[Wolves] Fwd: Ubuntu 14.04 Nvidia upgrade woes

[Dave]

Hi Andy,
It's been a while since I posted anything on the Wolves list!
I had the same issue with the Sony Vaio VGC-V2M I still have, but I no
longer use it, because the 331 drivers are so terrible in both Unity and
GNOME 3, I went and purchased a new PC, with a GTX-650 GPU by Nvidia,
and now I run the GTX-750ti which runs as sweet as a nut, and so does
the GTX-650, but I do have this said GPU up for grabs.

Have you tried the PPA by XSWAT? I know that they keep the legacy
drivers on there.
 
Dave

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On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 21:43 +0100, Andy Wootton wrote:
> Try again
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message -------- 
>                           Subject: 
> Ubuntu 14.04 Nvidia upgrade woes
>                              Date: 
> Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:25:13 +0100
>                              From: 
> Andy Wootton
> <andy.wootton at bcs.org.uk>
>                                To: 
> Wolverhampton Linux User Group
> <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> 
> 
> My test upgrade to 14.04 on my Eee PC went without any serious issues, 
> so I decided to press ahead with a Revo 3600 that I use regularly as my 
> 'quick web browse' box. BUT it has an Nvidia card. The last 2 Ubuntu 
> updates have unhelpfully ignored my preference for Nvidia's proprietary 
> binary drivers that 'just work' by installing the Nvidia drivers that 
> "don't". I worked this out last time but this time something has gone 
> horribly wrong. I tried to install the drivers from the command line but 
> when I tried to reboot, I get only a desktop on which I can create 
> folders or text files to my hearts content - but nothing else. I can 
> only get a command line with <CTRL>/<ALT>/<F1> back to the console.
> 
> I seem to have a half-installed nvidia-331 that I can't remove. I get
> "stop: Unknown instance:
> userdel: existing lock file /etc/subuid.lock without a PID
> userdel: cannot lock /etc/subuid: try again later." from aptget remove 
> and I can't install because it already 'is'.
> 
> then it says the post-removal script returns error exit status 16, which 
> I take to be due to the lock and dpkg returns 1.
> I've tried every apt* fix or purge command I know but I don't know much.
> 
> Does anyone know an appropriate spell for such an occasion?
> 
> Cheers,
> Woo
> 
> 
> 
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