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Micronaut

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Registered: 2019-07-04

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Update of nvidia drivers failed in Daedalus

Today I started my system and found an update for the nvidia drivers had been issued. I've updated them many times before with zero glitches. But today got errors:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-driver:
 nvidia-driver depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 535.309.01-0+deb12u1) | nvidia-k
ernel-535.309.01 | nvidia-open-kernel-535.309.01; however:
  Version of nvidia-kernel-dkms on system is 535.261.03-1.
  Package nvidia-kernel-535.309.01 is not installed.
  Package nvidia-open-kernel-535.309.01 is not installed.

When I try to update DKMS specifically, it complains that DKMS is the wrong version. No shit! So how do you update something that blocks its own update?

Linux hacienda 6.1.0-52-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.180-1 (2026-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Micronaut

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Re: Update of nvidia drivers failed in Daedalus

After trying to purge it all and go back to noveau from the recovery prompt, I find that it can't do that either. Everything it tries to do, even apt update, hits the same error about mismatched nvidia modules. This entire system is dead and unrecoverable due to some video driver version mismatch! I guess I'll have to reinstall something else.

fsmithred

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Re: Update of nvidia drivers failed in Daedalus

Maybe it will work better like this:

apt install nvidia-driver=535.309.01-0+deb12u1 nvidia-kernel-dkms=535.309.01-0+deb12u1

Micronaut

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Re: Update of nvidia drivers failed in Daedalus

The error message I am getting says this version of the firmware is "not installable". Does that mean it's not compatible? Or just not in the repository for Debian 12? Is there a backports repository that might have it?

Edit: And I'm also getting errors for some Devuan repositories not being accessible. Like they are down or not in the DNS servers.

Last edited by Micronaut (Yesterday 21:00:10)

greenjeans

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Re: Update of nvidia drivers failed in Daedalus

Edit: And I'm also getting errors for some Devuan repositories not being accessible. Like they are down or not in the DNS servers.

Possibly the entire problem right there, try a direct connect to a repo in your area. If you are in the US gnlug works great.

 deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged/ daedalus non-free-firmware non-free contrib main  
 deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged/ daedalus-updates main non-free-firmware non-free contrib  
 deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged/ daedalus-security main non-free-firmware non-free contrib  

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Micronaut

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Re: Update of nvidia drivers failed in Daedalus

Whatever is going on, it's blocking gnlug.org just like the other mirrors. All I get are "could not resolve" errors for both the original and these repositories. But I can boot another system running another distro (MX Linux) and it can connect to its own repositories.

A very weird problem. But I've got a copy of Excalibur installed on another disk. I'll see if I can move the data without too much trouble.

ralph.ronnquist

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Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: Update of nvidia drivers failed in Daedalus

What does the following say

apt-cache policy nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-dkms

You could also go to pkginfo.devuan.org to investigate which package versions are available and from where.