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gcc-4.8 package

  1. Bug #1750937
  2. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 1750937

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Paul Lieverse (paul-lieverse) wrote : Re: 4.4.0-116 Kernel update on 2/21 breaks Nvidia drivers (on 14.04 and 16.04)

Had the same issue on 14.04 with HWE kernel.

Last Friday morning I got offered the -116 kernel - which broke the nvidia driver module, forcing me to revert back to the -112 kernel.

Only today (not checked during the weekend) I got offered the compiler update, from 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 to 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4.

Didn't re-install the -116 kernel yet, but given other people's experiences I trust that should now go fine.

However, it does show that there seems to be some dependency or distribution issue between this kernel and the required compiler version, offering the kernel update before the compiler update was available, and not holding off the kernel update if the compiler update isn't in place yet.