Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers package

nvidia-current fails to install. Cannot build module on lucid.

Bug #785456 reported by Ryan Lovett on 2011-05-19

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

I tried to follow the bug reporting guidelines with "ubuntu-bug nvidia-graphics-drivers", but it reported "Package nvidia-graphics-drivers does not exist".

When I try to install nvidia-current, it fails:

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# apt-get install nvidia-current
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nvidia-current
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/40.8MB of archives.
After this operation, 133MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-current.
(Reading database ... 253506 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nvidia-current (from .../nvidia-current_195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-current (195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Loading new nvidia-current-195.36.24 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.32-31-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 2.6.32-31-generic

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.32-31-generic (x86_64)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing nvidia-current (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-31-generic
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-current
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
====================================================

The make.log reports:

DKMS make.log for nvidia-current-195.36.24 for kernel 2.6.32-31-generic (x86_64)
Thu May 19 15:59:55 PDT 2011
make[1]: Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'. Stop.
make: *** [module] Error 2

and in fact there is no file named "Makefile":

# ls /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/
conftest.sh nvacpi.c nv-linux.h os-agp.h
cpuopsys.h nvacpitypes.h nv-memdbg.h os-interface.c
dkms.conf nv.c nv-misc.h os-interface.h
gcc-version-check.c nv_gvi.c nvreadme.h os-registry.c
makefile nv.h nv-reg.h patches
Makefile.kbuild nv-i2c.c nvtypes.h README
Makefile.nvidia nvidia.ko nv-vm.c rmil.h
make.log nvidia.mod.c nv-vm.h rmretval.h
modules.order nvidia.o nv-xen.h xapi-sdk.h
Module.symvers nv-kernel.o os-agp.c

Changing into that build directory and running "make -f makefile" does nothing. Running "make -f Makefile.nvidia" produces:

# make -f Makefile.nvidia
In file included from /lib/modules/2.6.32-31-generic/build/include/linux/kernel.h:11,
                 from /lib/modules/2.6.32-31-generic/build/include/linux/sched.h:54,
                 from /lib/modules/2.6.32-31-generic/build/include/linux/utsname.h:35,
                 from nv-linux.h:27,
                 from nv.c:14:
/lib/modules/2.6.32-31-generic/build/include/linux/linkage.h:5:25: error: asm/linkage.h: No such file or directory
[snip]

Running "make -f Makefile.kbuild" generates a lot of warnings but then runs across this error first:

In file included from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/nv.c:14:
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/nv-linux.h:209:6: warning: "NV_ACPI_WALK_NAMESPACE_ARGUMENT_COUNT" is not defined
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/nv-linux.h:211:8: warning: "NV_ACPI_WALK_NAMESPACE_ARGUMENT_COUNT" is not defined
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/nv-linux.h:215:2: error: #error "NV_ACPI_WALK_NAMESPACE_ARGUMENT_COUNT value unrecognized!"
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/nv-linux.h:637:2: error: #error "NV_KMEM_CACHE_CREATE() undefined (kmem_cache_create() unavailable)!"
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/nv-linux.h:754:2: error: #error "NV_ON_EACH_CPU() undefined (on_each_cpu() unavailable)!"

I tried googling and found dozens of similar reports but no fixes.

# uname -r
2.6.32-31-generic

# dpkg -l | grep linux-header
ii linux-headers-2.6.32-21 2.6.32-21.32 Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.6.32
ii linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic 2.6.32-21.32 Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-headers-2.6.32-31 2.6.32-31.61 Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.6.32
ii linux-headers-2.6.32-31-generic 2.6.32-31.61 Linux kernel headers for version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-headers-generic 2.6.32.31.37 Generic Linux kernel headers

# lspci | grep -i vga
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 06fd (rev a1)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 06fd (rev a1)
---
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-generic 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic x86_64
UserGroups: upush
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.32-31-generic

See original description

Tags:

bugbot (bugbot) on 2011-05-20

tags:

added: lucid