nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.1: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build

[Jonners59]

Occured during kernel update...

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.19.0-031900rc2-generic
Date: Tue Dec 30 17:49:41 2014
DuplicateSignature: dkms:nvidia-331:331.113-0ubuntu0.1:/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-331/331.113/build/nv.c:2027:29: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
PackageVersion: 331.113-0ubuntu0.1
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331
Title: nvidia-331 331.113-0ubuntu0.1: nvidia-331 kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-12-14 (16 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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 1268257, 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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas Antepoth (ta-ubuntu-antepoth)]

This bug is no duplicate because it affects Kernel 3.19.0-031900rc2-generic and nvidia whereas the duplicate one affects 3.13.0-2-generic and is a completely different error message.

Here:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-331/331.113/build/nv.c:2027:29: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’

The workaround of "dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-331 nvidia-331-uvm" would not work here on this bug because the sourcecode of nv.c has to be patched.

But if it is supposed to mix bugs together into one big ticket - why not making a "generic linux bug" ticket?

[Thomas Antepoth (ta-ubuntu-antepoth)]

Technically this bugreport is no duplicate because #1406604 was earlier posted but the #1409190 is about the same issue and has already fixes.