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**sithlord48** · Feb 28, 2015, 08:02 AM

you can try with the option

--no-install-recommends

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install nvidia-340

that might get rid of some of it.

i don't have the 340 version of the package so i tried with current and no gnome stuff at all

chris@void:~$ sudo apt-get -s install nvidia-current
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
lib32gcc1 libc6-i386 libcuda1-304 nvidia-304 nvidia-opencl-icd-304
nvidia-settings screen-resolution-extra
Recommended packages:
nvidia-libopencl1-304
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lib32gcc1 libc6-i386 libcuda1-304 nvidia-304 nvidia-current
nvidia-opencl-icd-304 nvidia-settings screen-resolution-extra
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libc6-i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Inst libcuda1-304 (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Inst lib32gcc1 (1:4.9.1-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Inst nvidia-304 (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Inst nvidia-current (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Inst nvidia-opencl-icd-304 (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Inst screen-resolution-extra (0.17.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [all])
Inst nvidia-settings (331.20-0ubuntu8 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [amd64])
Conf libc6-i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Conf libcuda1-304 (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Conf lib32gcc1 (1:4.9.1-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Conf nvidia-304 (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Conf nvidia-current (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Conf nvidia-opencl-icd-304 (304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [amd64])
Conf screen-resolution-extra (0.17.1 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [all])
Conf nvidia-settings (331.20-0ubuntu8 Ubuntu:14.04/trusty [amd64])

it must be a packaging error for the new package, because can't see how nvidia driver could possibly need cheese to be installed .!?!?!?

**claydoh** · Feb 28, 2015, 08:29 AM

Yup, a big packaging bug, but I cannot find a report on it.

I'd suggest filling one

Code:

ubuntu-bug nvidia-340

I'd do it, but don't have Nvidia on my Vivid box.

As Sith mentioned, the --no-install-recommends should take care of all of that:

Code:

lark@jake-Latitude-D630:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-340 --no-install-recommends
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
Recommended packages:
  nvidia-settings nvidia-prime bumblebee libcuda1-340 nvidia-opencl-icd-340 nvidia-340-uvm
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386 nvidia-340
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 53.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 279 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

You may want to add the recommended packages listed above, I have all of them except bumblebee on my Utopic setup

**oshunluvr** · Feb 28, 2015, 09:30 AM

I'm running 346 and that didn't happen here. Also for me - the Nouveau driver would only stay up for a minute or two then freeze the desktop.

15.04 with nVidia GTX 780 on a Q6600 platform

EDIT: I also removed the bumblebee and intel crap before rebooting.

**oshunluvr** · Feb 28, 2015, 10:49 AM

Out of curiosity I went into 15.04 and did find 30 or so packages with "Gnome" in their descriptions. About half were related the GIMP, FIREFOX, or CHROMIUM. A few were needed by NVIDIA-SETTINGS.

I removed the 12 or so that weren't needed by other things, just to see if anything would break.

**vinnywright** · Mar 20, 2015, 10:33 PM

He he ,,,,

forgot about this thread ,,,,,but by coincidence I just had problems with a kernel update +300+ other packages and booting to a black screen .

First lets say I got around the original ishue in the thread (all the gnome stuff with the Nvidia driver) by installing the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.47.run Downloaded from Nvidia .

But after the update 3 days ago I couldn't boot to a GUI .

the sddm log was showing a error of no GLX

[15:56:57.124] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully
[15:56:57.168] (EE) GREETER: Could not initialize GLX
[15:56:57.527] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended.
[15:56:57.528] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
[15:56:57.528] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped.
[15:57:32.611] (WW) DAEMON: Signal received: SIGTERM
[15:57:32.855] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopping...
[15:57:32.855] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopped.
[15:57:32.855] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopping...
[15:57:33.306] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopped.

and xorg.0.log snip-it

[ 58.372] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
[ 58.372] (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
[ 58.372] (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
[ 58.372] (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try
[ 58.372] (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

it seemed as though the nvidia GLX module did get built for the new kernel or was broken .

I just re-ran the Nvidia installer (from a TTY)and all is well once agin.

VINNY

**NoWorries** · Mar 23, 2015, 04:01 PM

I also downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.47.run and tried installing it by entering console with alt+ctrl + f2 and stopping sddm. I found that the installation failed with nouveau still running. I tried various ways to get it out of the system but these all failed.

I then tired using the advanced boot option and entered root to do the installation of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.47.run. After installing the gcc compiler, this went through to completion. When I tried to reboot I got the good old black screen and Vivid failed to boot. I tried re-installing and that caused no change.

As I was about to go away again, I ended up reinstalling Vivid using the 21st March build which I had tested and knew that it would work. So I will wait for NVIDIA packaging to be fixed.

I am now back on air and in a Hotel. BTW, as a final note, I have found while here that Vivid has better network connection than Utopic. The signal strength it about 10% stronger with Vivid

**vinnywright** · Mar 23, 2015, 04:43 PM

you half to blacklist nouveau,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf have

Code:

 blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off

then boot to root shell in recovery mode ,,,,,,,do a

Code:

mount -o remount rw /

then run the nividia installer .

VINNY

**NoWorries** · Mar 23, 2015, 11:59 PM

Many thanks for the steps that you have outlined

. At the moment, I am just barely connected as the wifi signal level is 32% and pages take a long time to load. Also, I get disconnected and reconnected

. I am very glad that I have Vivid aa I would not even be able to connect with Utopic. I guess that is the problem with Free Wifi in a UK hotel in Brighton. When I get back to my Son's place, I will certainly give it a go.

By then Beta 2 will be out and it will be great to see more progress in this area and in the area of Widgets

.

**NoWorries** · Mar 29, 2015, 08:35 AM

I have just tried what was suggested and it did not work for my system. It stopped at "starting version 219" and all the options that I tried to start sddm failed to do anything.

I reinstalled using the 29th March build and I have now found that Muon Package Manager has no Menu Bar. I found a bug report on this problem and have supported this as a new bug.

**eco2geek** · Apr 02, 2015, 12:27 AM

Originally posted by vinnywright View Post

it seemed as though the nvidia GLX module did get built for the new kernel or was broken .

I just re-ran the Nvidia installer (from a TTY)and all is well once agin.

The same thing happened to me -- I had v340.76 of the Nvidia driver manually installed, and after a dist-upgrade, sddm wouldn't run. The logs indicated a problem with GLX.

It didn't occur to me to simply re-install the driver, so thanks for that. I'd gone back to using nouveau.

Actually, this time I installed "nvidia-340-updates" from the repo, using the "--no-install-recommends" option to avoid all those GNOME packages, and it seems to be working fine.

(Edit) If you want to blacklist nouveau, another way to do it is to look for the line in /etc/default/grub that reads:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Edit it so that it reads

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"

and run "sudo update-grub".

(You don't need to do this if you install the proprietary Nvidia driver from the Ubuntu repositories.)

**NoWorries** · Apr 03, 2015, 01:16 PM

I am pleased to report that this problem with most of Gnome is now solved. I tried to install NVIDIA drivers and an example of the command line now gives

Code:

 [FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-346 [/COLOR]
[sudo] password:  
Reading package lists... Done 
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done 
The following extra packages will be installed: 
  bbswitch-dkms dkms lib32gcc1 libc6-i386 libcuda1-346 libjansson4 libxnvctrl0 nvidia-opencl-icd-346 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings pkg-config screen-resolution-extra 
Suggested packages: 
  bumblebee 
The following NEW packages will be installed 
  bbswitch-dkms dkms lib32gcc1 libc6-i386 libcuda1-346 libjansson4 libxnvctrl0 nvidia-346 nvidia-opencl-icd-346 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings pkg-config 
  screen-resolution-extra 
0 to upgrade, 13 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. 
Need to get 72.6 MB/75.9 MB of archives. 
After this operation, 350 MB of additional disk space will be used. 
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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Unfortunately when I did this, I had a Plasma failure which gave a black screen. So I had to remove all the installed packages to get my system back again.

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