Description of problem: The latest Live isos cannot be booted under the nvidia proprietary driver. A console shows that the module is being built and that there is an attempt to install it - this probably fails (my guess is improperly installed) - and the cycle starts again. It is an endless loop. Based on the troubles with nvidia since the new support scheme was announced, another guess is that this is another example of the wrong version of the proprietary driver being selected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia7 beta1 second round Plasma/GNOME How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot one of the live isos from a USB stick on an nvidia machine 2. Select the proprietary driver 3. Hit Esc to see what is going on under the hood - endless loop of building and installing the kmod for nvidia.
CC: sysadmin-bugs => kernel, marja11Assignee: bugsquad => isobuildKeywords: (none) => 7beta1
Which version of the proprietary driver works on this machine (in cauldron)? When booting, you should see a message telling you which driver is being built and installed - is it the right one?
CC: (none) => mageia
Actually I just fund out drakx is not handling the new/ upstream changed layout of the nvidia-current driver, so I need to fix it
CC: (none) => tmb
Ok, so drakx checks for existence of libglx. When I was about to change that I realized there might be other software out there that searches for libglx (that exists in all other nvidia drivers, so I went the other way... I've added libglx compat symlinks in nvidia-current-410.78-2.mga7 so it will cover both older and newer code..
@Martin, re comment 1: I have lost track of what was happening with the Lives but with normal nvidia updates there have been a couple of instances of nividia304 being built on reboot, which is entirely inappropriate for the hardware and out of step with installing series 420 and later using drakx11, either in runlevel 3 or before rebooting. Let's hope that Thomas's latest changes resolve the confusion around nvidia installations.
nvidia304 is no longer available in cauldron, so it would definitely fail to build. If you do still see it being chosen, please open a bug for that.
Although Thomas's changes should fix the original problem Len saw, there is another problem that prevents the proprietary drivers being installed during Live system boot - see bug 24037.
Depends on: (none) => 24037CC: (none) => andrewsfarm
I think this is fixed now. Len, feel free to reopen if you disagree.
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
No, I agree Martin. I have not seen any problems lately.