Bug 13079 - NVIDIA proprietary X.Org driver is unusable (are symlinks removed during rpmbuild process?)
Summary: NVIDIA proprietary X.Org driver is unusable (are symlinks removed during rpmb...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 4
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2014-03-24 01:43 CET by Davy Defaud
Modified: 2014-05-25 11:59 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: nvidia304-304.119-1.mga4.nonfree.src.rpm
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Description Davy Defaud 2014-03-24 01:43:08 CET 
It seems that all symlinks of the package in regular paths to the nvidia prefixed directories (nvidia304 for instance) are missing. So shared libraries and binary executables are not found in their paths and there's no visible NVidia desktop file.

rpm -ql x11-driver-video-nvidia304-304.119-1.mga4.nonfree
/etc/OpenCL
/etc/OpenCL/vendors
/etc/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia.icd
/etc/X11/xinit.d/nvidia-settings.xinit
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/display-driver.conf
/etc/nvidia304
/etc/nvidia304/XvMCConfig
/etc/nvidia304/ld.so.conf
/etc/nvidia304/modprobe.conf
/etc/nvidia304/nvidia-settings.xinit
/etc/nvidia304/nvidia.icd
/usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh
/usr/bin/nvidia-debugdump
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
/usr/bin/nvidia-smi
/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig
/usr/lib/nvidia304
/usr/lib/nvidia304/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/nvidia304/libGL.so.304.119
/usr/lib/nvidia304/libnvidia-glcore.so.304.119
/usr/lib/nvidia304/libnvidia-ml.so.1
/usr/lib/nvidia304/libnvidia-ml.so.304.119
/usr/lib/nvidia304/libnvidia-tls.so.304.119
/usr/lib/nvidia304/libvdpau_nvidia.so
/usr/lib/nvidia304/tls
/usr/lib/nvidia304/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.304.119
/usr/lib/nvidia304/vdpau
/usr/lib/nvidia304/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.304.119
/usr/lib/vdpau
/usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1
/usr/lib64/nvidia304
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/bin
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/bin/nvidia-debugdump
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/bin/nvidia-settings
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/bin/nvidia-smi
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/bin/nvidia-xconfig
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libGL.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libnvidia-cfg.so.1
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libnvidia-cfg.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libnvidia-glcore.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libnvidia-ml.so.1
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libnvidia-ml.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libnvidia-tls.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/libvdpau_nvidia.so
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/tls
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/vdpau
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/xorg
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/xorg/libglx.so
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/xorg/libglx.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/xorg/libnvidia-wfb.so.1
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/xorg/libnvidia-wfb.so.304.119
/usr/lib64/nvidia304/xorg/nvidia_drv.so
/usr/lib64/vdpau/libvdpau_nvidia.so.1
/usr/share/applications/mageia-nvidia-settings.desktop
/usr/share/doc/x11-driver-video-nvidia304
/usr/share/doc/x11-driver-video-nvidia304/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/x11-driver-video-nvidia304/NVIDIA_Changelog
/usr/share/doc/x11-driver-video-nvidia304/README.install.urpmi
/usr/share/doc/x11-driver-video-nvidia304/README.manual-setup
/usr/share/doc/x11-driver-video-nvidia304/README.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/nvidia304-settings.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/nvidia304-settings.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/nvidia304-settings.png
/usr/share/man/man1/alt-nvidia304-settings.1.xz
/usr/share/man/man1/alt-nvidia304-smi.1.xz
/usr/share/man/man1/alt-nvidia304-xconfig.1.xz
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1.xz
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-smi.1.xz
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-xconfig.1.xz
/usr/share/nvidia304
/usr/share/nvidia304/mageia-nvidia-settings.desktop

ls -l /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig: No such file or directory

Shouldn't this "file" be a symlink to /usr/lib64/nvidia304/bin/nvidia-xconfig?

How is it possible that the RPM package is supposed to provide /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig despite there's no such file/symlink? Shouldn't rpmlint prevent such cases?

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Steps to Reproduce:
Davy Defaud 2014-03-24 01:44:00 CET

Summary: NVIDIA proprietary X.Org driver is unusable (symlinks are removed during rpmbuild process?) => NVIDIA proprietary X.Org driver is unusable (are symlinks removed during rpmbuild process?)

Comment 1 Doug Laidlaw 2014-05-22 21:20:18 CEST 
Have you at last found the solution to the bug that has been around since Mga 3?

CC: (none) => laidlaws

Comment 2 claire robinson 2014-05-25 00:22:02 CEST 
Adding some CC's

CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, tmb

Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2014-05-25 11:59:50 CEST 

We handle the symlinks thorugh update-alternatives as:

x11-driver-video-nvidia-current
x11-driver-video-nvidia304
x11-driver-video-nvidia173

all need to provide the symlinks, so the files showing up in rpm file list are marked %ghost

You need to configure the driver through XFdrake (MCC -> Hardware -> Setup graphical server) so it will trigger all the needed configuration changes.

If you insist on doing stuff manually, read /usr/share/doc/x11-driver-video-nvidia304/README.manual-setup

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
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