package nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 failed to install/upgrade: nvidia-current kernel module failed to build (nv.c:417: error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer)

Confirmed by dozens of duplicates, with new duplicates every day or two.

The root cause of this bug is the final removal of BKL from the Linux kernel:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.36.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=b19dd42faf413b4705d4adb38521e82d73fa4249

The change first appeared in kernel 2.6.36 and possibly later versions of ubuntu kernel 2.6.35.

NVIDIA have implemented a fix in their later driver versions:
Users of nvidia-96 need version 96.43.19 or later.
Users of nvidia-current need version 260.19.06 or later.

260.19.06 really does seem to be the earliest instance of the fix I can find for nvidia-current. It seems the fix was never implemented in 195.*

Users of Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) might find success if they can install the maverick version 260.19.06:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/nvidia-current

Further details:
nvidia-96 is already fixed in maverick-updates and natty. It is not yet fixed in lucid.
nvidia-current is already fixed in maverick and natty. It is not yet fixed in lucid.

Alternatively, Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) users could just downgrade to the standard lucid kernel, which is 2.6.32.something. That will fix the bug too, and allow you to install nvidia-*. Upgrading the kernel beyond what lucid is meant to have is what triggers this bug in the first place.

Consegui resolver o problema após a reinstalação do Ubuntu. O problema
havia ocorrido devido a instalação do driver não ter sido completada e a
atualização dos pacotes ter ocorrido em paralelo, provavelmente gerou
alguma incompatibilidade.

Muito Obrigado.
Jaster

Em Seg, 2011-06-13 às 08:44 +0000, Daniel van Vugt escreveu:
> Alternatively, Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) users could just downgrade to the
> standard lucid kernel, which is 2.6.32.something. That will fix the bug
> too, and allow you to install nvidia-*. Upgrading the kernel beyond what
> lucid is meant to have is what triggers this bug in the first place.
>

Looks like this needs the nvidia-2.6.36-ioctl.patch patch added for these packages.

@Alberto, if this is correct could you include backports of the patch to lucid as well? Would be nice to also update it in x-updates and perhaps xorg-edgers if it isn't already.

nvidia-2.6.36-ioctl.patch is actually slightly wrong, but will still kind of work.

I have now proposed a cleaner solution. If accepted for nvidia-graphics-drivers, then I'm happy to do the same for -96 too.

Alberto: are you happy to have this patch in Lucid? The merge request¹ looks good, and given that we've got the LTS-backport kernels in the archive it might be worthwhile to build against them if it's easy enough.

¹: https://code.launchpad.net/~vanvugt/ubuntu/lucid/nvidia-graphics-drivers/fix-627022/+merge/66255

The LTS-backport kernels provide a good use case for adding the patch. Please go on with the upload.

I also reported a pretty much duplicate issue with this in #836349 ... looks like this has been ongoing for a while and is stuck on kernel API call changes... I was trying to upgrade to Ubuntu's kernel 2.6.38-10 (really need 2.6.39 as that is known to have USB 3.0 **HUB** support 38-10 might have backported that but I don't know).. I guess the only way to go is to skip to something not LTS that might have a newer / new enough kernel. YES the current kernel I have has xHCI support, and my two hard drives plug in and work (fast) but can't add a third USB 3.0 drive without a USB 3.0 hub and that support isn't added until 2.6.39 . So for me now, it's have USB 3.0 Hub support for nVidia OpenGL (and dual display) support..

Your patience is appreciated. A fix is ready and waiting, but it has been waiting for review by other developers for about 2 months.

Also note, doing a distribution upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 or later will also resolve this bug.

Here is the debdiff for nvidia-graphics-drivers (lucid)

And here is the debdiff for nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (lucid)

But are the debdiffs really necessary since they're identical to the above merge proposals??

Pushed both to -proposed, once accepted by the SRU team you'll be asked to test them.

Thanks for contributing these.

All symptoms of problem went away after recent update.
Thanks; Elling

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Stéphane Graber <email address hidden>wrote:

> Pushed both to -proposed, once accepted by the SRU team you'll be asked
> to test them.
>
> Thanks for contributing these.
>
> ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (Ubuntu Lucid)
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>
> ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Lucid)
> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (796091).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627022
>
> Title:
> package nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 failed to
> install/upgrade: nvidia-current kernel module failed to build
> (nv.c:417: error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer)
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” source package in Lucid:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” source package in Lucid:
> Fix Committed
> Status in Gentoo Linux:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> IMPACT:
>
> The NVIDIA driver fails to build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS if you have
> upgraded your kernel to >= 2.6.36. The offending kernel change was
> commit b19dd42faf413b4705d4adb38521e82d73fa4249 in 2.6.36 stable.
>
>
> TEST CASE:
>
> Starting with a clean Ubuntu 10.04 installation...
> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa && sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-backport-natty
> linux-headers-generic-lts-backport-natty
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
> Installation of nvidia-current will fail for the newer kernel. Now to
> verify it's the same error at nv.c:417:
> tail /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/*/build/make.log
> ("error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer")
>
>
> FIX:
>
> ifdef out the deprecated structure field, which is no longer present
> in Linux kernels >= 2.6.36. NVIDIA have already implemented a similar
> fix upstream, apparently in driver version ~260.19.06 onward.
>
>
> NOTES:
>
> This seems to be the same bug in both the 96 and 195 series nvidia
> drivers:
> nv.c:244 (nvidia-96 96.43.17-0ubuntu1) == nv.c:417 (nvidia-current
> 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04)
>
>
> REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
>
> Low. We are only #ifdef'ing out a structure member that no longer
> exists. Its replacement is already present in both newer and older
> kernels, and is used (redundantly) by the NVIDIA driver source because
> the removal of the 'ioctl' field had been planned for a long time.
>
>
> ORIGINAL BUG REPORT:
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.25~lucid1-generic 2.6.35.3
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Aug 30 15:20:49 2010
> ErrorMessage: nvidia-current kernel module failed to build
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
> (20100427.1)
> Lsusb:
> ...

Hello martyfelker, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Hello martyfelker, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Verification done using the test case in the description. I downloaded the (i386) packages directly:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/nvidia-current/195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/nvidia-96/96.43.17-0ubuntu1.1

However this was done in a VM as I no longer have nvidia hardware. Someone with actual nvidia hardware needs to test the packages too.

ok, so I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04.1 64bit (added the pre-released updates
source) and did the all the normal updates, including the 2.6.32-34-generic
kernel upgrade. then I installed the recommended hardware drivers from the
GUI. Everything seemed to work perfectly fine the way a casual user might do
it. It installed the 195.36.24 nvidia drivers for my gts 250 nvidia. If you
need any more info, tell me.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden> wrote:

> Verification done using the test case in the description. I downloaded the
> (i386) packages directly:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/nvidia-current/195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/nvidia-96/96.43.17-0ubuntu1.1
>
> However this was done in a VM as I no longer have nvidia hardware.
> Someone with actual nvidia hardware needs to test the packages too.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (787838).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627022
>
> Title:
> package nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 failed to
> install/upgrade: nvidia-current kernel module failed to build
> (nv.c:417: error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer)
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” source package in Lucid:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” source package in Lucid:
> Fix Committed
> Status in Gentoo Linux:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> IMPACT:
>
> The NVIDIA driver fails to build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS if you have
> upgraded your kernel to >= 2.6.36. The offending kernel change was
> commit b19dd42faf413b4705d4adb38521e82d73fa4249 in 2.6.36 stable.
>
>
> TEST CASE:
>
> Starting with a clean Ubuntu 10.04 installation...
> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa && sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-backport-natty
> linux-headers-generic-lts-backport-natty
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
> Installation of nvidia-current will fail for the newer kernel. Now to
> verify it's the same error at nv.c:417:
> tail /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/*/build/make.log
> ("error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer")
>
>
> FIX:
>
> ifdef out the deprecated structure field, which is no longer present
> in Linux kernels >= 2.6.36. NVIDIA have already implemented a similar
> fix upstream, apparently in driver version ~260.19.06 onward.
>
>
> NOTES:
>
> This seems to be the same bug in both the 96 and 195 series nvidia
> drivers:
> nv.c:244 (nvidia-96 96.43.17-0ubuntu1) == nv.c:417 (nvidia-current
> 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04)
>
>
> REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
>
> Low. We are only #ifdef'ing out a structure member that no longer
> exists. Its replacement is already present in both newer and older
> kernels, and is used (redundantly) by the NVIDIA driver source because
> the removal of the 'ioctl' field had been planned for a long time.
>
>
> ORIGINAL BUG REPORT:
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Pac...

Thanks Zerin.

Could you please run this command so we can verify the package version you're using?

    dpkg -l | grep nvidia

And then attach the output to this bug?

zerin@zerin-nvidiatest:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-173-modaliases 173.14.22-0ubuntu11 Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive
ii nvidia-96-modaliases 96.43.17-0ubuntu1.1 Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive
ii nvidia-common 0.2.23 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and
ii nvidia-current-modaliases 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive
ii nvidia-settings 195.36.08-0ubuntu2 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driv

Here you go, I was also wondering if i need to be on the 2.6.36 kernel for this confirmation to be valid?

Thanks. Verification done using Nvidia GTS 250 hardware.

I have already tested the fix with kernel 2.6.36 but if you could too then that would be helpful.

I am in the habit of installing all updates from Canonical as soon as
available, and noted some time ago that the problem no longer seemed to
exist after a routine update. Unfortunately I did not note the date or time
of the update that did the trick.

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Zerin Sakech <email address hidden>wrote:

> ok, so I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04.1 64bit (added the pre-released updates
> source) and did the all the normal updates, including the 2.6.32-34-generic
> kernel upgrade. then I installed the recommended hardware drivers from the
> GUI. Everything seemed to work perfectly fine the way a casual user might
> do
> it. It installed the 195.36.24 nvidia drivers for my gts 250 nvidia. If you
> need any more info, tell me.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > Verification done using the test case in the description. I downloaded
> the
> > (i386) packages directly:
> >
> >
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/nvidia-current/195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.1
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/nvidia-96/96.43.17-0ubuntu1.1
> >
> > However this was done in a VM as I no longer have nvidia hardware.
> > Someone with actual nvidia hardware needs to test the packages too.
> >
> > --
> > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> > duplicate bug report (787838).
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627022
> >
> > Title:
> > package nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 failed to
> > install/upgrade: nvidia-current kernel module failed to build
> > (nv.c:417: error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer)
> >
> > Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
> > In Progress
> > Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” package in Ubuntu:
> > In Progress
> > Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” source package in Lucid:
> > Fix Committed
> > Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-96” source package in Lucid:
> > Fix Committed
> > Status in Gentoo Linux:
> > Fix Released
> >
> > Bug description:
> > IMPACT:
> >
> > The NVIDIA driver fails to build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS if you have
> > upgraded your kernel to >= 2.6.36. The offending kernel change was
> > commit b19dd42faf413b4705d4adb38521e82d73fa4249 in 2.6.36 stable.
> >
> >
> > TEST CASE:
> >
> > Starting with a clean Ubuntu 10.04 installation...
> > sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa && sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-backport-natty
> > linux-headers-generic-lts-backport-natty
> > sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
> > Installation of nvidia-current will fail for the newer kernel. Now to
> > verify it's the same error at nv.c:417:
> > tail /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/*/build/make.log
> > ("error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer")
> >
> >
> > FIX:
> >
> > ifdef out the deprecated structure field, which is no longer present
> > in Linux kernels >= 2.6.36. NVIDIA have already implemented a similar
> > fix upstream, apparently in driver version ~260.19.06 onward.
> >
> >
> > NOTES:
> >
> > This seems to be the same bug in both the 96 and 195 series nvidia
> > drivers:
> > nv.c:244 (nvid...

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers - 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.1

---------------
nvidia-graphics-drivers (195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix nv.c build failure with kernels >= 2.6.36 (LP: #627022)
 -- Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:48:22 +0800

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 - 96.43.17-0ubuntu1.1

---------------
nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 (96.43.17-0ubuntu1.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix nv.c build failure with kernels >= 2.6.36 (LP: #627022)
 -- Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:08:13 +0800