Bug#868332: nvidia-legacy-check aborts during apt-get dist-upgrade

[Luca Boccassi]

On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 16:25 +0200, Thomas Loimer wrote:
> Package: nvidia-legacy-check
> Version: 375.66-1
> 
> On upgrading from jessie to stretch, during apt-get dist-upgrade,
> nvidia-legacy-check was installed, it correctly detected a legacy 
> graphics card and correctly informed the user to install
> nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver and nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms
> (although 
> the former depends on the latter). It finally asked whether the
> newer 
> nvidia-driver should be installed. I said No, then the upgrade
> aborted, 
> because nvidia-legacy-check returned an error.
> 
> I believe, regardless of the choice, nvidia-legacy-check should not 
> error out, but let apt-get dist-upgrade continue.
> 
> It took some efforts to continue the upgrade, involving something
> like
> apt-get purge nvidia-legacy-check, apt --fix-broken install, and
> apt-get dist-upgrade. The system then booted into the console, where
> the 
> legacy driver could be installed
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas

Andreas can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the idea is that you
don't want the upgrade to progress at all if it means an incompatible
driver is going to be installed. By exiting then the user can apply the
recommendation.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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