Nvidia 550.120 update issue

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Hello,

recently i tried 560 and 555, but then went back to 550 as none of them seemed stable enough as 550 is.

Today there was update to 550.120 and it fails to install the update with:

Loading new nvidia-550.120 DKMS files...
Building for 6.8.0-45-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 6.8.0-45-generic
Error!  Patch nv-vtophys-explicit-void-cast.patch as specified in dkms.conf cannot be
found in /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/550.120/build/patches/.

It also fails to install with using sudo apt install --install-recommends nvidia-driver-550

Is there any option to rollback to previous 550.107.02 version?

Thank you

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Crashed my install as well, full install say I lack dependency grrr. second time an update crash my install had to install clean 17.2 last week didn't had time to take a snapshot.

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I've successfully rolled back to previous version with this command:

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" libnvidia-gl-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" nvidia-dkms-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" nvidia-kernel-common-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" nvidia-kernel-source-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" libnvidia-compute-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" libnvidia-extra-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" libnvidia-decode-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" libnvidia-encode-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" nvidia-compute-utils-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" nvidia-utils-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" libnvidia-cfg1-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1" libnvidia-fbc1-550="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1"

Then, tell apt to hold the package:

sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-driver-550

You can unhold the package once the issue is fixed by the maintainers.

Note that I'm on ubuntu and I have nothing to do with "zorin". I found the topic while googling the issue.

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@mkg Thanks. I'm on Linux Mint 19.3 and that managed to help. It's such an annoying thing to happen at 1 AM.

For me, I recommend the following changes to make it easier for anyone attempting the same.

  1. Rather than typing out that version string a million times, I did export gpu_ver="550.107.02-0ubuntu0.22.0.4.1". I could then substitute them like apt install nvidia-driver-550="$gpu_ver". Repeated for every package, it makes it less prone to typos and faster to type.

  2. Rather than copying what you had in your request I started with just the apt install nvidia-driver-550="$gpu_ver". It then complained about every dependent package, and I was able to copy and paste those.

Big note: It looks like it forced me to go from kernel version 5.15 that shipped with Linux Mint 19.3 and it moved me all the way to 6.8.0-45-generic, which is what Ubuntu 24.04 ships with. I was planning on upgrading to Mint 20 at some point, so I might need to roll back on that to make that upgrade go smoothly.

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