Please SRU nvidia-modprobe 460.32.03-1 (multiverse) from hirsute

[Erich Eickmeyer]

[Impact]

 * Users of nvidia-smi in nvidia-utils-460 are running across this issue:

/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe: unrecognized option: "-s"

 * At this point, nvidia-smi is not returning the desired output.

 * Description of nvidia-smi follows:

NVIDIA System Management Interface -- v460.32.03

NVSMI provides monitoring information for Tesla and select Quadro devices.
The data is presented in either a plain text or an XML format, via stdout or a file.
NVSMI also provides several management operations for changing the device state.

Note that the functionality of NVSMI is exposed through the NVML C-based
library. See the NVIDIA developer website for more information about NVML.
Python wrappers to NVML are also available. The output of NVSMI is
not guaranteed to be backwards compatible; NVML and the bindings are backwards
compatible.

http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-management-library-nvml/
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nvidia-ml-py/
Supported products:
- Full Support
    - All Tesla products, starting with the Kepler architecture
    - All Quadro products, starting with the Kepler architecture
    - All GRID products, starting with the Kepler architecture
    - GeForce Titan products, starting with the Kepler architecture
- Limited Support
    - All Geforce products, starting with the Kepler architecture

[Test Case]

 * Install nvidia-utils-460 from the archive.

 * Attempt to run nvidia-smi.

 * Output reports error mentioned above, nvidia-modprobe is not working as expected.

[Where problems could occur]

 * This may or may not affect users of older Nvidia cards. Backporting nvidia-modprobe on a RTX-2070 system running Focal returns desired results.

[Other Info]

 * I would be open to questions from the Kernel team for this fix.

Original bug report (originally a backport request) follows:

Please backport nvidia-modprobe 460.32.03-1 (multiverse) from hirsute to focal, groovy.

Reason for the backport:
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Currently, nvidia-smi in nvidia-utils-460 calls "nvidia-modprobe -s", but the following error occurs:

/usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe: unrecognized option: "-s"

At this point, nvidia-smi is not returning the desired output.

Testing:
========
Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.

You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s hirsute -d focal nvidia-modprobe
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s hirsute -d groovy nvidia-modprobe

Built in https://launchpad.net/~eeickmeyer/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

* focal:
[!] Package builds without modification
    - Requires dropping debhelper-compat to 12 and Standards-Version to 4.5.0. This is trivial.
[X] nvidia-modprobe-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs
[X] nvidia-modprobe installs cleanly and runs
* groovy:
[X] Package builds without modification
[X] nvidia-modprobe-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs
[X] nvidia-modprobe installs cleanly and runs

No reverse dependencies

[Thomas Ward (teward)]

If the intent here is to fix a *bug*, then this should be SRU'd and handled by the relevant kernel / packaging teams as this is Multiverse.

Backports aren't how you get bugs fixed in older releases.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I think they basically only add new commands in newer version, so a backporting this wholesale as an SRU makes sense.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Erich, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-modprobe into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-modprobe/460.32.03-0ubuntu20.10.1 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-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. 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.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Erich, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-modprobe into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-modprobe/460.32.03-0ubuntu20.04.1 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.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Confirmed in both Groovy and Focal, this package does indeed return the correct information:

Tue Feb 16 14:28:54 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.32.03 Driver Version: 460.32.03 CUDA Version: 11.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce RTX 207... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 62C P3 26W / N/A | 1514MiB / 7982MiB | 30% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2118 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 585MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2796 G kded5 16MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3224 G ...akonadi_archivemail_agent 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3229 G ...i_googlecalendar_resource 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3230 G ...i_googlecalendar_resource 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3234 G ...bin/akonadi_imap_resource 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3235 G ...bin/akonadi_imap_resource 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3236 G ...bin/akonadi_imap_resource 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3250 G .../akonadi_mailfilter_agent 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3265 G ...n/akonadi_sendlater_agent 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3267 G ...nadi_unifiedmailbox_agent 20MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 10102 G /usr/bin/kmail 44MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 271335 G /usr/bin/krunner 13MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 291726 G ...gAAAAAAAAA --shared-files 273MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 292863 G ...AAAAAAAA== --shared-files 77MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 369831 G /usr/bin/plasmashell 334MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 369930 G /usr/bin/kwin 75MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-modprobe - 460.32.03-0ubuntu20.10.1

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nvidia-modprobe (460.32.03-0ubuntu20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Fix for issues affecting nvidia-utils-460 (LP: #1915534)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:19:36 -0800

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for nvidia-modprobe 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 nvidia-modprobe - 460.32.03-0ubuntu20.04.1

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nvidia-modprobe (460.32.03-0ubuntu20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Fix for issues affecting nvidia-utils-460 (LP: #1915534)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:19:36 -0800