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jockey package

Cannot uninstall Nvidia drivers

Bug #1062846 reported by Carla Sella on 2012-10-06

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	jockey (Ubuntu)	Fix Committed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have Ubuntu 12.04.1 with 12.10 kernel 3.5.0-17 (installed for testing).
When I go to System Settings, Additional drivers to install Nvidia-173 drivers everything is fine.
For testing purposes I decide to uninstall Nvidia-173 drivers to try out Nvidia-current drivers.
I click on deactivate, it seem deactivated, I reboot, when I logon after reboot and go to Additional drivers I find the situation you see in screenshot1: "the driver is activated but not currently in use", but if I type lsmod in terminal you can see the driver is used, see attached lsmod.txt file.
I should expect that the file is deactivated when I reboot my PC.
This is my hardware: http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/CarlaSella/lshw.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.26~precise1-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDmesg: [ 25.169969] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1677) terminated with status 1
Date: Sat Oct 6 15:42:14 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=85f8c649-a0b7-4899-8b56-cf85fbe7f8e5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: jockey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0702
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: M2N
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0702:bd05/28/2007:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM2N:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#1

screenshot1 Edit (1.0 MiB, image/png)
.var.log.jockey.log.txt Edit (202.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (51.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Devices.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (11.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (398 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (141 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (63.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (817 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (121.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (275.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#2

lsmod.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#3

Now, I'm quite sure it's a bug anymore as I clicked on the remove button, rebooted and now the dirver is uninstalled.
I'm quite sure I did this before reporting the bug and the driver was not uninstalled.
I will try again to see what happens.

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#4

lsmod2.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#5

screenshot2 Edit (274.0 KiB, image/png)

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#6

lsmod3.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

I reinstalled the Nvidia-173 driver.
After that I removed it and rebooted.
When my PC restarted I got a message that my PC could start only in low graphics mode, and had only a terminal to logon, no desktop session.
I logged on and the output of lsmod is in the attached file lsmod3.txt where as you can see there are no graphics drivers (no nouveau a no Nvidia ones).
I ran a dpkg --list *nvidia* to find Nvidia drivers installed and as you can see in the attached nvidia.txt file, the Nvidia-173 drivers where still installed.
I had to remove them with dpkg -r and after reboot I found myself with the nouveau drivers installed.

This has happened to me quite often testing 12.10 kernel on 12.04.

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#7

dpkg.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain)

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#8

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1062846

tags:

added: package-qa-testing

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-06:

#9

Also Nvidia-current drivers seem to not get loaded on boot see bug #101828 comment 83.

summary:

- Cannot uninstall Nvidia-173 driver
+ Cannot uninstall Nvidia drivers

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-10-11:

#10

I have this problem also with kernel 3.5.0-17.28.

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2013-01-06:

#11

This bug has been solved, see related bug #1011828, so I'm marking it fix committed.

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed

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