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When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... Stopping nvidia-persistenced nvidia-persistenced: no process found Done. (snip) Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) INFO:Enable nvidia-340 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... Building for 4.15.0-70-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and- then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with $CURRENT_KERNEL then `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-340` works as expected. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete ** Description changed: - Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree + Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... Stopping nvidia-persistenced nvidia-persistenced: no process found Done. - Removing all DKMS Modules - Done. - Stopping previous nvidia-persistenced - nvidia-persistenced: no process found - Done. - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libEGL.so to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 - diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 - Unpacking nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) over (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... + (snip) Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) INFO:Enable nvidia-340 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... Building for 4.15.0-70-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and- then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with $CURRENT_KERNEL `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-384` works as expected. ** Description changed: Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: - philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 - Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree - Reading state information... Done - 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. - Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. - After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. - (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) - Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... - Stopping nvidia-persistenced - nvidia-persistenced: no process found - Done. - (snip) - Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... - dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty - dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty - update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) - INFO:Enable nvidia-340 - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude - Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... - Building for 4.15.0-70-generic - Building for architecture x86_64 - Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic - Done. + philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 + Reading package lists... Done + Building dependency tree + Reading state information... Done + 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. + Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. + After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. + (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) + Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... + Stopping nvidia-persistenced + nvidia-persistenced: no process found + Done. + (snip) + Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... + dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty + dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty + update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) + INFO:Enable nvidia-340 + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude + Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... + Building for 4.15.0-70-generic + Building for architecture x86_64 + Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic + Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and- then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with $CURRENT_KERNEL `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-384` works as expected. ** Description changed: Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: - philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 - Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree - Reading state information... Done - 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. - Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. - After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. - (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) - Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... - Stopping nvidia-persistenced - nvidia-persistenced: no process found - Done. - (snip) - Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... - dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty - dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty - update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) - INFO:Enable nvidia-340 - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude - Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... - Building for 4.15.0-70-generic - Building for architecture x86_64 - Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic - Done. + philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 + Reading package lists... Done + Building dependency tree + Reading state information... Done + 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. + Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. + After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. + (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) + Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... + Stopping nvidia-persistenced + nvidia-persistenced: no process found + Done. + (snip) + Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... + dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty + dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty + update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) + INFO:Enable nvidia-340 + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude + Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... + Building for 4.15.0-70-generic + Building for architecture x86_64 + Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic + Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and- then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with $CURRENT_KERNEL `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-384` works as expected. ** Description changed: Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: - philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 - Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree - Reading state information... Done - 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. - Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. - After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. - (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) - Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... - Stopping nvidia-persistenced - nvidia-persistenced: no process found - Done. - (snip) - Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... - dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty - dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty - update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) - INFO:Enable nvidia-340 - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad - DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude - Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... - Building for 4.15.0-70-generic - Building for architecture x86_64 - Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic - Done. + philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 + Reading package lists... Done + Building dependency tree + Reading state information... Done + 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. + Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. + After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. + (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) + Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... + Stopping nvidia-persistenced + nvidia-persistenced: no process found + Done. + (snip) + Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... + dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty + dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty + update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) + INFO:Enable nvidia-340 + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad + DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude + Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... + Building for 4.15.0-70-generic + Building for architecture x86_64 + Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic + Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and- then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with $CURRENT_KERNEL `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-384` works as expected. ** Description changed: Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... Stopping nvidia-persistenced nvidia-persistenced: no process found Done. (snip) Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) INFO:Enable nvidia-340 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... Building for 4.15.0-70-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and- then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with - $CURRENT_KERNEL `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-384` works as expected. + $CURRENT_KERNEL then `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-384` works as expected. ** Description changed: Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... Stopping nvidia-persistenced nvidia-persistenced: no process found Done. (snip) Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) INFO:Enable nvidia-340 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... Building for 4.15.0-70-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and- then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with - $CURRENT_KERNEL then `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-384` works as expected. + $CURRENT_KERNEL then `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-340` works as expected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853977 Title: nvidia-340 dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hello, When installing `nvidia-340` there is an error is the postinst script: philippe@pv-desktop:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-340 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 7 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/51.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 309892 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-340_340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4_amd64.deb ... Stopping nvidia-persistenced nvidia-persistenced: no process found Done. (snip) Setting up nvidia-340 (340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) ... dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) INFO:Enable nvidia-340 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude Loading new nvidia-340-340.107 DKMS files... Building for 4.15.0-70-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.15.0-70-generic Done. The comment at https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling- and-then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord tells us that /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-340.postinst has a typo: replace $KERNELS with $CURRENT_KERNEL then `dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-340` works as expected. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1853977/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
