ubuntu-drivers: fails with the deprecated autoinstall argument

[errors.ubuntu.com bug bridge]

SRU Request:

[Test Case]

1) Call the deprecated "ubuntu-drivers autoinstall".

2) Enable the -proposed repository, and install the new ubuntu-drivers-common (0.8.4~0.20.04.3).

3) Check that the command does not crash ubuntu-drivers.

3) Restart your computer, and see if everything works correctly when
accessing the desktop.

[Regression Potential]
Low. The autoinstall argument is deprecated, and we only keep it for backward compatibility with ubiquity.

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The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding ubuntu-drivers-common. This problem was most recently seen with package version 1:0.8.5.2, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/76b7e8c5d279fa00ea08b6d04c1e459fec30e02b contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-drivers-common into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/1:0.8.4~0.20.04.3 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common - 1:0.8.5.3

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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.8.5.3) groovy; urgency=medium

  * ubuntu-drivers:
    - Fix failure when using the deprecated "autoinstall"
      argument (LP: #1889181).

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:55:27 +0200

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

"ubuntu-drivers autoinstall" succeeded without errors here, and it installed the correct driver (nvidia-driver-440).

:~$ apt-cache policy ubuntu-drivers-common
ubuntu-drivers-common:
  Installed: 1:0.8.4~0.20.04.3
  Candidate: 1:0.8.4~0.20.04.3
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.8.4~0.20.04.3 400
        400 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:0.8.4~0.20.04.2 500
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1:0.8.1 500
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

=== matching driver packages ===
nvidia-driver-435: installed: <none> available: 435.21-0ubuntu7 [distro] non-free modalias: pci:v000010DEd00001F11sv00001028sd000008EAbc03sc00i00 path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation model: TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile]
nvidia-driver-418-server: installed: <none> available: 418.152.00-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 [distro] non-free modalias: pci:v000010DEd00001F11sv00001028sd000008EAbc03sc00i00 path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation model: TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile]
nvidia-driver-440-server: installed: <none> available: 440.95.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 [distro] non-free modalias: pci:v000010DEd00001F11sv00001028sd000008EAbc03sc00i00 path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation model: TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile]
nvidia-driver-440: installed: 440.100-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 available: 440.100-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 (auto-install) [distro] non-free modalias: pci:v000010DEd00001F11sv00001028sd000008EAbc03sc00i00 path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation model: TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile]

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-drivers-common has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common - 1:0.8.4~0.20.04.3

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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.8.4~0.20.04.3) focal; urgency=medium

  * ubuntu-drivers:
    - Fix failure when using the deprecated "autoinstall"
      argument (LP: #1889181).

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 10:42:55 +0200