then changing to
the portage workdir (/var/tmp/...), I did:

   ./nvidia-installer --add-this-kernel

Followed by:

    ./nvidia-installer

and it worked fine -- it seems it did not understand my kernel version, so the
'--add-this-kernel' is what I needed to get past the issue.  I did an 'emerge
inject' to keep portage from complaining after that.
Comment 1 Andrew Bevitt 2004-08-24 02:03:21 UTC
Upgrade to >= 2.6.6; or if you cannot, see my comments at the end of the duplicate for more.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56499 ***