Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 package

  1. Yakkety (16.10)
  2. Bug #1634802
  3. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1634802

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kary (kari-kivioja) wrote :

I did a little bit of more triaging:

Staying on my
    Linux acer07 4.8.0-21-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 4 18:27:25 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and only upgrading from "nvidia-304 304.131-0ubuntu5" to "nvidia-304 304.132-0ubuntu1"
brings up this problem.

On the other hand, staying on "nvidia-304 304.131-0ubuntu5" and doing a complete "apt-get dist-upgrade" otherwise, results in a completely functioning system.

So looks like this problem is more connected with nvidia-304 versions than kernel versions.

My workaround is (thanks to BTRFS allowing me to boot into various snapshots and having the earlier driver version available):

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/nvidia-304_mtrr-prob.pref
Package: nvidia-304
Pin: version 304.132-0ubuntu1
Pin-Priority: -1