Bug 14590

Summary:	Update should not install kernel that lack matching drivers curently installed
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Morgan Leijström 2014-11-18 06:40:54 CET

Description of problem:
A normal system update installs new kernel despite any missing corresponding version of a currently used driver for video (Nvidia/AMD) and presumably same exist for i.e Virtualbox.

This may render the clients system less useable, plus waste users time trying to find out what went wrong, possibly getting angry with mageia quality.

The cause may be as simople as an official or local mirror not having synced fully, or for some reason the update did not get out.

I have experienced this myself, last time this weekend on cauldron last kernel nvidia was missing, and IIRC something went wrong with virtualbox a while ago, and here is another user on [discuss] list: https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/discuss/2014-11/msg00024.html

I propose the kernel update should not happen then, and a dialog should pop up (or when run from CLI, a message written out) saying: "There is a kernel update but currently the corresponding driver x is missing so the kernel update is skipped for now."

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Manuel Hiebel 2015-01-20 21:09:32 CET

CC: (none) => tmb
Source RPM: (none) => kernel
Severity: normal => enhancement

Marja Van Waes 2016-10-16 16:02:37 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel