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[lionel giraudeau <1378949@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1369398 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1369398

Sorry, logs partially in French (but important informations are not) :

lionel@osiris:~$ dpkg -l |grep nvidia
rH  nvidia-331                                  331.89-0ubuntu5                          amd64        NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.89

lionel@osiris:~$ sudo aptitude remove --purge nvidia-331 nvidia-libopencl1-331 nvidia-opencl-icd-331
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :                   
  nvidia-331 
0 paquets mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de télécharger 0 o d'archives. Après dépaquetage, 182 Mo seront libérés.
(Lecture de la base de données... 278807 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Suppression de nvidia-331 (331.89-0ubuntu5) ...
stop: Unknown instance: 
userdel: user nvidia-persistenced is currently used by process 2457
dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet nvidia-331 (--remove) :
 le sous-processus script post-removal installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 8
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 nvidia-331
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Impossible d'effectuer l'opération demandée sur le paquet. Essai de récupération :
                                                        
lionel@osiris:~$ ps -ef |grep 2457
nvidia-+  2457     1  0 09:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --user nvidia-persistenced
lionel@osiris:~$ sudo kill 2457
lionel@osiris:~$ ps -ef |grep 2457
lionel    8363  7980  0 09:46 pts/4    00:00:00 grep 2457
lionel@osiris:~$ sudo aptitude remove --purge nvidia-331 nvidia-libopencl1-331 nvidia-opencl-icd-331
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :                   
  nvidia-331 
0 paquets mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de télécharger 0 o d'archives. Après dépaquetage, 182 Mo seront libérés.
(Lecture de la base de données... 278805 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Suppression de nvidia-331 (331.89-0ubuntu5) ...
stop: Unknown instance: 
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-24-generic
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour libc-bin (2.19-10ubuntu2) ...
                                                        
lionel@osiris:~$

-- Re-install Nvidia drivers through graphical "Prorpietary Drivers" in
settings --

Then reboot : Fixed

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Title:
  package nvidia-331 331.89-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade:
  subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 8

Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-331” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-331-updates” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Tried to switch to using NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.89 from
  nvidia-331-updates (proprietary)

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: nvidia-331 331.89-0ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-21.28-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-21-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct  8 12:05:05 2014
  DuplicateSignature: package:nvidia-331:331.89-0ubuntu5:subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 8
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 8
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-02 (919 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-331
  Title: package nvidia-331 331.89-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 8
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.modprobe.d.nvidia.331.hybrid.conf: [deleted]

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