> Such work is not "necessary", as yours is really an unsupported corner > case. If you insist on keeping the nvidia driver installed and disabled, > against what we recommend, that is your problem.
And how was I supposed to know what you "recommend"? Back in the days when I installed Ubuntu on my machine, there was a friendly interface somewhere like "Software & Updates" > "Additional Drivers" or something, where I could choose to install and use the NVidia drivers. Then, when I saw they wouldn't work, I went to the same interface and chose not to use them. No warning appeared telling me that was "not recommended" or that I should uninstall the drivers. Should I have read the whole Ubuntu documentation, like "Let's see if what I just did through the standard interface is not recommended, and if they recommend doing something else like uninstalling the driver". It's not that I "insist" in keeping the driver installed and disabled. I did that ages ago and forgot about it. And I very much doubt it's that much of a "corner case". Right in this thread you have another user to whom the exact same thing happened. And even if we are few, we got in our situation by just using what then was the user interface (I mean, we didn't tinkle and mess around with stuff), so if we got to a situation that was not supported, something was wrong in Ubuntu in the first place, and if we got into a situation which was then supported and then stopped being, then it's Ubuntu responsibility to make sure that automatic updates take that into account and keep things working. And also, if a piece of software is designed in such a way that if you stop using it yoy have to uninstall it otherwise it may be harmful, it is badly designed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753 Title: Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty: Invalid Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty: Invalid Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm. The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel). Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS). For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1431753/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
