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[Richard Elkins <richard.elkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am running Xubuntu 14.04.02 up-to-date and was plagued by 331.113 nvidia-related crashes.  After enabling repository 
trusty-proposed, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, and rebooting, I have no more nvidia issues.  Also, the unrelated proposed modules which were downloaded and applied have yielded no undesirable side effects. 

Hardware overview:
Zotac IONITX-F-E Mini-ITX motherboard
      * CPU Intel Atom 330 (1.6GHz, dual-core)
      * NVIDIA GeForce 9400 ("ION" version 1)
      * FSB 533 MHz
RAM 4GB
Video support:
      * Kernel module - nvidiafb
      * Xorg video driver - nvidia-340 (previously nvidia-331)

Thank you to all for this welcome fix.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1431753

Title:
  Nvidia binary driver FTBS due to DKMS layer violation

Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340-updates source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Filing this against the 340-updates version but possibly the same
  applies to older versions, too. The nvidia source package produces two
  individual dkms packages: nvidia-340-updates, nvidia-340-updates-uvm.
  The problem is that the DKMS build of the nvidia-uvm module runs
  compile steps inside the nvidia modules build directory. This is
  violating the DKMS assumption that each module can be build
  independently (there is no way of describing cross-modules
  dependencies and even more important, the autoinstall step after a new
  kernel is installed will run the modules build in parallel).

  Since nvidia and nvidia-uvm are very dependent on each other the right
  course of action seems to be to combine both sources in one DKMS
  module that produces two kernel modules (this is supported by DKMS).
  For the transition this resulting dkms package needs to have a
  breaks/replaces for the nvidia-uvm package.

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