[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fresh install of OpenIndiana - can not upgrade nvidia from nvidia-390 to nvidia-460

[Stephan Althaus]

On 03/23/21 04:52 PM, russell wrote:
> Hi
>
> When I try the following
>
> # beadm create nvidia-460
> # beadm mount nvidia-460 /tmp/nvidia-460
> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 uninstall xorg-video nvidia nvidia-390
> Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
> pkg uninstall: Unable to remove 'x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video at 0.5.11-2020.0.1.2' due to the following packages that depend on it:
>    mate_install at 0.1-2020.0.1.42
>
> If I remove mate_install I can not re-install it as it requires nvidia-390
>
> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 uninstall xorg-video nvidia nvidia-390 mate_install
> Packages to remove: 7
> Services to change: 2
>
> PHASE                                          ITEMS
> Removing old actions                         862/862
> Updating package state database                 Done
> Updating package cache                           7/7
> Updating image state                            Done
> Creating fast lookup database                   Done
> root at tesla:/home/russell# pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 install nvidia-460 mate_install
> Creating Plan (Checking for conflicting actions): \
> pkg install: The following packages all deliver driver actions to nvidia_modeset:
>
>    pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia-460@0.460.67,5.11-2020.0.1.0:20210319T142607Z
>    pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia-390@0.390.141,5.11-2020.0.1.0:20210311T151457Z
>
> There is a hardcoded dependency on the nvidia-390 driver
>
> On 03/23/21 11:12 AM, russell wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> My dual opteron motherboard finally died, so I had to build a new
>> workstation based on a Ryzen 5 5600X.
>> Once the workstation was built, I started the Openindiana install,
>> downloading the 2020 October text based iso.
>> Very happy with the installation, no problems there as I wanted to
>> create a mirrorred boot pair of SSDs.
>> After completing the Openindiana install on the mirrored pair, I
>> performed a pkg refresh, then a pkg update creating a new BE.
>> After completing the update and I performed pkg install mate_install
>> it worked fine, though I have noticed a couple of things.
>>
>> 1) when performing a pkg install/update the create plan can take a
>> very, very long time compared to the Dual Opteron 2435 workstation.
>> ???? Things that took seconds or worse a few minutes can now take
>> hours...(literally being left over night)
>>
>> 2) When I attempted to replace the Nvidia-390 driver with the
>> Nvidia-460 driver, by removing the Nvidia-390 driver it has a
>> dependency on nvidia pkg, attempting to remove nvidia pkg results in a
>> warning that the mate install depends on pkg nvidia.
>>
>> How can upgrade to the Nvidia-460 driver?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Russell
>>
>>
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> On 03/19/21 09:07 PM, John D Groenveld wrote:
>
>> Try
>> # beadm create nvidia-460
>> # beadm mount nvidia-460 /tmp/nvidia-460
>> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 uninstall xorg-video nvidia nvidia-390
>> # pkg -R /tmp/nvidia-460 install nvidia-460
>> # beadm activate nvidia-460
>> # init 6
>>
>> John
>> groenveld at acm.org
>>
>> _
> Hello!
>
> Thanks to John to point out this possibility of changing the nvidia
> driver version and avoid intermediate reboots.

Hello!

You don't need mate-install,
it's only a meta-package, you can leave in un-installed.

Stephan