Error when installing nvidia-utils-535: "Invalid cross-device link"

[Daniel Richard G.]

This concerns nvidia-utils-535 (535.161.07-0ubuntu3) in Ubuntu noble.

I had already installed nvidia-cuda-toolkit, and then...

# apt-get install nvidia-utils-535
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  nvidia-driver-535
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-utils-535
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 405 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1157 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://apt.example.com/ubuntu noble/restricted amd64 nvidia-utils-535 amd64 535.161.07-0ubuntu3 [405 kB]
Fetched 405 kB in 0s (2693 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-utils-535.
(Reading database ... 51672 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-utils-535_535.161.07-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nvidia-utils-535 (535.161.07-0ubuntu3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-utils-535_535.161.07-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to make backup link of './usr/bin/nvidia-debugdump' before installing new version: Invalid cross-device link
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-utils-535_535.161.07-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

Seeing some strange "Device or resource busy" errors on the /usr/bin/nvidia-debugdump file, seemingly due to Nvidia lossage. Closing as likely unrelated to the packaging.