"patch" required for nvidia-180-kernel-source (nvidia-rt-compat.patch) but not in depends

[Greg]

I have been struggling to get the nvidia driver working on my system. A common debug/resolution suggestion that I've read is to uninstall/reinstall the nvidia drivers. The reinstall failed as I didn't have the "patch" package installed.
<log/>
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 35: patch: command not found
Error! Application of patch nvidia-rt-compat.patch failed.
</log>

"Patch" should be included as a depends for nvidia-180-kernel-source. Alternatively, I've read in a few places that nvidia-rt-compat.patch may no longer be necessary; if that were the case the whole patch could be removed and this bug would no longer exist.

Kubuntu 9.04
2.6.28-15-generic
nvidia-180-kernel-source ver. 180-44

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Good catch, it seems most of the Ubuntu developers are developers so have patch installed and must have missed this.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Btw, are you using the -rt kernel? Perhaps that patch only gets triggered in certain circumstances.

It would be helpful if you would run apport-collect 434154 on the affected system, since that will include information that is helpful in understanding why things aren't working on your system.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Ah, this was fixed in 185.18.36-0ubuntu8 I see.

Package: nvidia-185-kernel-source
Architecture: i386 amd64 lpia
Depends: make, sed (>> 3.0), dkms, linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev, linux-headers-generic | linux-headers,
 patch
Recommends: nvidia-glx-185 (>= 185.18.31)

nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (185.18.36-0ubuntu8) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control, debian/control.in:
    - Add dependency on patch to nvidia-$VER-kernel-source (LP: #453961).

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:49:30 +0200

[Greg (iskimj)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UserGroups: root