Missing symlink "nvidia-drm_gbm.so" in Fedora driver package. Necessary for Wayland

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hi.

I’m using the official Nvidia Cuda Repostory for Fedora to install both, the cuda toolkit and the nvidia driver. It works fine but the driver packages are missing a symlink that should be there since v495 (see release notes, first highlight). The symlink should be /usr/lib64/gbm/nvidia-drm_gbm.so → /usr/lib64/libnvidia-allocator.so.VERSION.

Without this symlink Wayland session does not start at all.

I created the symlink manually, but it would be nice if it was already in the package, unless there is a reason why it is not the case. The hard part of fixing the issue was finding out that the symlink was missing at all.

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You should report this to Fedora instead, as far as nvidia goes it already should create this symlink when using the .run.

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The repo I linked is not a Fedora repo but the Cuda repo provided by Nvidia. You could have seen this, if you hovered your mouse over the link or even clicked it :). The repo provides cuda including the driver. The issue is that (in contrast to the .run file) the symlink is missing.

I don’t know how fedora should solve this problem, when the packages are provided by Nvidia.

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Ah, apologies. When said official I thought meant in the sense of Fedora and not nvidia.

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Sorry, if I read my sentence again, I absolutely know what you mean. I will edit it.

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Thanks, tracking this RPM package issue on GitHub: https://github.com/NVIDIA/yum-packaging-nvidia-driver/issues/4

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