SOLVED pacman update for nvidia drivers failed - nvidia-lts

stevendupuis · 2016-09-08 21:11:55

I ran an update and encountered the following from pacman:

[arch8:root] /etc
4035 20160908 165746 # pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 119.7 KiB 527K/s 00:00 [#################################] 100%
extra 1760.8 KiB 1048K/s 00:02 [#################################] 100%
community 3.6 MiB 1405K/s 00:03 [#################################] 100%
multilib 173.0 KiB 1663K/s 00:00 [#################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nvidia-lts: installing nvidia-utils (370.28-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=370.23'
[arch8:root] /etc
4036 20160908 165801 #

I put the nvidia, nvidia-libgl and nvidia-utils on ignore in pacman.conf so I could do the rest of the upgrade,
which included an update to linux-lts. I still have a working system, but with no nvidia updates.

How can this be addressed?

Last edited by stevendupuis (2016-09-22 14:50:56)

jasonwryan · 2016-09-08 21:14:06

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to Pacman forum...

a2r · 2016-09-10 14:16:03

Had the same issue.
I had linux, linux-lts, nvidia and nvidia-lts installed. I removed the lts'es and then the upgrade went through. Pacman said something about a dependency cycle between nvidia and nvidia-utils.
I also cannot reinstall nvidia-lts at the moment, also because of the dependencies.

stevendupuis · 2016-09-10 14:55:06

I have two kernels as well. I believe that nvidia-lts is the updated code for the lts kernel. I just added the probematic packages to IgnorePkg in pacman.conf for now until the packages get fixed.

Ketchup901 · 2016-09-11 05:17:55

$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for adam: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                             119,7 KiB  2,92M/s 00:00 [##########################################] 100%
 extra                                           1760,1 KiB  3,31M/s 00:01 [##########################################] 100%
 community                                          3,6 MiB  3,52M/s 00:01 [##########################################] 100%
 multilib                                         172,7 KiB  4,22M/s 00:00 [##########################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nvidia-lts: installing nvidia-utils (370.28-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=370.23'

Installing a new version of the package apparently breaks a dependency which is the old version of the package?

jasonwryan · 2016-09-11 05:29:24

Please search before posting.

Merging with existing thread...

theta · 2016-09-11 15:39:59

My current system is:

[theta@boolean-pc ~]$ uname -a
Linux boolean-pc 4.4.19-1-lts #1 SMP Sat Aug 20 21:58:36 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

While trying to update my system I get the following:

[theta@boolean-pc ~]$ yaourt -Syyu
[sudo] password for theta: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                     119.7 KiB   153K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 extra                   1760.9 KiB   212K/s 00:08 [######################] 100%
 community                  3.6 MiB   750K/s 00:05 [######################] 100%
 multilib                 172.6 KiB  1918K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nvidia-lts: installing nvidia-utils (370.28-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=370.23'

I usually update my system once in a month only due to time constraints. Thus I have been using the nvidia-lts since past 1 year and am somewhat out of touch with my arch system.
Any suggestions for working around this are welcome?

Last edited by theta (2016-09-11 15:40:50)

WorMzy · 2016-09-11 15:47:11

Looks like nvidia-utils got updated in the stable repositories, but nvidia-lts didn't (it's still in testing). Open a bug report.

Mod note: not an installation issue, moving to upgrade issues.

jasonwryan · 2016-09-11 16:28:36

Merging with the existing thread...

theta · 2016-09-11 17:10:24

jasonwryan wrote:

Please search before posting.
Merging with existing thread...

My apologies. I did attempt to search but somehow this thread didn't come up.

zerophase · 2016-09-12 08:53:23

You can install NVidia-dkms and shouldn't run into the issue as frequently.

stevendupuis · 2016-09-22 14:47:58

It would appear that the nvidia drriver package(s) have been fixed and updated.

This one is SOLVED/CLOSED.

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#1 2016-09-08 21:11:55

SOLVED pacman update for nvidia drivers failed - nvidia-lts

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