Cannot open nvidia-settings on pc with a hybrid device (or use prime-select), missing python
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
nvidia-prime (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Alberto Milone |
Bug Description
You would see -
$ nvidia-settings
** Message: PRIME: Requires offloading
** Message: PRIME: is it supported? yes
** (nvidia-
Trace/breakpoint trap
Additionally if trying to run prime-select you'd see -
sudo: unable to execute /usr/bin/
One would need to go
python3 /usr/bin/
This is because the python package has been removed from image & isn't installed by either nvidia-settings or nvidia-prime.
Please adjust this packages to either use python3 or dep to python
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: nvidia-settings 367.35-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 4 17:16:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-04 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20170929)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
summary: |
Cannot open nvidia-settings on pc with a hybrid device (or use prime- - select + select), missing python |
Changed in nvidia-prime (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
importance: | Undecided → High |
no longer affects: | nvidia-settings (Ubuntu) |
Changed in nvidia-prime (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in nvidia-prime (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
going to mark invalid, how this install, (Beta amd64 (20170929) ended up without python-minimal is unknown. upgrades.
Could have been from bad behavior from unattended-
For historical info it had been removed as seen here when I installed python
Commit Log for Wed Oct 4 17:19:48 2017
Installed the following packages:
libpython-stdlib (2.7.14-2ubuntu1)
python (2.7.14-2ubuntu1)
python-minimal (2.7.14-2ubuntu1)
python2.7 (2.7.14-2ubuntu2)
python2.7-minimal (2.7.14-2ubuntu2)