[SOLVED] installed kernel sources not found: nvidia, vmware

[magfan]

First I thought that there was again something wrong with the latest nvidia package because I could not start an xserver after the latest upgrade. Only nouveau was working. But when I tried to start vmware I got the error that the kernel sources are not installed in the default directory - which is wrong (see tree attachment). So, the strange thing is that kernel sources are installed correctly, I can see them, but neither nvidia nor vmware find them. What could have gone wrong here?

[doktor5000]

The tree output only shows the modules directory, no sources at all. There's no subdirectory build which points to /usr/src/ (where kernel sources and headers would reside).
As you didn't mention what kernel packages you have installed, can only guess - you're missing a suitable kernel-devel package that matches your kernel.

[magfan]

Just before I tried to reinstall some packages. But obviously this did not work properly:

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urpmi --reinstall --force $(rpm -qa | grep nvidia-current)
urpmi --reinstall --force $(rpm -qa | grep kernel | grep 5.10.33-1.mga8)

After removing and installing those packages manually using urpme and urpmi everything is OK.

[doktor5000]

Well, urpmi does not know --reinstall so for sure that did not work obviously. If you want to reinstall installed packages you'd do that via

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urpmi --replacepkgs --replacefiles packagenames

[magfan]

Yes, maybe that is a better solution. I tried the option "--reinstall" because of comment 10 to one of my bug reports: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28875 And urpmi did not complain about an unknown option.