Thanks for the debugging details, retitling and changing the component
according
** Package changed: software-properties (Ubuntu) => ubuntu-drivers-
common (Ubuntu)
** Summary changed:
- I can select the Xorg Nouveau server, but not click on "apply"
+ kerneldetection except when custom kernel
confirming my guess:
this error occurs when having somehow "exotic" linux-image-* package
names - even thoug dpkg-deb can build them and dpkg is installing them
without compaints, they lead to an error here.
A custom built mainline kernel without special naming can be installed
without
OK, tracking down this stacktrace I found the problem:
it appears that kerneldetection.py fails when I have a custom built mainline
package installed.
that would make this a bug in "ubuntu-drivers-common"
It appears to be irrelevant that I am *running* the standard Ubuntu
generic kernel - the
Another additional info:
I checked if I can do it on the commandline, but I get a Python
stacktrace instead:
# ubuntu-drivers list
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers", line 513, in
greet()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1128, in
Another thing i just tried:
I thought *maybe* this problem is because I was running a custom built
mainline kernel and the drivers GUI doesnt want to change a system with
non-original Ubuntu kernel, but I just rebooted in the standard generic
kernel and the problem persists.
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oh and forgot to say: actiually the same goes for all other nvidia
driver versions that are shown in the list - its about 10 of them.
Whatever i select, the apply button is inactive.
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