Decompression failed with status 6

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I’m testing Fedora 42 (actually, Bluefin) and I’m having problems with Nvidia proprietary driver that’s not working. When it tries to load the nvidia drivers it shows this error in dmesg:

decompression failed with status 6

It seems to be this problem here https://www.mail-archive.com/kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg18716.html

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rpm -q kmodtool *\nvidia\*

or what is the rpm-ostree equivalent

$ rpm -q --changelog kmodtool-1.1-13.fc42.noarch
* Thu Mar 06 2025 Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@gmail.com> - 1.1-13
- Use fedora compression flags
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$ rpm -q kmodtool
package kmodtool is not installed

$ rpm -q --changelog kmodtool
package kmodtool is not installed
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Where does bluefin get nvidia?
I fixed the issue nearly a month ago for fedora kmod-tool package and I also disabled the cause completely in akmod-nvidia.

Disable compression completely, it's more hassle than it's worth! · rpmfusion/nvidia-kmod@73377ab · GitHub

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I think they use the Negativo17.

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It looks like negativo17 nvidia-kmod uses fedora kmodtool, it should function.

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Bluefin seems to install nvidia-akmod (akmods/build_files/nvidia/build-kmod-nvidia.sh at main · ublue-os/akmods · GitHub)

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Raise the issue at GitHub · Where software is built