Bug#902632: nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms: the compiled module fails to load with error 'Invalid module format'

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 22:17:54 +0200 Lieven Marchand <mal at wyrd.be> wrote:
> Package: nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms
> Version: 340.107-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> root at black:/lib/modules/4.14.0-2-amd64/updates/dkms# insmod ./nvidia-
> legacy-340xx.ko
> insmod: ERROR: could not insert module ./nvidia-legacy-340xx.ko:
Invalid module
> format
> 
> root at black:/lib/modules/4.14.0-2-amd64/updates/dkms# file nvidia-
> legacy-340xx.ko
> nvidia-legacy-340xx.ko: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1
(SYSV),
> BuildID[sha1]=c2d6aedbe3a90f6bc1dafaebdfdfc02b95397fc9, not stripped

1) Do not use insmod, use modprobe
2) You do not have the right headers installed
3) 4.14 is not supported anymore in any Debian suite, 4.16 is currently
in buster/sid, use linux-headers-amd64 and linux-image-amd64

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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