Steam suggested an upgrade of the Nvidia experimental driver to version 310, and that caused problems
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-settings-experimental-310 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The driver was updated, but the kernel module expected the 304 version. I had to remove the 310 packages in order to restore access to the Ubuntu Desktop
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nvidia-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-43-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
AptOrdering:
nvidia-
nvidia-
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 16 10:07:51 2013
DistributionCha
# This is a distribution channel descriptor
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canonical-
DpkgTerminalLog:
Unpacking nvidia-
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
DuplicateSignature:
Unpacking nvidia-
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120703-15:08
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nvidia-
Title: package nvidia-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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