EDIT: I'm running Ubuntu 21.04 hirsute.
Since this morning, apt shows linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04 to be upgradable on my machine, but fails to actually install the update. Unfortunately, nvidia-smi also stopped working, so I suspect this might be related.
EDIT: Here's the output of sudo apt update:
$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease
Get:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease [115 kB]
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease
Get:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease [101 kB]
Fetched 216 kB in 0s (652 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
$ apt list --upgradable -a
Listing... Done
linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04/hirsute-updates,hirsute-security 5.11.0-34.36 amd64 [upgradable from: 5.11.0-31.33]
linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04/now 5.11.0-31.33 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 5.11.0-34.36]
Here's what I get when trying to force the update:
$ sudo apt install --only-upgrade linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
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:
linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04 : Depends: linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.11.0-34-generic (= 5.11.0-34.36) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: nvidia-kernel-common-470 (>= 470.63.01) but 470.57.02-0ubuntu0.21.04.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
So the problem seems to be that nvidia-kernel-common-470 version 470.63.01 hasn't made it to hirsute-updates yet.
EDIT: apt-cache policy gives me:
$ apt-cache policy linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04
linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-20.04:
Installed: 5.11.0-31.33
Candidate: 5.11.0-34.36
Version table:
5.11.0-34.36 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security/restricted amd64 Packages
*** 5.11.0-31.33 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy nvidia-kernel-common-470
nvidia-kernel-common-470:
Installed: 470.57.02-0ubuntu0.21.04.1
Candidate: 470.57.02-0ubuntu0.21.04.1
Version table:
*** 470.57.02-0ubuntu0.21.04.1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security/restricted amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
What's the safest way to proceed here? Should I wait for nvidia-kernel-common-470 to be bumped on hirsute-updates?
