nvidia-331-updates 331.113-0ubuntu0.0.4: nvidia-331-updates kernel module failed to build

[Tristan Schmelcher]

I was trying to upgrade from nvidia-304 to nvidia-331-updates on Trusty. Along the way I hit various build failures. Initially I tried to install it for the Vivid HWE kernel, but then I gave up on that kernel and uninstalled it when I encountered bug 1409190. Then I tried to install it for just the latest Trusty kernel, where I hit bug 1268257. Eventually I got it working with the workaround in that bug.

Apport generated problem reports for every build failure and deduped all of them except this one.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nvidia-331-updates
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-57.95-generic 3.13.11-ckt21
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-57-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 3.19.0-22-generic
Date: Sun Jul 12 15:35:07 2015
DuplicateSignature: dkms:nvidia-331-updates:331.113-0ubuntu0.0.4:/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-331-updates/331.113/build/nv.c:2027:29: error: ‘struct file’ has no member named ‘f_dentry’
PackageVersion: 331.113-0ubuntu0.0.4
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates
Title: nvidia-331-updates 331.113-0ubuntu0.0.4: nvidia-331-updates kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-12-24 (200 days ago)

[Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher)]

And now that I can see the build log, I can see that this is a dupe too. :)