[SOLVED] NVIDIA Installer: Can't detect kernel version?

Petri Kaukasoina · 01-21-2018, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by fettycine_alguapo

I got this fixed I think.

Are you using 14.2 or current?

swaggboi · 01-21-2018, 12:49 PM

14.2 with the 4.4.111 kernel:

daniel@161850099976:~$ uname -a
Linux 161850099976 4.4.111 #2 SMP Thu Jan 11 16:35:15 CST 2018 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) X4 845 Quad Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Petri Kaukasoina · 01-21-2018, 01:32 PM

Maybe you have accidentally installed -current packages to your 14.2 system. Which gcc version do you have? It should be 5.3.0 in 14.2. 'gcc -v' will tell the version. It's linked against libmpfr.so.4, while gcc 7.2.0 in -current is linked against libmpfr.so.6.

swaggboi · 01-21-2018, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Petri Kaukasoina

Maybe you have accidentally installed -current packages to your 14.2 system. Which gcc version do you have? It should be 5.3.0 in 14.2. 'gcc -v' will tell the version. It's linked against libmpfr.so.4, while gcc 7.2.0 in -current is linked against libmpfr.so.6.

Very interesting because I do indeed have 7.2.0... how did that happen? I've done nothing (intentionally anyways) to pull this version, I just do my usual slackpkg install-new && slackpkg upgrade-all when I get an email regarding security patches from that Slackware mailing list. I tried a slackpkg reinstall gcc but it's still on 7.2.0

bassmadrigal · 01-22-2018, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by fettycine_alguapo

Very interesting because I do indeed have 7.2.0... how did that happen? I've done nothing (intentionally anyways) to pull this version, I just do my usual slackpkg install-new && slackpkg upgrade-all when I get an email regarding security patches from that Slackware mailing list. I tried a slackpkg reinstall gcc but it's still on 7.2.0

This is likely because you have your slackpkg mirror set to -current rather than 14.2. Depending on how you've handled the upgrade-all/install-new, you may be running the full development version of Slackware.

enorbet · 01-22-2018, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by fettycine_alguapo

Very interesting because I do indeed have 7.2.0... how did that happen? I've done nothing (intentionally anyways) to pull this version, I just do my usual slackpkg install-new && slackpkg upgrade-all when I get an email regarding security patches from that Slackware mailing list. I tried a slackpkg reinstall gcc but it's still on 7.2.0

Some might say that one courts abdication of "intentionally so" as soon as we rely on automation. At the very least it seems we should pay close attention to the rules we do specify that govern that automation. We need to be very thoughtful when we consider the axiom that "convenience can lead to weakness".

More to the immediate point I hope the driver install is now working properly. It seems it is. Congratulations for good sleuthing and tenacity.

swaggboi · 01-22-2018, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

This is likely because you have your slackpkg mirror set to -current rather than 14.2. Depending on how you've handled the upgrade-all/install-new, you may be running the full development version of Slackware.

So I did check /etc/slackpkg/mirrors but didn't think to check /etc/slackpkg/slackpkgplus.conf as I installed slackpkgplus when I installed multilib... I uncommented the wrong mirror in that one. I just flipped it back to 14.2 and running slackpkg again to see if it rolls it back to gcc-5.3.0. If not I should be able to figure it out manually (I hope)