----- Mike Reed <mjohn.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to use puppet to install an Nvidia driver on a local workstation.
> I've written the following manifest for this puprpose:
>
> class nvidia_driver {
> # This will place the nvidia installer locally in /tmp. File is
> pulled from puppet.
> file { "/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run" :
> source =>
> "puppet:///modules/nvidia_driver/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run" ,
> ensure => present ,
> }
>
> # This will run the nvidia installer locally on the machine.
> exec { "/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run -s -X --opengl-headers
> --no-distro-scripts --force-tls-compat32=new" : }
>
> }
>
> Upon the initial run of the manifest on the target machine, everything
> works great (although I do believe there is some room for improvement of
> the code above; particularly on the exec portion) and the driver then gets
> installed. The issue occurs on subsequent puppet runs on the same machine
> and I'm getting the following error during my second puppet run from the
> client:
>
> err: /Stage[main]/Nvidia_driver/Exec[/tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run -s
> -X --opengl-headers --no-distro-scripts --force-tls-compat32=new]/returns:
> change from notrun to 0 failed: /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.53.run -s -X
> --opengl-headers --no-distro-scripts --force-tls-compat32=new returned 1
> instead of one of [0] at
> /etc/puppet/modules/nvidia_driver/manifests/init.pp:12
>
> It appears to me that the above error is occurring because the
> nvidia_driver class is running on each subsequent run and since the driver
> is already installed, I'm getting an exit status of 1 instead of 0, which
> to my knowledge would be expected.
>
> So, what I'd like to do is put some sort of condition that will look to see
> if the driver is installed and if it is, the class "nvidia_driver" won't
> run. I'm having a hard time figuring this one out and I was hoping to get
> a few opinions on how this might be accomplished.
>
> Would this potentially be a job for a shell script that does the checking?
> Maybe just adding the shell script into the "nvidia_driver" manifest?
>
> Thanks in advance for everybody's assistance and the help is very much
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
I am working with the same kind of drivers and I have a suggestion:
The driver only needs to be re-installed when the kernel changes version.
I am not sure how to implement this idea, but it is something to check against.
If I have any revelations, I will post here.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
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