nvidia drivers not setup on upgrade from oneiric to precise

[James Hunt]

Rebooting after upgrading from oneiric to precise resulted in the failsafe-x window popping up. There was no X cursor and the keyword also appeared not to work correctly (I was unable to select any option on the menu - the only working key appeared to be escape :-)

I had expected the installer to upgrade and rebuild the proprietary nvidia drivers I had installed via jockey in oneiric. The fix was to invoke "sudo dkms build -m nvidia-current -v <version>" manually and reboot to get back to using the nvidia drivers at the correct resolution.

A possible cause for this problem may be if upgrade-manager attempts to rebuild the drivers *before* upgrading the kernel and installing the correct linux-headers-<version> package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nvidia-common 1:0.2.36
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic-pae 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 12 13:19:07 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-common
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[riccardo de palo (riccardo-depalo-gmail)]

I have no cursor or keyboard problems, but very often I reboot and get system in failsafe mode. I have a 8400m nvidia graphic chip, and the problem began when I upgraded to new kernel 3.0