nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 ADT test failure with linux-hwe-edge 4.13.0-16.19~16.04.3

[Seth Forshee]

[Impact]

Currently the DKMS package fails to install in supported custom kernels that are based on 4.11 or 4.13. That includes the current 4.11 hwe-edge and the upcoming 4.13 hwe-edge kernels and some of the custom and cloud kernels as well.

[Test Case]

Install the DKMS package with the 4.13 hwe-edge kernel from -proposed. The package installation should proceed without any errors.

[Regression Potential]

Although new patches were added, the regression risk is very low since the new changes are conditionally compiled based on the kernel version.

Besides that the new package was tested with the following kernels in an amd64 environment:

- linux-generic 4.4
- linux-hwe 4.10
- linux-hwe-edge 4.11
- linux-hwe-edge 4.13 (from xenial-proposed)
- linux-azure 4.11
- linux-azure-edge 4.13 (which is in process of getting promoted to
  xenial-proposed)

[Original description]

Testing failed on:
    amd64: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-xenial/xenial/amd64/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/20171018_120651_877e3@/log.gz
    i386: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-xenial/xenial/i386/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/20171018_121553_877e3@/log.gz

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Seth, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This needs verification details.

[Marcelo Cerri (mhcerri)]

I have tested the version 304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 and the DKMS package successfully builds and loads on kernels 4.13, which was the issue reported in this bug.

I also have run the ADT tests for the following kernels to ensure there's no regressions:

- linux-generic 4.4
- linux-hwe 4.10
- linux-hwe-edge 4.11
- linux-hwe-edge 4.13
- linux-azure 4.11
- linux-azure-edge 4.13

[Audun Gangsto (audun-m)]

We're looking forward to getting this implemented, we have many workstations using this driver and we'd like to use the newer kernels.

Thank you for your good work!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 - 304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 (304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Support for kernel 4.11 and 4.12. (LP: #1724871)
    - debian/dkms/patches/buildfix_kernel_4.11.patch
    - debian/dkms/patches/buildfix_kernel_4.12.patch

 -- Marcelo Henrique Cerri <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:57:45 -0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.