With Fedora, I usually drop/boot into single user, and remove any package with NVIDIA in their name,
rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia | xargs dnf remove -y # rpm -qa return all locally installed packages this brings me to a clean state, which allow me to install the nvidia driver again. I think you should be able to do the same with Debian based distro, unless you used NVIDIA installer directly. -- Rabin On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 16:09, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > I am trying to recover from the bungled upgrade. > I found some answers in the Internet. For example, to use kernel 6.1.0- > 17 instead of 6.1.0-18 whose package version is 6.1.76-1) and to enable > bookworm-updates > ( > https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debian-12-and-nvidia-driver-nvidia-linux-x86-64-470-223-02-run/282473 > ). > > Now I am stuck with inability to uninstall xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 > (which I think was installed in one of failed attempts to recover) due > to error in its postrm script. > > Before doing crazy things such as forced uninstallation or doing > restore from backup which I took just before full upgrade, I'd like to > know how do people deal with such problems (in Debian and maybe also in > Ubuntu). > > Thanks, > --- Omer Zak > > (The above is less than total disaster because it happens in a laptop > which is not my primary work PC. I plan to upgrade my work PC only > after having successfully upgraded the laptop. I also kept enough > backups to have the option to perform a fresh reinstall.) > > > On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 15:27 +0200, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > > My experience with NVIDIA and DKMS is that with very recent Kernels > > the build can break, > > but I didn't have that for some time now (years). > > > > Also, I get my driver from my distro repo (Fedora), which reduce the > > chance of these issues. > > > > -- > > Rabin > > > > > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 12:01, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > > > I have upgraded a laptop from Debian 11 (Bullseye) to Debian 12 > > > (Bookworm) > > > > > > Now I am running into trouble when trying to build DKMS modules > > > needed > > > by nvidia-driver (the proprietary one) on the most recent kernel > > > version (I tried both 6.1.76-1 and 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1). > > > > > > There are some compile-time errors (different errors in different > > > attempts). > > > > > > Is there any information about known problems of getting Nvidia > > > software to interoperate with Debian 12 (Bookworm) working on up- > > > to- > > > date kernels? > -- > One cannot argue with a Bayesian filter. Peter Lorand Peres > My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with > which I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at https://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list -- linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > To unsubscribe send an email to linux-il-le...@cs.huji.ac.il >
_______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list -- linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il To unsubscribe send an email to linux-il-le...@cs.huji.ac.il