[Bug 1994035] [NEW] Kubuntu 22.04 cannot upgrade/install nvidia driver after kernel update

[Alfredo Gemma]

Public bug reported:

After the automatic upgrade of the kernel to 5.17.0-1020-oem, the nvidia driver became unavailable:
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Trying to install any nvidia drivers using kubuntu-driver-manager throws
the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/qt/SoftwarePropertiesQt.py", line 1065, in on_driver_selection_changed
    modules_package_obj = self.apt_cache[modules_package]
TypeError: Expected a string or a pair of strings
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/qt/SoftwarePropertiesQt.py", line 1065, in on_driver_selection_changed
    modules_package_obj = self.apt_cache[modules_package]
TypeError: Expected a string or a pair of strings

Trying to manually install any nvidia drivers from command line doesn't
produce any changes (no Nvidia driver detected) and it requires
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py to be fixed in
advanced ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-
common/+bug/1993019/comments/5 )

Trying to revert back to a previous Kernel version doesn't fix the
issue.

KDE Plasma version: 5.25.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
QT Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.17.0-1020-oem (64 bit)
-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GA103M [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller cap_list fb
       configuration: depth=32 latency=0 mode=2560x1440 visual=truecolor xres=2560 yres=1440
       resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:640-63f memory:83000000-83ffffff memory:6000000000-63ffffffff memory:6400000000-6401ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:84000000-8407ffff

** Affects: kubuntu-driver-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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