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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 package

package nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build

Bug #761747 reported by Chris McGee on 2011-04-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #576648: package nvidia-* failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-* kernel module failed to build (Unable to determine the target kernel version.). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I try to switch from the current recommended NVidia driver to this version 173 I get "SystemError: installArchives() failed" message. The same thing occurs with the "jockey-test -e" command.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41~lucid1-generic-pae 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 15 09:06:12 2011
ErrorMessage: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 6457W56
PackageVersion: 173.14.22-0ubuntu11
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic-pae root=UUID=d7fcb035-13e5-474e-969b-a7adb83277d7 ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-173
Title: package nvidia-173 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-173 kernel module failed to build
dmi.bios.date: 06/06/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETB9WW (2.19 )
dmi.board.name: 6457W56
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETB9WW(2.19):bd06/06/2008:svnLENOVO:pn6457W56:pvrThinkPadT61p:rvnLENOVO:rn6457W56:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 6457W56
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61p
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.35-23-generic-pae

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Chris McGee (sirnewton-01) wrote on 2011-04-15:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (65.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (11.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DKMSBuildLog.txt Edit (977 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DkmsStatus.txt Edit (694 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (31.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (758 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (231 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (118.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (262.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (16.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (17.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (578 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
make.log.txt Edit (977 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (56.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (54.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Chris McGee (sirnewton-01) wrote on 2011-04-15:

I discovered the source of the bug. Although I was running with the 2.6.32 kernel I had also installed an experimental 10.04 2.6.35 kernel. The nvidia driver install would succeed building itself for the 2.6.32 kernel but when it tried to compile for the 2.6.35 kernel it would fail.

After completely uninstalling the 2.6.35 kernel package using synaptic everything started working fine.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2011-05-27:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #576648, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.