nvidia-kernel-source-435 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2: nvidia kernel module failed to build

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt]]

After a "usual" upgrade, my system did not give any sign of life on the monitor. I tried to boot an older kernel, it worked. Then I discovered, that the problem that nvidia drivers cannot be built against kernel linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic, which could be the problem.

from /var/crash/nvidia-kernel-source-435.0.crash :

 /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:662:44: error: ‘DRIVER_PRIME’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘DRIVER_PCI_DMA’?
      .driver_features = DRIVER_GEM | DRIVER_PRIME | DRIVER_RENDER,
                                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
                                             DRIVER_PCI_DMA
 scripts/Makefile.build:273: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o' failed
 make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o] Error 1
 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    ./tools/objtool/objtool check --module --retpoline --uaccess /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm.o
    ./tools/objtool/objtool check --module --retpoline --uaccess /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_range_group_tree_test.o
    ./tools/objtool/objtool check --module --retpoline --uaccess /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-utils.o
    ./tools/objtool/objtool check --module --retpoline --uaccess /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.o
    ./tools/objtool/objtool check --module --retpoline --uaccess /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-gem.o
    ./tools/objtool/objtool check --module --retpoline --uaccess /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-connector.o
    ./tools/objtool/objtool check --module --retpoline --uaccess /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-crtc.o
 Makefile:1731: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build' failed
 make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build] Error 2
 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic'
 Makefile:81: recipe for target 'modules' failed
 make: *** [modules] Error 2
DKMSKernelVersion: 5.4.0-42-generic
Date: Wed Jul 22 08:08:55 2020
DuplicateSignature: dkms:nvidia-kernel-source-435:435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2:/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:662:44: error: ‘DRIVER_PRIME’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘DRIVER_PCI_DMA’?
Package: nvidia-kernel-source-435 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
PackageVersion: 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-435
Title: nvidia-kernel-source-435 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2: nvidia kernel module failed to build

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: nvidia-kernel-source-435 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-62.56~18.04.1-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-62-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.15
Architecture: amd64
DKMSKernelVersion: 5.4.0-42-generic
Date: Wed Jul 22 08:08:55 2020
Dependencies:

DuplicateSignature: dkms:nvidia-kernel-source-435:435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2:/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:662:44: error: ‘DRIVER_PRIME’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘DRIVER_PCI_DMA’?
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-06 (198 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
PackageVersion: 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.9, python3-minimal, 3.6.7-1~18.04
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.17, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.3
 apt 1.6.12ubuntu0.1
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-435
Title: nvidia-kernel-source-435 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2: nvidia kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mark Jeronimus (mark-jeronimus)]

I've not updated and got this error at random while playing a 3D game. (Never had this crash before in the 6 months I've been using this driver)

[Chris Kontomitros (ckonto)]

I updated yesterday and I encounter the same crash. The result is a login loop problem in my main user and a fixed display resolution problem. Can you recommend a temporary fix ?

Last part of nvidia-kernel-source-435.0.crash

/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-helper.c
 /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:662:44: error: ‘DRIVER_PRIME’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘DRIVER_PCI_DMA’?
      .driver_features = DRIVER_GEM | DRIVER_PRIME | DRIVER_RENDER,
                                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~
                                             DRIVER_PCI_DMA
   cc -Wp,-MD,/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/.nv-pci-table.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/include -I./arch/x86/include -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -Iubuntu/include -include ./include/linux/compiler_types.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -DCONFIG_X86_X32_ABI -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SSSE3=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX512=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA1_NI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA256_NI=1 -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern -mindirect-branch-register -fno-jump-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wno-frame-address -Wno-format-truncation -Wno-format-overflow -O2 --param=allow-store-data-races=0 -Wframe-larger-than=1024 -fstack-protector-strong -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-unused-const-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fno-var-tracking-assignments -pg -mrecord-mcount -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wvla -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overflow -Wno-restrict -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -fno-strict-overflow -fno-merge-all-constants -fmerge-constants -fno-stack-check -fconserve-stack -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -Werror=designated-init -I/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/common/inc -I/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build -Wall -MD -Wno-cast-qual -Wno-error -Wno-format-extra-args -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNVRM -DNV_VERSION_STRING=\"435.21\" -Wno-unused-function -Wuninitialized -fno-strict-aliasing -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -DNV_UVM_ENABLE -Werror=undef -DNV_SPECTRE_V2=0 -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='"nv_pci_table"' -DKBUILD_MODNAME='"nvidia_drm"' -c -o /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nv-pci-table.o /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nv-pci-table.c
 scripts/Makefile.build:273: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o' failed
 make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-d...

[mkurz (matthias.kurz)]

Same here, appeared today after system update.

[Alex Cavanaugh (ajcav2)]

Had the exact same error today. Was able to solve it via:
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
then rebooting.

[Maximilian Borm (bormolino)]

I got this error on the 5.4.0-42-gerneric Kernel:

DKMS make.log for nvidia-435.21 for kernel 5.4.0-42-generic (x86_64)
So 26. Jul 12:20:06 CEST 2020
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic“ wird betreten
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo >&2; \
echo >&2 " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo >&2 " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo >&2 ; \
/bin/false)
make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build \
single-build= \
need-builtin=1 need-modorder=1
  ln -sf /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia/nv-kernel.o_binary /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia/nv-kernel.o
  ln -sf /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-kernel.o_binary /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-kernel.o
{ echo /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia.ko; echo /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-uvm.ko; echo /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-modeset.ko; echo /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/nvidia-drm.ko; :; } \
| awk '!x[$0]++' - > /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/435.21/build/modules.order

[mkurz (matthias.kurz)]

@bormolino I had exactly the same problem like you (also using the Nvidia 435 driver). For me it seemed strange because the folder /usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic DOES exist and also DOES contain both files include/generated/autoconf.h and include/config/auto.conf...
Not sure why the error messages says these files can't be found. Do these files exist on your machine?
Anyway, what solved my problem in the end was to upgrade to the latest nvidia driver 440 (I upgraded via the "Software & Updates" UI (under "Additional Drivers") (I guess it just installs the package nvidia-driver-440)
I would guess what also would have solved the problem is to re-install the 435 driver (nvidia-driver-435)

[Mitch Claborn (mitch-news)]

Similar symptoms. Upgrading to the 440 driver fixed it for me.

[Maximilian Borm (bormolino)]

@mkurz Yes, these files also exists on my machine. I now will try to update to 440 like the others.

[Maximilian Borm (bormolino)]

Nope, 440 doesn't work on my machine. OpenCL and CUDA not working. I'm back to Kernel 4.15.0-112-generic which works perfect with nvidia-435

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

It seems update 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 of nvidia-kernel-source-435 fixed the problem for me, at least!