With Fedora, I usually drop/boot into single user, and remove any package
with NVIDIA in their name,
rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia | xargs dnf remove -y
# rpm -qa return all locally installed packages
this brings me to a clean state, which allow me to install the nvidia
driver again.
I think you should be able to do the same with Debian based distro, unless
you used NVIDIA installer directly.
--
Rabin
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 16:09, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote:
> I am trying to recover from the bungled upgrade.
> I found some answers in the Internet. For example, to use kernel 6.1.0-
> 17 instead of 6.1.0-18 whose package version is 6.1.76-1) and to enable
> bookworm-updates
> (
> https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debian-12-and-nvidia-driver-nvidia-linux-x86-64-470-223-02-run/282473
> ).
>
> Now I am stuck with inability to uninstall xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470
> (which I think was installed in one of failed attempts to recover) due
> to error in its postrm script.
>
> Before doing crazy things such as forced uninstallation or doing
> restore from backup which I took just before full upgrade, I'd like to
> know how do people deal with such problems (in Debian and maybe also in
> Ubuntu).
>
> Thanks,
> --- Omer Zak
>
> (The above is less than total disaster because it happens in a laptop
> which is not my primary work PC. I plan to upgrade my work PC only
> after having successfully upgraded the laptop. I also kept enough
> backups to have the option to perform a fresh reinstall.)
>
>
> On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 15:27 +0200, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote:
> > My experience with NVIDIA and DKMS is that with very recent Kernels
> > the build can break,
> > but I didn't have that for some time now (years).
> >
> > Also, I get my driver from my distro repo (Fedora), which reduce the
> > chance of these issues.
> >
> > --
> > Rabin
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 12:01, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote:
> > > I have upgraded a laptop from Debian 11 (Bullseye) to Debian 12
> > > (Bookworm)
> > >
> > > Now I am running into trouble when trying to build DKMS modules
> > > needed
> > > by nvidia-driver (the proprietary one) on the most recent kernel
> > > version (I tried both 6.1.76-1 and 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1).
> > >
> > > There are some compile-time errors (different errors in different
> > > attempts).
> > >
> > > Is there any information about known problems of getting Nvidia
> > > software to interoperate with Debian 12 (Bookworm) working on up-
> > > to-
> > > date kernels?
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