nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 fails to build with kernel 6.1 in lunar

[Andrea Righi]

[Impact]

Trying to install nvidia-dkms-390 with linux 6.1 in lunar produces the following error:

  error: ‘struct acpi_device’ has no member named ‘children’

This is due to the kernel ABI changes in the ACPI layer (along with other dependencies on GPL-only symbols).

[Test case]

 $ sudo apt install nvidia-dkms-390

[Fix]

Support linux 6.1 ABI by disabling ACPI support with kernels >= 6.0, until nvidia releases a new driver with the proper support for 6.x kernels.

[Regression potential]

We may experience regressions (crashes, graphic issues or incorrect behaviors) with 6.1 kernels that are using nvidia-dkms-390.

[Andrea Righi (arighi)]

debdiff in attach disables ACPI support with kernel >= 6.0 and it allows to use this driver with the latest 6.1 kernel (this should be probably considered a temporary workaround, until nvidia provides an updated version of this driver with a proper fix).

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

I'm seeing the exact same error on 450-server, 470-server, 510-server and 515-server in the glibc autopkgtests

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-lunar/lunar/amd64/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server/20230217_153300_3ba46@/log.gz

There's also other failures on 470, 510 and 515 that might or might not be related?

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html#glibc

(you might have to scroll down a bit :) )

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

@Simon, those were old releases failing. I have just uploaded the correct releases, so that they are in sync with the other Ubuntu releases.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 - 390.157-0ubuntu3

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (390.157-0ubuntu3) lunar; urgency=medium

  * debian/templates/control.in:
    - Drop armhf and i386, except for the i386 compatibility libraries.
      The driver is no longer supported by NVIDIA, and this should
      solve the kernel build failures (LP: #2006695).

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:45:32 +0000