Mike Stroyan's analysis is correct. This is not a bug in nvidia-common, it's a bug in dkms for outputting to stdout.
Standard Ubuntu kernel packages don't load the debconf confmodule, but custom packages built with make-kpkg do, and this is perfectly legitimate. Anything called from a maintainer script that has debconf loaded should not be outputting to stdout. For that matter, Ubuntu Policy has this to say about maintainer script output in general: 3.9. Maintainer Scripts ----------------------- The package installation scripts should avoid producing output which is unnecessary for the user to see and should rely on `dpkg' to stave off boredom on the part of a user installing many packages. This means, amongst other things, using the `--quiet' option on `install-info'. dkms really needs to be fixed to not output on stdout. If output is needed, it should use stderr - but output really should not be needed at all except in the case of errors. ** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Triaged -- dkms - error when installing custom kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292606 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs