I think that is right. It was even more catastrophic. The new kernel was switched to and then the system would not boot. I had to manually select boot from the pervious kernel to get the system up. Then I removed the upgrade manually, so it would not boot into the fowled kernel subsequently.
Detecting the partial installation failure and not updating the kernel version is the better answer, I would agree. Ken Witt President | Aabren Group 720.934.8365 [https://www.aabren.com/aabren-return-addr.png]<https://www.aabren.com> On 12/17/25 10:33, Kyle Loveless wrote: Just some thoughts from my de-duped bug - separate from what is actually causing this issue (which is important to fix), but about the process of "new kernel breaks next boot": My understanding of how things work (which may very well be wrong :)): 1. A new (HWE) kernel is available. 2. It is installed, including the nvidia drivers for it. 3. During that installation something goes wrong (in this case, not having that latest version of a couple packages, fine, it happens) 4. UEFI/Bootloader is still updated (or automatically uses the latest) - so even though there was a partial installation failure, we switch to that new kernel next time giving a quite poor user experience (i.e. one low-resolution monitor) So my suggestion is a step 3, _if_ something noticeable goes wrong, then the kernel version is not updated - and potentially something is told to the user or reported centrally. Alternatively, if that is somehow not possible, it would seem nice that when booting into a fairly broken kernel that it could tell the user "something critical did not load, do you want the previous version". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2115148 Title: nvidia driver error: cannot open linker script file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules/+bug/2115148/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
