Bug#881990: nvidia-kernel-common: install fails: "version ... has bad syntax: invalid character in version number"
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.net
Fri Nov 17 11:13:55 UTC 2017
Package: nvidia-kernel-common
Version: 20151021+5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I got the following error:
[...]
Preparing to unpack .../14-nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb ...
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: warning: version '20051028\+1\+nmu2\~' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-uFJqP4/14-nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
new nvidia-kernel-common package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: warning: version '20051028\+1\+nmu2\~' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
new nvidia-kernel-common package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
[...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-uFJqP4/14-nvidia-kernel-common_20151021+5_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
-- no debconf information
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