no X after upgrade to natty from 10.10 with nvidia-current 270.41.06/glx-185 - kernel-sources seem to be missing although installed

[HugoHirsch]

ANAMNESIS
I upgraded the box from a running 10.10 today. Installation went through smoothly. After reboot I didn't have any X.

Via console and the help of some internet forums I reinstalled kernel headers and sources (packages: linux-source, linux-generic, linux-headers-generic). While linux-sources (2.6.38.8.22) was not installed automatically both of the other packages existed.

The logs said, that module 'nvidia' could not be loaded - trying to reinstall (apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-current - 270.41.06-0ubuntu1) or reconfigure (dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-current) package nvidia-current yields the following error message:
Loading new nvidia-current-270.41.06 DKMS files....
Building only for 2.6.38-8-generic-pae
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.

EXPECTED
a) Package kernel-sources should be installed during system upgrade/update if necessary for proprietary UI-drivers. Update-manager did not warn about the possibility of 'loss of UI due to nvidia-packages' or something similar.
b) Cannot reconfigure or reinstall nvidia-software to get X up'n'running. Service restart gdm/x11-common does not change anything.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nvidia-current 270.41.06-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Tue May 3 01:18:38 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-05-02 17:45:53.099730
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.35-28-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-8-generic, i686: installed
 nvidia-current, 270.41.06: added
GraphicsCard:
 nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8600M GS] [10de:0425] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Device [1734:1107]
MachineType: FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO Xi 2428
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=b4495984-392d-4d73-b091-2edc40b3a8b4 ro quiet splash
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-02 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/10/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix
dmi.bios.version: 1.14C
dmi.board.name: F40
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.board.version: 00030D0055017031
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenix:bvr1.14C:bd07/10/2008:svnFUJITSUSIEMENS:pnAMILOXi2428:pvr:rvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:rnF40:rvr00030D0055017031:cvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: AMILO Xi 2428
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

This bug is not related to maverick (as tagged by bugbot) - it's a bug that followed an update from a running maverick to a natty not running anymore.

[HugoHirsch (ubuntubugs-aiki-it)]

I just installed natty on this box - a freshly installation keeps X running (with/without nvidia-proprietary modules).

The bug seems to be related to the update process. Because my (important) work machine runs with nvidia as well I do fear that it's left dead when I update to natty.

Anyone having the same trouble with nvidia and updates from 10.10 to 11.04?

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.