[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2022-02-08 Thread Simon Chopin
I installed a new Focal desktop on a machine with a NVidia discrete GPU yesterday using a daily ISO, and the resulting system didn't have any package marked to autoremove. The nvidia-driver-510 package was marked as manually installed, but its dependencies were correctly marked as auto-installed.

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2022-01-31 Thread Brian Murray
I tested a daily install of Ubuntu 20.04 from 20220131 and no packages are suggested for autoremoval and ubuntu-restricted-addons was installed after the reboot. However, I didn't test with nvidia hardware so its possible the bug in the original description still exists. Additionally, Steve's poin

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2022-01-31 Thread Brian Murray
Testing this again today I discovered that "ubuntu-restricted-addons" was not installed on the resultant system and that by installing it nothing was autoremovable anymore. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-29 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1955

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread Brian Murray
Attached is /var/log/installer/syslog ** Attachment added: "syslog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1955047/+attachment/5548113/+files/syslog -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread Brian Murray
I tested an installation of Focal using the Ubuntu 20.04.3 installation media and while I didn't have nvidia hardware some packages were suggested for auto-removal - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra, gstreamer1.0-vaapi, libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 and libva-wayland2. These were also in the autoremove

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread Steve Langasek
Please attach the contents of /var/log/installer from the affected system. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Jammy) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1955047

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread Steve Langasek
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[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread Steve Langasek
this is going to require follow-up handling in ubuntu-release-upgrader to fix the state on upgrade to 22.04. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: ubuntu-r

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread Brian Murray
** Package changed: ubuntu => ubiquity (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1955047 Title: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people

[Bug 1955047] Re: Nvidia drivers are marked as "auto" at installation and thus removed by `apt autoremove`

2021-12-16 Thread quazgar
Workaround: Install the Nvidia package manually, for example `apt install nvidia-384` (or whichever version works best for your hardware). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1955047 Title: