Bug#1100354: nvidia-persistenced: fails to start due to missing dependency

[Adam Majer]

Package: nvidia-persistenced
Version: 535.230.02-1

× nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
      Loaded: loaded 
(/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service; enabled; preset: 
enabled)
      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-03-12 20:47:54 
CET; 2h 26min ago
  Invocation: ca86927402b94b0f8adcafb49fef1e5a
     Process: 1556 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --user nvpd 
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
     Process: 1584 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -rf /var/run/nvidia-persistenced 
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Mem peak: 1.8M
         CPU: 20ms

Mar 12 20:47:54 debian systemd[1]: Starting nvidia-persistenced.service 
- NVIDIA Persistence Daemon...
Mar 12 20:47:54 debian nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Started (1561)
Mar 12 20:47:54 debian nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Failed to open 
libnvidia-cfg.so.1: libnvidia-cfg.so.1: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory
Mar 12 20:47:54 debian nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Shutdown (1561)
Mar 12 20:47:54 debian nvidia-persistenced[1556]: nvidia-persistenced 
failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Mar 12 20:47:54 debian systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control 
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 12 20:47:54 debian systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed 
with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 12 20:47:54 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start 
nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon.



Installing package libnvidia-cfg1 fixes the problem


Depends: libnvidia-cfg1 | libnvidia-tesla-535-cfg1 | libnvidia-cfg.so.1 
| libnvidia-cfg1-any

I've had libnvidia-tesla-535-cfg1 installed but libnvidia-cfg1 was 
missing. Seems that libnvidia-cfg1 should be explicit and the others 
then can be removed as | part of the dependency

Depends: libnvidia-cfg1

would then work. If we need libnvidia-tesla-535-cfg1, then this should be,

Depends: libnvidia-cfg1, libnvidia-tesla-535-cfg1