Silvano (spaccabyte), if you never added that PPA (and the majority of
Ubuntu users will not have) then there is nothing to remove. In that
case, you probably have the "standard" gcc and could just follow the
instructions at
Those for whom it didn't work, see post #7 at
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2385621=13742673#post13742673
- it sounds like maybe you have to remove four items, not just two, but
I'm not sure. If that works for anyone please let us know.
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John (earthspike), you said your version is
gcc-4.8.real (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4) 4.8.4
but when I run gcc --version I get just
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4) 4.8.4
The version number appears to be the same but instead of gcc-4.8.real I
only see gcc. Is that a significant
Tim Habigt wrote in #30:
> Yes, I also got the gcc update after the kernel update. With the new
gcc, I could fix the Nvidia kernel module.
> Here's how:
> # Show the current vermagic string of the kernel module
> modinfo nvidia-384 -k 4.4.0-116-generic
> # It will probably say:
> # vermagic:
Kaan Akşit: You are going down the same rabbit hole that I did and it
won't work, and will just mess up your system. The problem is not the
nVidia driver, it's the kernel upgrade. Go to the thread at
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2385621=13742281#post13742281
and you will see what
Bill Miller, I can ssh into the system and install packages - apt-get
still works, etc. Right now the only thing I can't do is get into the
desktop; it shows a login screen but won't accept my password (even
though my password works fine in ssh). I think it is because when I
tried to install the
Bo9b Miller, how do I install "-112"? I am afraid I have already dug
myself into so deep a hole I don't want to make any more mistakes, and I
have no idea what you mean by "-112". Please explain, or point me to a
page that does.
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Bob Miller, how do I install "-112"? I am afraid I have already dug
myself into so deep a hole I don't want to make any more mistakes, and I
have no idea what you mean by "-112". Please explain, or point me to a
page that does.
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One more to report, this one got my son's computer, an older Asrock
machine. Uninstalling the nVidia drivers allowed booting into the
desktop but then when none of the available nVidia drivers worked we
made the mistake of trying to install the Linux driver from nVidia's
site. Apparently
