"To be fair it is an annoying issue but not one that is so fatal one would not be able to recover a system."
It leaves the system not working. That's is more than just annoying. Also, I actually did re-install the operating system at least once because of this bug to try to get this PC working again. I actually spent about three days struggling with driver versions and trying to work out what the real problem was. I was also swopping out video cards to see if that helped. Any sane person would have gone out and bought a Windows licence and installed that instead. "By now I just made it a habit of doing the following…" Sadly, those instructions are the sort of reason people say Linux is not ready for the mainstream. How do I tell Auntie Margaret over the phone she just needs to "sudo dkms install -m <module> -v <module version> -k <kernel version>" ? It might be trivial to an operating systems programmer with a computer science degree. But some of us want to USE Ubuntu-based operating systems for work purposes, not for working on. I am sorry to add a whinge to this saga, but to imply it's just a nuisance and there's an easy workaround is not how it feels to some of the user community. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753 Title: Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty: Confirmed Bug description: Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm. The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel). Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS). For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1431753/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
