Nvidia gpu-operator fails to build kernel in OCP 4.6 and later

Issue

• gpu-operator fails to start, and the pods show status as follows.

  $ oc get pods -n gpu-operator-resources
  NAME                                       READY   STATUS                 RESTARTS   AGE
  nvidia-container-toolkit-daemonset-zj44k   1/1     Running                0          99m
  nvidia-driver-daemonset-nsz7k              0/1     CrashLoopBackOff       23         99m
  nvidia-driver-validation                   0/1     CreateContainerError   0          98m
  

• Logs show dnf commands failing as follows.

  $ oc logs nvidia-driver-daemonset-nsz7k -n gpu-operator-resources
  
  ...
  Installing elfutils...
  + dnf install -q -y elfutils-libelf.x86_64 elfutils-libelf-devel.x86_64
  Error: Unable to find a match: elfutils-libelf-devel.x86_64
  ...
  + echo 'Stopping NVIDIA persistence daemon...'
  Stopping NVIDIA persistence daemon...
  + '[' -f /var/run/nvidia-persistenced/nvidia-persistenced.pid ']'
  Unloading NVIDIA driver kernel modules...        
  + echo 'Unloading NVIDIA driver kernel modules...'
  ...
  Unmounting NVIDIA driver rootfs...