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[Bryce Harrington <893760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm marking this critical just because bug #876499 causes -173 to be the
default nvidia driver installed, which makes this breakage pretty
noticeable when selecting '3rd party sources'.  If that bug is resolved,
this bug can be reduced in importance.

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 876499
   Incorrect Nvidia driver installed by checking 3rd party box

** Description changed:

  Fresh install of Precise on an Intel box that had oneiric installed
  previously.  I left '3rd party sources' checked, completed the install,
  rebooted, and found myself at the console rather than in a graphical
  session.
  
  Logging into the console and poking around, it appears dkms failed to
  build the nvidia drivers for some reason.  I rebooted in case it was
  just a race condition, but got the same failure, then filed this bug
  report from the console.
  
  make.txt just says:
  
  *** Unable to determine the target kernel version. ***
  
  So presumably the nvidia driver never got built.
+ 
+ Note, -173 should not have been selected for this hardware (nvidia-
+ current should have), but this is covered in bug #876499.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: nvidia-current (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.3-generic-pae 3.1.0
  Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  Date: Tue Nov 22 12:50:06 2011
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: precise
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus: nvidia-173, 173.14.30: added
  GraphicsCard:
   Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0504]
   nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GX2] [10de:0604] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0504]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111121)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-2-generic-pae root=UUID=ef816a4c-ffd1-4f49-8e13-b4b96bccdda1 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/07/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
  dmi.bios.version: SOX5810J.86A.0604.2008.0507.1808
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: DX58SO
  dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
  dmi.board.version: AAE29331-202
  dmi.chassis.type: 2
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrSOX5810J.86A.0604.2008.0507.1808:bd05/07/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDX58SO:rvrAAE29331-202:cvn:ct2:cvr:
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu7
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.27-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu4
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

** Summary changed:

- Could not start graphical session by checking 3rd party box; nvidia kernel driver failed to build 
+ nvidia-173 kernel driver failed to build: Unable to determine the target kernel version

** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Alberto Milone (albertomilone)

** Package changed: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) => nvidia-graphics-
drivers-173 (Ubuntu)

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