Comment 262 for bug 1268257

i went to Debian months ago over THIS.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Gordon Hocking <email address hidden> wrote:

> I am not sure this should be debated here, but I totally agree with Ken,
> I see fix released but have been unable find it anywhere.
> Personally my system seems to be OK but until I am satisfied 340 is the
> end of the story I still follow this bug.
>
> Having been an advocate for Linux for more than 15 years it is a shame
> to see the standard apparently declining.
>
> On 10/04/2015 22:26, Ken Wagner wrote:
> > Bump.
> >
> > On 04/10/2015 03:13 PM, KennoVO wrote:
> >> As long as the current LTS (i.e. 331) drivers are not fixed, I think it
> >> is wrong to set the status for nvidia-drivers-ubuntu to "Fix Released".
> >> Can someone with the necessary permissions please undo the status change
> >> by royalsabz (mehrshad-5843) ? And set the importance to "High", while
> >> you're at it? This is a really important high-impact bug that should be
> >> as high as possible on the agenda until it's completely fixed for all
> >> currently supported releases. In this light, the apparent casual lack of
> >> attention from Canonical's side is beyond my comprehension. I can only
> >> speculate they're too busy making Vivid attractive enough to lure in new
> >> users, and are forgetting about keeping long-time users.
> >>
> >> To the people who think that's the right thing to do: please try to
> >> weigh the potential harm caused by delaying Vivid a day or so against
> >> the actual harm of having thousands of long-time users' desktops
> >> breaking en masse because of running seemingly-innocuous kernel
> >> updates...
> >>
>
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> duplicate bug report (1395929).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268257
>
> Title:
> nvidia-331-updates 331.38-0ubuntu3: nvidia-331-updates kernel module
> failed to build, with only error: "objdump: '... .tmp_nv.o': No such
> file"
>
> Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
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>
> This seems to fix it (at least for one version upgrade) for many
> people
>
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-331
>
> after that...
>
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-331-uvm
>
> (some users may be on the versions of these packages suffixed with
> -updates )
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>
> Nvidia kernel module failed to build on kernel 3.13.0-2
> Yesterday when the new kernel was pushed, the dkms process failed.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: nvidia-331-updates 331.20-0ubuntu9
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
> Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1
> Architecture: amd64
> DKMSKernelVersion: 3.13.0-2-generic
> Date: Sun Jan 12 01:28:35 2014
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-03 (69 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64
> (20131016.1)
> PackageVersion: 331.20-0ubuntu9
> SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates
> Title: nvidia-331-updates 331.20-0ubuntu9: nvidia-331-updates kernel
> module failed to build
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-29 (13 days ago)
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