Failed to issue method call: Unit nvidia-prime.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| nvidia-prime (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Alberto Milone | ||
Bug Description
Utopic i386 with gtx 750 and q9550 (no builtin gpu here) using systemd-boot
Follow up lp:1365336 nvidia-331 package
error about nvidia-prime at build time:
oem@u32:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-331
[sudo] password for oem:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/27,7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 216738 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Unpacking nvidia-331 (331.89-0ubuntu3) over (331.89-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Setting up nvidia-prime (0.6.6) ...
Failed to issue method call: Unit nvidia-
invoke-rc.d: initscript nvidia-prime, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package nvidia-prime (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Setting up nvidia-331 (331.89-0ubuntu3) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
INFO:Enable nvidia-331
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/
Loading new nvidia-331-331.89 DKMS files...
Building only for 3.16.0-13-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 3.16.0-13-generic
Done.
nvidia_331:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/
depmod....
DKMS: install completed.
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-prime
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: nvidia-331 331.89-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 6 10:52:02 2014
SourcePackage: nvidia-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Note: uninstalling the faulty nvidia-prime package does not let booting with nvidia (jockey fails to find nvidia driver) and then 'nouveau' is used
| dino99 (9d9) wrote | #1 |
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: systemd-boot |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| summary: |
- Unit nvidia-prime.service failed to load: No such file or directory + Failed to issue method call: Unit nvidia-prime.service failed to load: + No such file or directory. |
| dino99 (9d9) wrote | #2 |
| Jochen Kemnade (jochenkemnade) wrote | #3 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in nvidia-prime (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in nvidia-prime (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Finally have purged all the nvidia-prime.* inside /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and /etc/init/ to be able to remove nvidia-prime package.
note: as gdm is now used due to lightdm is actually broken (but still installed), i wonder about the "start with lightdm" inside /etc/init/