Comment 126 for bug 1431753

Unfortunately, to get newer versions and hopefully out of Nvidia kernel
update hell, I went from LTS to the next regular unsupported, hoping to go
beyond that one to contemporary, but all went astray into unstable and
unbootable, probably in the filing to upgrade multiple times, repository
problems and bugs in same...

Possibly waiting a bit on 15.10alpha to mature and upgrade nonbootable disk
from cdr/dvdr/usbstick/netboot to get back to a working system.

Waiting for godot was too frustrating.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 09:36 teo1978 <email address hidden> wrote:

> If you have a machine that works, and you run automatic updates, and
> your machine stops working, there's a bug. If there's anything wrong in
> the machine configuration when you are updating, it must be detected, a
> warning given, and the option to continue at your own risk or skip that
> update.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1405597).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753
>
> Title:
> Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation
>
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> 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
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty:
> Invalid
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same
> applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two
> individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm.
> The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs
> compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is
> violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build
> independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules
> dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new
> kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel).
>
> Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right
> course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS
> module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS).
> For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a
> breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package.
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