nvidia-drivers-390 fail to build with kernel 5.3

Build log attached.

The HWE package now force-upgrades to 5.3.0, rendering that entire package useless.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Hello Ken, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Updated Bionic with all the latest packages before adding -proposed.

Building module:
cleaning build area...
unset ARCH; env NV_VERBOSE=1 'make' -j16 NV_EXCLUDE_BUILD_MODULES='' KERNEL_UNAME=5.3.0-26-generic IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 SYSSRC=/lib/modules/5.3.0-26-generic/build LD=/usr/bin/ld.bfd modules......(bad exit status: 2)
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.3.0-26-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.116/build/make.log for more information.
   ...done.

It seems to try twice during the update:

Building module:
cleaning build area...
unset ARCH; env NV_VERBOSE=1 'make' -j16 NV_EXCLUDE_BUILD_MODULES='' KERNEL_UNAME=5.3.0-26-generic IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE=1 IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 SYSSRC=/lib/modules/5.3.0-26-generic/build LD=/usr/bin/ld.bfd modules......(bad exit status: 2)
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/nvidia-kernel-source-390.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.3.0-26-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.116/build/make.log for more information.
   ...done.

Build log attached.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This probably needs another patch:
https://gist.github.com/wheresvic/1e526c3cd937414661ce6be7c5e4667d

and eventually also
https://gist.github.com/wheresvic/a118420b9592088ea23c7414e7f2d676

(Source: https://smalldata.tech/blog/2019/11/14/compiling-the-nvidia-415.27-drivers-on-linux-kernel-5.x )

Hello Ken, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Adding the patch from https://gist.github.com/wheresvic/1e526c3cd937414661ce6be7c5e4667d worked. I managed to build and install the driver.

Patch https://gist.github.com/wheresvic/a118420b9592088ea23c7414e7f2d676 resulted in failed build.

Problem fixed for me with 390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 from bionic-proposed

All good here too with 390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 - 390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/dkms_nvidia/patches/buildfix_kernel_5.3.patch,
    debian/templates/dkms_nvidia.conf.in:
    - Fix build failure with Linux 5.3 (LP: #1851162).

nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/dkms_nvidia/patches/buildfix_kernel_5.2.patch,
    debian/templates/dkms_nvidia.conf.in:
    - Fix build failure again Linux 5.3 (LP: #1851162).

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:24:10 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Confirming that updated drivers work on kernel 5.3.0-26. Thanks a million!

These are not working on 5.3.0-28

I took the kernel update to 5.3.0-28.30~18.04.1 as well as the 390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 nvidia driver updaate. The driver built fine, and its running fine on 5.3.0-28 for me.

@Bill: which driver doesn't work for you with 5.3.0-28?

@Alberto 390.116

There is more info on a duplicate bug but for brevity this is a T430 using NVIDIA GF108M [NVS 5400M]

This bug is not fixed. I have upgraded from 19.10 to 20.04 LTS

I had installed nvidia-driver-440, but due to this bug I downgraded to nvidia-driver-390. I get exactly the same issue. All my packages are up-to-date.

The output:

DKMS make.log for nvidia-390.132 for kernel 5.4.0-29-generic (x86_64)
vr 15 mei 2020 6:05:27 CEST
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-29-generic'
arch/x86/Makefile:147: CONFIG_X86_X32 enabled but no binutils support
make[1]: /usr/bin/gcc: Command not found
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo >&2; \
echo >&2 " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo >&2 " include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \
echo >&2 ; \
/bin/false)
make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.132/build \
single-build= \
need-builtin=1 need-modorder=1
/bin/sh: 1: cc: not found

The C compiler '/usr/bin/gcc' does not appear to be able to
create object files. Please make sure you have
your Linux distribution's libc development package
installed and that '/usr/bin/gcc' is a valid C compiler
name.

*** Failed CC sanity check. Bailing out! ***

make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.132/build/Kbuild:192: cc_sanity_check] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1719: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.132/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-29-generic'
make: *** [Makefile:81: modules] Error 2

Robert,

That is bug 1501972, not this one.

Aha, thanks Daniel.