"driver referenced before assignment" warning at boot!?

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Wed Sep 17 16:52:48 UTC 2008


Hi;

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:55 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Tim;
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 13:05 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:30 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > When I originally installed the new "*.26.3* kernel. the oldest kernel
> > > was not removed as usual.  (Perhaps the full installation was not
> > > completed??)
> > 
> > How many kernels do you have installed?   rpm -q kernel
> > 
> Normally I usually have two kernels installed.
> 
> However;
> $ rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64
> 
> > You normally should have more that one, new ones are installed as well
> > as older ones, and older ones only removed when there are too many.  I
> > think the current default is two, but I've changed mine to keep about
> > five installed.  That allows for debugging, and easy reversion back to
> > an older kernel should a newer one have problems (it's just a boot
> > choice, rather than having to install something).
> > 
> Yes, I know.  I only mentioned the lack of removal of the third kernel
> because it might be indicative of an incomplete or improper install.
> 
> yum-complete-transaction says everything was completely installed
> however.
> 
> I was thinking of booting into kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64; removing
> kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64 and re-installing that kernel unless
> someone has a better solution or can tell me why I am getting the
> "driver referenced before assignment" warning at boot.

Before I screw everything up here can I be reassured that it is all
right to erase the nvidia driver?

# rpm -e kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64
error: Failed dependencies:
	kernel-uname-r = 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64 is needed by (installed)
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64-173.14.12-2.fc9.x86_64.

I am currently running in kernel 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64.


-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3
Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1




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