Fails to complete akmod-nvidia build during update

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Unable to complete an regular upgrade. Have nvidia drivers installed and have been working fine previously, but now it nvida fails to build in rpm-ostree “post scripts”.

Issue started after Feb 8th update. In the past when I have seen nvidia build errors, I wait a couple days for other dependencies to update, and then proceed without issue. However, this time is different considering the dependencies required appear to be already installed. So, I am not immediately sure what the issue is.

$ sudo rpm-ostree upgrade

note: automatic updates (stage) are enabled
2 metadata, 0 content objects fetched; 788 B transferred in 1 seconds; 0 bytes content written
Checking out tree ef45a1f... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora-cisco-openh264 updates fedora rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver updates-archive
Updating metadata for 'fedora-cisco-openh264'... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264'; generated: 2020-08-25T19:10:34Z
Updating metadata for 'updates'... done
rpm-md repo 'updates'; generated: 2021-02-22T00:55:10Z
Updating metadata for 'fedora'... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora'; generated: 2020-10-19T23:27:19Z
Updating metadata for 'rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver'... done
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver'; generated: 2021-02-11T16:17:16Z
Updating metadata for 'updates-archive'... done
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive'; generated: 2021-02-19T01:43:02Z
Importing rpm-md... done
Resolving dependencies... done
Checking out packages... done
Running pre scripts... done
Running post scripts... done
error: Running %post for akmod-nvidia: Executing bwrap(/bin/sh): Child process killed by signal 1; run `journalctl -t 'rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)'` for more information

journalctl -t ‘rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)’ output…

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Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12084]: Building /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod-460.39-1.fc33.src.rpm for kernel 5.10.16-200.fc33.x86_64
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: Found bdb Packages database while attempting sqlite backend: using bdb backend.
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x15: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x17: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x18: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x19: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x1a: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x1b: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x1c: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x1d: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x1e: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x1f: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x20: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x21: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x22: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x23: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x24: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x25: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x26: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x27: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: rpmdb: BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x28: 2177/140066650498624
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: group mock does not exist - using root
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: warning: group mock does not exist - using root
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: Installing /usr/src/akmods/nvidia-kmod-460.39-1.fc33.src.rpm
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: Building target platforms: x86_64
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: Building for target x86_64
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1611619200
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]: error: Failed build dependencies:
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]:         /usr/bin/kmodtool is needed by nvidia-kmod-3:460.39-1.fc33.x86_64
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]:         gcc is needed by nvidia-kmod-3:460.39-1.fc33.x86_64
Feb 24 07:51:56 ble1-lx rpm-ostree(akmod-nvidia.post)[12143]:         xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc >= 3:460.39-1 is needed by nvidia-kmod-3:460.39-1.fc33.x86_64

Dependencies are already installed…

$ rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-460.39-1.fc33.x86_64

$ rpm -qa | grep gcc
libgcc-10.2.1-9.fc33.x86_64
gcc-10.2.1-9.fc33.x86_64

$ rpm -qa | grep kmodtool
kmodtool-1-41.fc33.noarch

Other info…

$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
● ostree://fedora:fedora/33/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 33.20210208.0 (2021-02-08T00:58:46Z)
                BaseCommit: 655b20930843360a5945a2711d...
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 963A2BEB02009608FE...
           LayeredPackages: fedora-workstation-repositories kmod-nvidia oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir samba-common-tools xorg-x11-drv-nvidia

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If I cant find what the “real” problem is, I suspect Ill just uninstall nvidia, do the upgrade, and reinstall nvidia. But it would be nice to understand the issue.

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You don’t require sudo privileges to upgrade/update rpm-ostree, I never use sudo with it. Although, that doesn’t answer your question really, and the only nvidia card I have around is so old nvidia doesn’t have drivers for it the last time I checked, so sorry I can’t test this.

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Yup, i usually don’t use sudo either. But I had attempted with sudo “just incase” during the troubleshooting workflow, and left that in my output to make it clear that I was an admin-level user on this machine. :+1:

Regarding the issue…
I ended up resetting layers, did upgrade, and re-added layered packages. It was pretty quick and painless, but it would be nice to understand what was the underlying issue if anyone is else is familiar with it.

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https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cant-update-fedora-silverblue-with-nvidia-drivers/73123/3?u=tmstaedt

resolved by now

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