runbook(park 100): hold kernel metas on NVIDIA-DKMS hosts (fv-ml1 6.12.111 DKMS failure)

2026-10-05 02:42:41 -07:00
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@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ same window as its Docker storage move (its holds are listed at the bottom).
  may upgrade.
 - **NVIDIA/CUDA user-space (`nvidia-* libnvidia-* cuda-* libcuda*`) is held on the GPU LXCs (esh-ml1, nh3-ml1) and
  pfi-gx10.** In an LXC it must match the host's kernel driver.
+- ⚠ **Kernels on any host that builds NVIDIA with DKMS** (hold `linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64`, or the
+  `-generic`/`-nvidia` metas on Ubuntu/DGX): `--with-new-pkgs` PULLS A NEW KERNEL. On fv-ml1 tonight, 6.12.111 came in,
+  NVIDIA 580.65.06 DKMS FAILED to build for it, and dpkg was left half-configured. Had it booted, there would be no
+  GPU driver and every seat would be down. infra-ops purged it. Check `dkms status` for `nvidia` before patching; if it
+  is present, hold the kernel metas and park the kernel bump.
 - **Proxmox hosts:** hold `proxmox-kernel-* pve-kernel-*` and the ZFS stack. If those are the only pending packages,
  the host counts as current; park the kernel/ZFS bump.