warnings in terminal with software-properties-gtk

[Brian Murray]

When running software-properties-gtk and switching to the "Additional Drivers" tab I saw the following warnings in my terminal:

 $ software-properties-gtk
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.99.39
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-4.4-generic 6.5.0
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-4-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia zfs
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Sep 21 11:49:24 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-10 (1868 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitecture: all
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-09-06 (15 days ago)

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This is from ubuntu-drivers-common:

UbuntuDrivers/detect.py
452: out = subprocess.check_output(['udevadm', 'hwdb', '--test=' + alias],
455: logging.debug('_get_db_name(%s, %s): udevadm hwdb failed: %s', syspath, alias, str(e))

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[mrvst (maravento)]

confirmed ubuntu 24.02

[Ubfan (ubfan1)]

Booting the just released ISO of Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop, ubuntu-drivers list and the Software & Updates/Additional Drivers tab are missing the Nvidia drivers 545 and 550, but the above warning(error?) is repeated 6 times. The apt pkgnames will list the 545 and 550 drivers. sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550 will have the lsmod show nvidia in the modules list, but nvidia-settings does not show the expected output for an nvidia driver. Software & updates/Additional will show nouveau running, no 545 or 550, and all the nvidia drivers greyed out.

[food-ray (food-ray)]

Initially, the warning/error "udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead." repeats 6 times (either as described above, or when running "ubuntu-drivers devices"). After adding ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa, the warning/error repeats 8 times. The number of repeats seems to correspond to the number of driver options (not counting nouveau). Also, nvidia-driver-545 appears after adding the ppa, but 550 does not.

$ ubuntu-drivers devices
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.
udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead.

...

driver : nvidia-driver-545 - third-party non-free recommended
driver : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-545-open - third-party non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-535-server-open - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-535-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-535-open - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-535 - distro non-free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin