linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1015-oem couldn't be installed

[Bin Li]

The linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1015-oem is in a wrong dependency.
After upgraded to latest kernel 1021-oem, the 1015-oem kernel failed to load the nvidia driver when boot up.

rc linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1015-oem 5.17.0-1015.16 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.17.0-1015
ii linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1021-oem 5.17.0-1021.22 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.17.0-1021
ii linux-modules-nvidia-515-oem-22.04a 5.17.0-1021.22 amd64 Extra drivers for nvidia-515 for the oem-22.04a flavour
ii linux-objects-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1015-oem 5.17.0-1015.16 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.17.0-1015 (objects)
ii linux-objects-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1021-oem 5.17.0-1021.22 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.17.0-1021 (objects)
ii linux-signatures-nvidia-5.17.0-1015-oem 5.17.0-1015.16 amd64 Linux kernel signatures for nvidia modules for version 5.17.0-1015-oem
ii linux-signatures-nvidia-5.17.0-1021-oem 5.17.0-1021.22 amd64 Linux kernel signatures for nvidia modules for version 5.17.0-1021-oem
ii nvidia-compute-utils-515 515.76+really.515.65.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-driver-515 515.76+really.515.65.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-515 515.76+really.515.65.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-515 515.76+really.515.65.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package

u@P360-tiny-1:~$ sudo apt install linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1015-oem
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1015-oem : Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-515 (<= 515.65.01-1) but 515.76+really.515.65.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Bin Li (binli)]

It's same issue for 1019-oem kernel.

$ sudo apt install linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1019-oem
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-modules-nvidia-515-5.17.0-1019-oem : Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-515 (<= 515.76-1) but it is not going to be installed
                                            Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-515 (>= 515.76) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Bin Li (binli)]

The nvidia driver for 1020-oem and 1021-oem works fine.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Nvidia 515.76 was superseded by 515.76+really.515.65.01, and is, therefore, not available in the archive. The dependency is correct, since allowing you to install the modules from 515.76 when user-space is really from 515.65.01 will break things badly.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

5.17.0-1015 and -1019 both are obsolete, the latest version is -1021

[Bin Li (binli)]

Thanks ablerto.

Hi Timo,

 If so the 5.17.0-1015 and -1019 kernel will be removed from ubuntu updates and security channels, right? Thanks!

$ rmadison linux-image-5.17.0-1015-oem
 linux-image-5.17.0-1015-oem | 5.17.0-1015.16 | jammy-security | amd64
 linux-image-5.17.0-1015-oem | 5.17.0-1015.16 | jammy-updates | amd64
$ rmadison linux-image-5.17.0-1019-oem
 linux-image-5.17.0-1019-oem | 5.17.0-1019.20 | jammy-updates | amd64

[Bin Li (binli)]

nvidia-graphics-drivers-515 (515.76+really.515.65.01-0ubuntu1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * Revert to the 515.65.01 version (LP: #1993041).
  * Revert "debian/templates/dkms_nvidia.conf.in: drop buildfix_kernel_6.0.patch"
  * debian/rules:
    Make sure that debian_version variable includes the full version, so that
    we depend on the correct libraries in case of release rollbacks.

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Oct 2022

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-515/+bug/1993041