I spent some time going through posts and trying various things. The best I can reckon from all information gathered so far is something about the upgrade process from 14.04 to 16.04 trips things up for the Nvidia driver build. If Ubuntu 16.04 is installed from scratch, people report it works, but the part of it not working during / after an upgrade from a previous Ubuntu release is consistent. The thing is I have a system that has so much going on on it that starting over would be a huge time kill, so solving this would probably take less time even if it is a bit involved to figure out. Also if it is working on some installations and not others depending on how Ubuntu was installed, that points to a possible issue on the open source side tripping up things on the Nvidia side of the fence. (The notion here clean install of open source 16.04 equals proper environment for Nvidia driver to build while something off kilter about the Ubuntu upgrade process equals broken environment for the Nvidia driver to try to build in. Of course I also would not discount the notion that everything from each team runs to their internally defined spec, but two teams had two different ideas on the details of what is a valid thing to do / expect from the other.)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643345 Title: nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1: nvidia-367 kernel module failed to build [Makefile:81: recipe for target 'modules' failed] Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The default selected nvidia driver 367 does not work in Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. Hangs on build. Ran killall make in order to get updates to complete. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: nvidia-367 (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 DKMSKernelVersion: 4.4.0-45-generic Date: Sun Nov 20 08:45:49 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-28 (784 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) PackageVersion: 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1 apt 1.2.15 SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 Title: nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu0.16.04.1: nvidia-367 kernel module failed to build UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-10-20 (31 days ago) modified.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.nvidia-367_hybrid.conf: [deleted] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-367/+bug/1643345/+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
