Proprietary Nvidia Driver Broken

[eris]

I broke my Nvidia install by doing a d-u last weekend.


1. I hadn't done a d-u in a month, so I thought I should upgrade
2. I had installed the proprietary nvidia driver using the recommended debian method.  (update, then install nvidia-driver).
3. It had been working fine.
4. The d-u aborted after installing a new kernel and rebuilding / installing the updated boot image.
5. X wouldn't start on reboot.  startx wouldn't work either.
6. For some reason xorg-driver-video-nvidia (version 375.82-4) was only partially installed.
7. I spent a couple hours trying to find out what was broken.   The usual problems with package dependencies which "aren't going to be installed".  Rumors that the nvidia drivers were broken in Sid and needed to be installed from experimental.
8. I decided to force a re-install of xorg-driver-video-nvidia and that seems to have fixed the broken dependencies.
9. X starts on reboot, but the keyboard and mouse aren't working.  I assume I need to run a reconfigure on some component to fix that up.


Has anyone else seen this?


BTW: Several times (including the latest attempt) when I've tried to d-u, 'sddm' is either not found, not upgraded or de-selected in favor of gdm or every other display manager.  What's going on here?

[dibl]

A month with no upgrade is a very long time in the life of sid ....


I downloaded today's upgrade but did not install it on my main productivity system because I don't want to lose hplip.  The Nvidia driver is working correctly.

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System:    Host: Hibiscus Kernel: 4.13.5-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.10.5 Distro: siduction 13.2.1 December - kde - (201401272125)
Machine:   Device: desktop System: ASUS product: All Series serial: N/A
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z87-WS v: Rev 1.xx serial: N/A
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2004 date: 06/05/2014
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-4770 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3401 MHz 1: 3501 MHz 2: 3501 MHz 3: 3501 MHz 4: 3501 MHz 5: 3501 MHz
           6: 3501 MHz 7: 3501 MHz 8: 3501 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.4 ) driver: nvidia
           Resolution: 1920x1200@59.88hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.82
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA Device 0fbc driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-3 Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX driver: USB Audio
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.5-towo.1-siduction-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Intel I210 Gigabit Network Connection driver: igb
           IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intel I210 Gigabit Network Connection driver: igb
           IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 3120.6GB (30.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: OCZ_VERTEX size: 120.0GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1001FALS size: 1000.2GB
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD1000DHTZ size: 1000.2GB
           ID-4: /dev/sdd model: WDC_WD1000DHTZ size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 26G used: 12G (48%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
           ID-2: /home size: 84G used: 52G (65%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.07GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb2
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 32C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 301 Uptime: 6 days Memory: 4638.7/32117.8MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.40

[towo]

apt purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/nvidia/{ print $2 }') && apt dist-upgrade && apt install nvidia-driver

[devil]

and regarding sddm: apt policy sddm. You might find it got removed.