Package: nvidia-modprobe Version: 550.78-1 Severity: normal I do not think I have observed it before, and could not search anything up, so decided to file. Might relate more to other nvidia* packages. During installation of nvidia from experimental, I spotted a number of repeated error messages from libkmod, presumably during initrd img generation:
Setting up linux-image-6.12.17-amd64 (6.12.17-1) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.17-amd64 libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-options.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-options.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-options.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-options.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf libkmod: ERROR: conf_files_filter_out: Cannot stat directory entry: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub: Generating grub configuration file ... likely due to the fact that they are the (only) symlinks in that folder: ❯ ls -l /etc/modprobe.d/ total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Feb 16 2023 amd64-microcode-blacklist.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 18 2020 deepin-screen-recorder.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Jan 31 2023 dkms.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Feb 16 2023 intel-microcode-blacklist.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Mar 8 2009 libpisock9.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379 Feb 24 2023 mdadm.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 Feb 26 2023 nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf -> /etc/alternatives/glx--nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 26 2023 nvidia-options.conf -> /etc/alternatives/nvidia--nvidia-options.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Feb 26 2023 nvidia.conf -> /etc/alternatives/glx--nvidia-modprobe.conf and they are not broken: ❯ ls -Ll /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98 Feb 26 2023 /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 478 Nov 15 2023 /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-options.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118 Feb 26 2023 /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf I am yet to reboot and discover if there are any negative effects as a result . -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental'), (100, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'stable-security'), (100, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.12-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages nvidia-modprobe depends on: ii libc6 2.41-4 nvidia-modprobe recommends no packages. nvidia-modprobe suggests no packages. -- no debconf information