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cloverskull

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Registered: 2018-09-30

Posts: 212

nvidia-dkms rebuilding for every previously installed kernel version

Hey friends,

Today nvidia-dkms was upgraded and I noticed that it rebuilt the modules for all previously installed kernel versions. To be clear, I use 'linux' and 'linux-headers' and have never used any other kernel. But the kernel has upgraded naturally several times and today I noticed when nvidia-dkms was upgraded, it rebuilt for all those old versions.

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:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Checking Arch News with Informant ...
There are no unread news items
(2/2) Remove DKMS modules
==> dkms remove --no-depmod nvidia/535.104.05 -k 6.4.10-arch1-1.1
==> dkms remove --no-depmod nvidia/535.104.05 -k 6.4.11-arch1-1
==> dkms remove --no-depmod nvidia/535.104.05 -k 6.5.4-arch2-1.1
==> depmod 6.4.10-arch1-1.1
==> depmod 6.4.11-arch1-1
==> depmod 6.5.4-arch2-1.1

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:: Running post-transaction hooks...

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( 9/18) Install DKMS modules
==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/535.113.01 -k 6.5.3-arch1-1.1
==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/535.113.01 -k 6.4.11-arch1-1
==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/535.113.01 -k 6.4.12-arch1-1.1
==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/535.113.01 -k 6.5.2-arch1-1.1
==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/535.113.01 -k 6.4.10-arch1-1.1
==> dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/535.113.01 -k 6.5.4-arch2-1.1
==> depmod 6.5.3-arch1-1.1
==> depmod 6.4.12-arch1-1.1
==> depmod 6.5.2-arch1-1.1
==> depmod 6.4.10-arch1-1.1
==> depmod 6.4.11-arch1-1
==> depmod 6.5.4-arch2-1.1

I see in the wiki how I can remove these old modules manually, but is there some automatic way of cleaning these up so that they don't have to be rebuilt every time nvidia-dkms is upgraded?

Thanks!

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,376

Re: nvidia-dkms rebuilding for every previously installed kernel version

They'd normally not be there in the first place. Did you install kernel-modules-hook but not enable the cleanup service?

cloverskull

Member

Registered: 2018-09-30

Posts: 212

Re: nvidia-dkms rebuilding for every previously installed kernel version

Thanks! That may have been the issue. I had that installed but the cleanup service was not enabled. Hopefully this will mitigate the issue moving forward.