![]() ![]() In short, SDI is a batch installer for pretty much every driver that exists for common hardware. In recent years it has saved me a huge amount of time searching manufacturers’ awful website driver pages, especially for legacy hardware. I wanted to spread the word about this handy open-source driver installation utility. Now it should still mention any packages you cant remove then switch to /var/lib/dpkg/info and find the files called. Then sudo apt-get autoremove followed by a sudo apt-get clean, and again a sudo apt-get remove -purge nvidia. Pressing Ctrl+ Alt+ F1, then start again by sudo apt-get remove -purge nvidia*įollowed by sudo dpkg -remove -force-all nvidia-opencl-icd-367` The way I approached it this morning by brute forcing a complete removal: After the upgrade is complete, to clean up run sudo touch /lib/systemd/system/var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mountĢ. You may work around this issue by running sudo touch /lib/systemd/system/var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount & sudo systemctl daemon-reloadīefore attempting to repeat the upgrade. If you still receive an error indicating Unit var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount not loaded. At this point, you can then run sudo systemctl reboot to reboot the system, which should return it to normal Upgrade to ~gpu16.04.6, which no longer contains the defective patch, Stopping X clears the unmount failure, allowing you to successfully Pressing Ctrl+ Alt+ F1, then stop your display manager using sudo systemctl stop, where is lightdm, gdm, sddm, or whichever other display manager you are using. To work around this issue, you may first switch to a text console by The clean way proposed to me by the launchpad team per e-mail: to fix this (I had the same troubles this morning) you have two ways:ġ. Install Nvidia's binary driver using sudo. If this still does not let you log back in (Typical error: Logins screen -> password has been entered, enter pressed -> goes back to login screen) try completely removing your Nvidia driver again from by switching into text console from the logscreen with Ctrl+ Alt+ F1, login with you account name and password, donwload the appropriate driver for your graphics card from here within console, stop lightdm: If this does not help, try to manually remove all old xorg configs sudo rm /etc/X11/nf* & sudo rm /etc/X11/nf and reinstall the driver again sudo apt install nvidia-367 -reinstall. This shall get your driver working again. Please go through all the steps and make sure to reboot after removing everything of NVIDIA via sudo apt purge nvidia* succeeded without issues and after reinstalling the driver via sudo apt install nvidia-367. Trying to manually uninstall this package ends with these errors:įollowing V ideonauth's answer below solves the issue. Sudo apt purge nvidia* to reinstall it clean afterwards.ĭoing this in recovery mode uninstalled all except the nvidia-opencl-icd-367 package which failed with the error above. I started the update just like every time, but it failed withįailed to get unit file state for var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mountĪfter rebooting, my graphics driver was broken and I was forced to go into recovery mode.Īs usually when my Nvidia driver breaks, I just uninstall it with I got an update dialogue today which stated that I can update my nvidia driver to 367.18 (~gpu16.04.6). ![]()
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