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apport-collect 1853977 and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'. If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'. This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853977 Title: nvidia-340 dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... Stopping nvidia-persistenced nvidia-persistenced: no process found Done. (snip) Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) INFO:Enable nvidia-340 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... Building for 4.15.0-70-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling- and-then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with $CURRENT_KERNEL then `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-340` works as expected. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1853977/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp