after install, invoking nvidia-settings shows no driver

Bug #1900929 reported by rob grune
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NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu
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nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Using MUON, installed the nvidia driver metapackage for 450.
[note; this bug applies to all packages, 390, 330, etc].

Using terminal, when invoking nvidia-settings, the nvidia window is completely blank and the following errors are reported...

(process:18974): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:23:46.948: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
(nvidia-settings:18974): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:23:47.413: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: 08:23:47.420: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 08:23:47.420: PRIME: is it supported? no

Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-52-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 6 × AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

Please run the following command to gather logs for the system:
apport-collect 1900929

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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rob grune (robgrune) wrote : Re: [Bug 1900929] Re: after install, invoking nvidia-settings shows no driver

lspci...
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX
1050 Ti] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio
Controller (rev a1)

Daniel:

Thanks for your email.  Hours after I posted the bug message, my
computer would not boot to the Kubuntu 20.04 o/s.  I determined the
culprit was the Nvidia software.  I attempted to purge the Nvidia
drivers via the terminal, but no success. I was then forced to perform a
fresh install of Kubuntu. The fresh install succeeded, with the Nouveau
driver. I then installed the Nvidia 390 driver package, via the muon
package manager.  This succeeded, and I am happy to report the Nvidia
390 driver is properly installed and the nvidia-settings app runs properly.

I am very reluctant to again attempt the install of the 450 driver
package. The days for downtime and frustration to re-install are simply
too great.  Thanks for your attention and understanding.

regards,
RG.

On 2020-10-23 09:23, Daniel Letzeisen wrote:
> Please run the following command to gather logs for the system:
> apport-collect 1900929
>
> ** Changed in: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I'm going to go ahead and close this given we are missing some information and I've reported a similar bug (1988209) already.

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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