Proprietary drivers are installed locally and not on the target system
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
* Installing systems with nvidia graphics card, and opting to use it, does not end up setting it up in the installed system
[Test Case]
* Install on a system with nvidia graphics card
* Opt to use 3rd party & proprietary drivers
* Observe that nvidia dkms modules are installed in the target system
[Regression Potential]
* Installation of 3rd party drivers was not attempted before, and thus may now fail, however that is non-default codepath (opt-in).
* there are updates to flash-kernel & shim-signed which may regress that functionality under ubiquity, but shouldn't (see changelogs for those package updates)
[Other Info]
* original bug report:
On a system with hardware requiring proprietary drivers (eg nVidia graphics card), when the user selects to install restricted add-ons and proprietary drivers, ubuntu-drivers runs immediately when the installer exits the prepare step.
Doing so it installs the drivers on the live session. However this step is not executed in the target filesystem afterward, once its ready.
Therefore, after installation, the proprietary drivers are not installed on the system.
The installation of proprietary drivers must happen in the live session, for network drivers for example, and in the target system for all the drivers supported by the system.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 21 09:49:29 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-03 (1843 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130902)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-01-26 (237 days ago)
summary: |
- Proprietary drivers are installed locally instead of target system + Proprietary drivers are installed locally and not on target system |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Proprietary drivers are installed locally and not on target system + Proprietary drivers are installed locally and not on the target system |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: id-5bacf4d167b9b07053633a4f |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-18.04.2 |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 19.04.4
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ubiquity (19.04.4) disco; urgency=medium
* When installing non-free packages, also iterate and install any
apt-installed marked packages which may include non-free drivers
detected by ubuntu-drivers. LP: #1793671
-- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:22:12 +1100