I did a yum update this morning on my server. It is RHEL 7.8 and was running the previous latest kernel with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.82.run.
It is now running Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 11 19:12:04 EDT 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I tried installing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.66.run and it failed with the following error in /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file ‘/var/log/nvidia-installer.log’
creation time: Wed Sep 2 11:08:27 2020
installer version: 450.66
nvidia-installer command line: ./nvidia-installer
Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface
Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
→ Detected 128 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 32.
→ Tagging shared libraries with chcon -t textrel_shlib_t.
→ Installing NVIDIA driver version 450.66.
→ There appears to already be a driver installed on your system (version: 440.82). As part of
installing this driver (version: 450.66), the existing driver will be uninstalled. Are you
sure you want to continue? (Answer: Continue installation)
→ Would you like to register the kernel module sources with DKMS? This will allow DKMS to
automatically build a new module, if you install a different kernel later. (Answer: Yes)
→ Install NVIDIA’s 32-bit compatibility libraries? (Answer: Yes)
→ Uninstalling the previous installation with /bin/nvidia-uninstall.
Looking for install checker script at ./libglvnd_install_checker/check-libglvnd-install.sh
executing: ‘/bin/sh ./libglvnd_install_checker/check-libglvnd-install.sh’…
Internal error:
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file ‘/var/log/nvidia-installer.log’ for
details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README
available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
I was able to reinstall nvidia 440.82 without problem