Continuing on in my saga of Firefox occasionally freezing my GNOME
session... last week I had one occur in the middle of a particularly
lengthy set of edits to a text file, and I decided to 1) switch away
from Firefox for awhile, to see if that reduced the freezes, and 2) to
dig into Daniel's suggestion to "full purge of the existing Nvidia
driver and reinstall it".
I looked for up-to-date instructions on that and did not find anything
trustworthy. I tried:
sudo ubuntu-drivers install
which reported a bunch of dependency conflicts, so I went looking for
those. I found I had bits of the 535 driver installed as well as two
version of the 570 driver, so I used "apt purge" to get rid of those.
Still no luck with "ubuntu-drivers install", even after a reboot.
Finally, I ran
sudo apt upgrade -f
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt autoremove
then
sudo ubuntu-drivers install
which ran successfully!
After a reboot, now Software & Updates > Additional Drivers reports that
I am using the
NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage from nvidia-driver-570-open
(proprietary, tested)
So it seems my configuration is no longer borked. I may give Firefox
another go but for now I'm going to stick with Opera to see if any other
freezes occur.
Thanks Daniel. I hope this info might be useful to anyone else
struggling with this.
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Nvidia drivers fail to install libnvidia-egl-wayland1, resulting in
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