The Ubuntu package is mostly just a drop-in of the official Nvidia packages for Linux:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html So yes, this is actually an Nvidia upstream problem. I suspect that there is some sort of race condition in the provided build scripts written by Nvidia, and they are only showing up intermittently or under particular system configurations/states, so package reinstallation tends to work fine the second time. Related: I see this comment in Nvidia's Makefile regarding the "new" build system in Linux >= 2.6: # The new approach currently has its own share of problems, some of which # are architectural difficulties with KBUILD, others minor annoyances. For # this reason, an improved version of the NVIDIA Makefile is available to # those experiencing difficulties. So it sounds like they admit to having architectural difficulties here. I wonder where this "improved version" of the Makefile can be obtained... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to 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" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1268257/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
