> Such work is not "necessary", as yours is really an unsupported corner
> case. If you insist on keeping the nvidia driver installed and disabled,
> against what we recommend, that is your problem.

And how was I supposed to know what you "recommend"?

Back in the days when I installed Ubuntu on my machine, there was a friendly 
interface somewhere like "Software & Updates" > "Additional Drivers" or 
something, where I could choose to install and use the NVidia drivers.
Then, when I saw they wouldn't work, I went to the same interface and chose not 
to use them. No warning appeared telling me that was "not recommended" or that 
I should uninstall the drivers.

Should I have read the whole Ubuntu documentation, like "Let's see if
what I just did through the standard interface is not recommended, and
if they recommend doing something else like uninstalling the driver".

It's not that I "insist" in keeping the driver installed and disabled. I
did that ages ago and forgot about it. And I very much doubt it's that
much of a "corner case". Right in this thread you have another user to
whom the exact same thing happened.

And even if we are few, we got in our situation by just using what then
was the user interface (I mean, we didn't tinkle and mess around with
stuff), so if we got to a situation that was not supported, something
was wrong in Ubuntu in the first place, and if we got into a situation
which was then supported and then stopped being, then it's Ubuntu
responsibility to make sure that automatic updates take that into
account and keep things working.


And also, if a piece of software is designed in such a way that if you stop 
using it yoy have to uninstall it otherwise it may be harmful, it is badly 
designed.

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  Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation

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