Bug#1020761: nvidia-cuda-dev: Depends on driver from experimental or for tesla

[Meik Hellmund]

I stumbled about this problem yesterday (28 Sep) and 'solved' it by 

 apt install nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-cuda-toolkit
 apt dist-upgrade


On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:51:30 +0200 Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at normalesup.org> wrote:
> Package: nvidia-cuda-dev
> Version: 11.5.2-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> since yesterday, on this debian testing system, apt upgrade prints the following:
> 
> 
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  nvidia-alternative : Breaks: nvidia-tesla-alternative (> 0) but 510.85.02-1 is to be installed
> 
> 
> This appears to be because I have nvidia-cuda-dev (11.4.3-5) installed.
> Apt wants to upgrade it to 11.5.2-2, but that version wants libcuda1 (>=
> 495), which is only available in experimental. It sees the alternative
> libnvidia-tesla-cuda1 (>= 495), which is available in testing, but that
> requires changing too many packages.
> 
> I am confused, what is the expected path forward? Some possible
> hypotheses:
> 
> - the tesla driver somehow replaces the normal driver now. I am not
>   finding much evidence for this.
> 
> - nvidia-cuda-toolkit was accidentally uploaded too early /
>   nvidia-graphics-drivers was accidentally not uploaded early enough.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>   APT prefers testing-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable-debug'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> 



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Meik Hellmund
Mathematisches Institut, Uni Leipzig
e-mail: Meik.Hellmund at math.uni-leipzig.de
http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund