Re: CURRENT breaks loading of nvidia.so

From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps_at_selasky.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:45:04 +0100
On 01/17/15 16:18, Bob Willcox wrote:
> Yesterday when I upgraded my current box I encountered this failure when
> attempting to load the nvidia-driver (nvidia.so):
>
> link_elf_obj: symbol _callout_stop_safe undefined
> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
>
> So, today I updtated my system again today hoping it might be fixed but the
> problem persists.
>
> System info:
>
> FreeBSD han.immure.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #4 r277299: Sat Jan 17 08:52:41 CST 2015     bob_at_han.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAN  amd64
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>

Hi,

The nvidia-driver package needs to be recompiled with the latest 
FreeBSD-current sources, because of changes in the callout subsystem.

If this is not possible, we can temporarily add the "_callout_stop_safe" 
symbol to the kernel for some transition time.

--HPS
Received on Sat Jan 17 2015 - 14:44:18 UTC

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