I am not sure this should be debated here, but I totally agree with Ken, I see fix released but have been unable find it anywhere. Personally my system seems to be OK but until I am satisfied 340 is the end of the story I still follow this bug.
Having been an advocate for Linux for more than 15 years it is a shame to see the standard apparently declining. On 10/04/2015 22:26, Ken Wagner wrote: > Bump. > > On 04/10/2015 03:13 PM, KennoVO wrote: >> As long as the current LTS (i.e. 331) drivers are not fixed, I think it >> is wrong to set the status for nvidia-drivers-ubuntu to "Fix Released". >> Can someone with the necessary permissions please undo the status change >> by royalsabz (mehrshad-5843) ? And set the importance to "High", while >> you're at it? This is a really important high-impact bug that should be >> as high as possible on the agenda until it's completely fixed for all >> currently supported releases. In this light, the apparent casual lack of >> attention from Canonical's side is beyond my comprehension. I can only >> speculate they're too busy making Vivid attractive enough to lure in new >> users, and are forgetting about keeping long-time users. >> >> To the people who think that's the right thing to do: please try to >> weigh the potential harm caused by delaying Vivid a day or so against >> the actual harm of having thousands of long-time users' desktops >> breaking en masse because of running seemingly-innocuous kernel >> updates... >> -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268257 Title: nvidia-331-updates 331.38-0ubuntu3: nvidia-331-updates kernel module failed to build, with only error: "objdump: '... .tmp_nv.o': No such file" Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: **WARNING:** This bug has been widely reported and has *many* automatic subscribers. Please be considerate. **If you need help:** try searching and asking on http://discourse.ubuntu.com or http://ubuntuforums.org or contacting a nearby user group (see http://loco.ubuntu.com or search for "LUG" in your area). Link back to this bug for clarity. --- This seems to fix it (at least for one version upgrade) for many people $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-331 after that... $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-331-uvm (some users may be on the versions of these packages suffixed with -updates ) --- **If you want to unsubscribe:** see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics- drivers-331-updates/+bug/1268257/+subscribe. You can also change your settings so you don't get comments but do get notified when the bug is solved - see https://askubuntu.com/questions/576523 for details. **If you want to comment:** Please consider if you have something meaningful to contribute to the 2500+ people who will get an email. **If you are an Ubuntu developer:** thanks for looking into this! :D ---- Nvidia kernel module failed to build on kernel 3.13.0-2 Yesterday when the new kernel was pushed, the dkms process failed. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nvidia-331-updates 331.20-0ubuntu9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4 Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 DKMSKernelVersion: 3.13.0-2-generic Date: Sun Jan 12 01:28:35 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-03 (69 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) PackageVersion: 331.20-0ubuntu9 SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates Title: nvidia-331-updates 331.20-0ubuntu9: nvidia-331-updates kernel module failed to build UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-29 (13 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/1268257/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
