[Bug 1939251] [NEW] nvidia driver crashes after kernel upgrade

[marcw]

Public bug reported:

My two older Zotacs use the NV 340.108 driver and both are having the
same issue. After the latest dist-upgrade they boot fine but don't
display video, just a blank black screen with a randomly blinking
cursor. They're headless but I got into both with ssh in order to
uninstall the NV driver and now both boot normally but just use the
Nuveau default driver. Unfortunately I can't use either computer like
this (no NV driver). Afterward, I tried installing the NV driver with
Software-Updater but then received this warning after a few minutes:

Error while applying changes
pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package: installed nvidia-340 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10(313)
OK

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.35
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-25.27~20.04.1-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Aug  8 18:05:04 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-02-24 (165 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2021-02-24T10:56:52.723450

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade focal

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Title:
  nvidia driver crashes after kernel upgrade

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My two older Zotacs use the NV 340.108 driver and both are having the
  same issue. After the latest dist-upgrade they boot fine but don't
  display video, just a blank black screen with a randomly blinking
  cursor. They're headless but I got into both with ssh in order to
  uninstall the NV driver and now both boot normally but just use the
  Nuveau default driver. Unfortunately I can't use either computer like
  this (no NV driver). Afterward, I tried installing the NV driver with
  Software-Updater but then received this warning after a few minutes:

  Error while applying changes
  pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package: installed nvidia-340 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10(313)
  OK

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.35
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-25.27~20.04.1-generic 5.11.22
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Aug  8 18:05:04 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-02-24 (165 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: dist-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2021-02-24T10:56:52.723450

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