This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common -
1:0.9.7.6ubuntu3.2
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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.9.7.6ubuntu3.2) noble; urgency=medium
[Alessandro Astone]
* Improve SimpleDRM+NVIDIA fix across kernel versions (LP: #2083329)
[ Kuba Pawlak ]
* fix searching for lrm drivers matching linux-image-virtual (LP: #2085962)
* fix install --gpgpu handling (LP: #2083709)
* Add --include-dkms option to listing drivers (LP: #2090924)
* Sort the output list of matching nvidia drivers (LP: #2081970)
* NVIDIA 560 release should suggest -open variant first (LP: #2081967)
[ Dann Frazier]
* Add more useful help text for --gpgpu See LP: #2081881
-- Kuba Pawlak <kuba.paw...@canonical.com> Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:40:29
+0100
** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Noble)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2085962
Title:
fix searching for lrm drivers matching linux-image-virtual
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common source package in Jammy:
New
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common source package in Noble:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common source package in Oracular:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common source package in Plucky:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
linux-image-virtual is a metapackage that does not follow the common kernel
naming scheme. It is used to install generic kernels without installing
modules-extra. This was done to reduce a footprint of a VM that usually does
not have hardware passed through to it. Unfortunately There is no
'linux-modules-nvidia-virtual' created for that flavour so there is no match
when ubuntu-drivers tries to find the precompiled drivers. It is possible to
install 'linux-modules-nvidia-generic', since they match the kernel packages
pulled in by linux-image-virtual.
fix the issue by treating 'virtual' as 'generic'
install with --gpgpu is broken and no longer installs linux-modules-
nvidia, only nvidia-driver-no-dkms-<series>. This makes the system
unusable as the actual kernel module is not present but headless-no-
dkms package will satisfy ubuntu-driver's dependency search so
subsequent calls to install a driver will do nothing.
[ Steps to reproduce ]
1. deploy a VM with 'linux-image-virtual'
2. call 'ubuntu-drivers list'
2. observe the list of packages that is proposed
[ Test plan ]
1. deploy a VM with 'linux-image-virtual'
2. Install ubuntu-drivers on a machine with a modern NVIDIA card
3. Call 'ubuntu-drivers list'
[ Expected result ]
the list should look like this:
> nvidia-driver-550-server, (kernel modules provided by
linux-modules-nvidia-550-server-generic)
where the part in brackets is referencing 'linux-modules-nvidia' and not
'nvidia-dkms-550-server'
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