apt fails trying to upgrade nvidia-352

Bug #1637943 reported by Marco Ceresa
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The following packages will be upgraded:
  nvidia-352
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,786 B of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/restricted amd64 nvidia-352 amd64 361.45.11-0ubuntu4 [4,786 B]
Fetched 4,786 B in 0s (12.7 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 429885 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-352_361.45.11-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Failed to stop var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount: Unit var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount not loaded.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-352_361.45.11-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
Failed to get unit file state for var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount: No such file or directory
var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-352_361.45.11-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: apt 1.3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-27.29-generic 4.8.1
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Oct 31 09:12:55 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-20 (345 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-28 (2 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Marco Ceresa (ceresa) wrote :
summary: - apt upgrade fails trying to upgrade nvidia-352
+ apt fails trying to upgrade nvidia-352
affects: apt (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-352 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
x (xtxrx) wrote :

I am affected from the bug as well.
Since we are on 367.57 (nvidia-367), can't we just remove this package(nvidia-352) and get rid of the issue?

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