sdubby & grubby-dummy: conflicting dependencies when installing akmod-nvidia

[RandyTheOtter]

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Qubes OS release

4.2.3

Brief summary

It is impossible to install certain nvidia dGPU drivers in fedora qubes. At least akmod-nvidia 3:560.35.03-1.fc40.x86_64 (and fc39, but EOL is coming) and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:560.35.03-5.fc40.x86_64 are affected.

Steps to reproduce

1. Get nvidia card that needs aforementioned drivers
2. Install fedora-40-xfce template, update
3. Prepare the standalone (set your own pcidevs):

{% if grains['id'] == 'dom0' %}

nvidia-driver--create-qube:
  qvm.vm:
    - name: f40-standalone-nvdrv
    - present:
      - template: fedora-40-xfce
      - label: yellow
      - mem: 4000
      - maxmem: 0
      - vcpus: 4
      - class: StandaloneVM
    - prefs:
      - label: yellow
      - virt_mode: hvm
      - kernel:
      - mem: 4000
      - maxmem: 0
      - vcpus: 4
      - class: StandaloneVM
      - pcidevs: ['01:00.0','01:00.1']
    - features:
      - set:
        - menu-items: xfce4-terminal.desktop

{% elif grains['id'] == 'f40-standalone-nvdrv' %}

nvidia-driver--enable-repo:
  cmd.run:
    - name: dnf config-manager --enable rpmfusion-{free,nonfree}{,-updates}

{% endif %}

4. Start it up (you may have to use console, on my machine gui agent doesn't work at this stage)
5. Try to install akmod-nvidia

Expected behavior

Software installs as usual, proceed to waiting for akmod to build

Actual behavior

Last metadata expiration check: 0:46:44 ago on Sat Nov  2 20:19:16 2024.
Dependencies resolved.
=============================================================================================================
 Package                           Arch    Version                           Repository                  Size
=============================================================================================================
Installing:
 akmod-nvidia                      x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree           40 k
Installing dependencies:
 akmods                            noarch  0.5.8-8.fc40                      fedora                      32 k
 bison                             x86_64  3.8.2-7.fc40                      fedora                     1.0 M
 cmake-filesystem                  x86_64  3.28.2-1.fc40                     fedora                      18 k
 egl-gbm                           x86_64  2:1.1.2^20240919gitb24587d-3.fc40 updates                     21 k
 egl-wayland                       x86_64  1.1.17^20241016git0cd471d-3.fc40  updates                     44 k
 elfutils-libelf-devel             x86_64  0.192-4.fc40                      updates                     47 k
 flex                              x86_64  2.6.4-16.fc40                     fedora                     299 k
 kernel-devel                      x86_64  6.11.5-200.fc40                   updates                     21 M
 kernel-devel-matched              x86_64  6.11.5-200.fc40                   updates                    183 k
 kmodtool                          noarch  1.1-10.fc40                       fedora                      16 k
 libgit2                           x86_64  1.7.2-4.fc40                      updates                    543 k
 libssh2                           x86_64  1.11.0-4.fc40                     fedora                     130 k
 libzstd-devel                     x86_64  1.5.6-1.fc40                      updates                     52 k
 llhttp                            x86_64  9.2.1-1.fc40                      updates                     33 k
 m4                                x86_64  1.4.19-9.fc40                     fedora                     305 k
 nvidia-modprobe                   x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree           32 k
 nvidia-settings                   x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree          1.6 M
 openssl                           x86_64  1:3.2.2-3.fc40                    updates                    1.1 M
 openssl-devel                     x86_64  1:3.2.2-3.fc40                    updates                    2.8 M
 python3-argcomplete               noarch  3.5.1-1.fc40                      updates                     96 k
 python3-babel                     noarch  2.16.0-1.fc40                     updates                    6.5 M
 python3-click-plugins             noarch  1.1.1-19.fc40                     fedora                      17 k
 python3-progressbar2              noarch  3.53.2-11.fc40                    fedora                      72 k
 python3-pygit2                    x86_64  1.14.0-1.fc40                     fedora                     286 k
 python3-rpmautospec-core          noarch  0.1.5-1.fc40                      updates                     15 k
 python3-typing-extensions         noarch  4.12.2-2.fc40                     updates                     89 k
 python3-utils                     noarch  3.7.0-3.fc40                      fedora                      69 k
 rpmdevtools                       noarch  9.6-7.fc40                        fedora                      96 k
 time                              x86_64  1.9-23.fc40                       fedora                      47 k
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia               x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree          126 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc       x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree           44 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs          x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree           59 M
 zlib-ng-compat-devel              x86_64  2.1.7-2.fc40                      updates                     38 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 python3-rpmautospec               noarch  0.7.3-1.fc40                      updates                     74 k
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs     x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree           41 M
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power         x86_64  3:550.67-1.fc40                   rpmfusion-nonfree          103 k
Skipping packages with conflicts:
(add '--best --allowerasing' to command line to force their upgrade):
 sdubby                            noarch  1.0-8.fc40                        fedora                      18 k
 sdubby                            noarch  1.0-11.fc40                       updates                     19 k
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 akmod-nvidia                      x86_64  3:560.35.03-1.fc40                rpmfusion-nonfree-updates   42 k
 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia               x86_64  3:560.35.03-5.fc40                rpmfusion-nonfree-updates  133 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================
Install  37 Packages
Skip      4 Packages

Total download size: 307 M
Installed size: 776 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 

Other notes and links

It is possible to delete grubby-dummy. In that case akmod-nvidia builds and seems to be functional, but gui agent doesn't work. It may not work for the same reason it stops working after the third reproduction step and may require its own issue, I don't have this figured out yet. Keep in mind that for akmod to build you must extend /tmp/: default 1 GB is not enough. You can use my salt state to reproduce everything after the deletion of grubby-dummy.

nvidia-driver.sls

It should be possible to install older driver version, since it doesn't have this problem with dependencies. I tried, and it only works if driver was installed before and I haven't updated yet. This most likely can be solved by rolling back the kernel on a new system. Who cares? This is old version of the driver and kernel anyway, I expect them to be deprecated at some point.

Related forum posts:

• Nvidia drivers dependencies problem; fedora39
• Nvidia proprietary driver installation help in 4.2