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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates package

nvidia-173-updates (not installed): nvidia-173-updates kernel module failed to build

Bug #1385796 reported by Brian Ferguson on 2014-10-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #576648: package nvidia-* failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-* kernel module failed to build (Unable to determine the target kernel version.). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Error reported suring install. Now what do I do? Video card is GeForce 5200. Ubuntu is 12.04 LTS. I would like to run Steam.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nvidia-173-updates 173.14.35-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57~precise1-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.13.0-32-generic
Date: Sat Oct 25 20:53:14 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20140807.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageVersion: (not installed)
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates
Title: nvidia-173-updates (not installed): nvidia-173-updates kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Brian Ferguson (briannsl) wrote on 2014-10-26:

DKMSBuildLog.txt Edit (981 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (953 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2014-10-26

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2014-10-29:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 576648, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.