[Bug 1984193] Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers are not installed

[Carlos Nihelton]

@Brian, indeed downloading and flashing a new image overcame the casper-
md5chck errors and the NVidia proprietary driver was installed.

That piece of the syslog caught my attention:


Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu ubiquity: Unpacking nvidia-settings (510.47.03-0ubuntu1) ...#015
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu dbus-daemon[2445]: [session uid=999 pid=2445] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Extract' unit='tracker-extract-3.service' requested by ':1.27' (uid=999 pid=2681 comm="/usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3 " label="unconfined")
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu systemd[2433]: Starting Tracker metadata extractor...
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu ubiquity: Selecting previously unselected package vdpau-driver-all:amd64.#015
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu ubiquity: Preparing to unpack .../32-vdpau-driver-all_1.4-3build2_amd64.deb ...#015
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu ubiquity: Unpacking vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.4-3build2) ...#015
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu dbus-daemon[2445]: [session uid=999 pid=2445] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Extract'
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu systemd[2433]: Started Tracker metadata extractor.
Aug 10 20:08:31 ubuntu tracker-extract[5820]: Could not get mimetype, Error when getting information for file “/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop.dpkg-new”: No such file or directory



Nvidia Settings was supposed to be installed, but it was not. The driver was, which is great!

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Title:
  Nvidia proprietary drivers are not installed

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Per test case
  http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/437/builds/255601/testcases/1718
  the Nvidia proprietary drivers should be installed, independent of the
  network availability. Testing the 22.04 ISO released in April, 2022,
  the installer **did install the NVidia driver** (but not the nvidia-
  settings app, as the test case also suggests).

  My device (Acer Aspire A515-52G-57NL) is equipped with an Intel
  i5-8265U processor (UHD Graphics 620) with a Nvidia GeForce MX130 GPU.
  I expected that, by checking the box "Install third-party software..."
  as instructed in step 6, I'd get the Nvidia driver installed. But that
  didn't happen in any of the two installation attempts I made. The
  system booted, enrolling MOK was successful, but there was only Mesa
  Intel graphics driver, thus the commands `nvidia-smi` and `nvidia-
  settings` could not run, suggesting a failure on steps 25 and 26 of
  the test case.

  By manually installing `nvidia-utils-515` and `nvidia-settings` I
  could achieve the results expected in steps 25 and 26, but that
  required me (the user) enabling network and explicitly installing the
  required packages.

  I wonder if the fact that the intel device is capable of displaying
  full graphics lead to the choice of skipping the Nvidia driver.

  ISO used for the tests (the current one at the moment of this
  writing): https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/jammy/daily-live/20220809/jammy-
  desktop-amd64.iso

  As said before, drivers did get installed when testing the Jammy
  Jellyfish ISO released in April.

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