Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related)

[Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de>]

Hi,

I tried to find out X I have and it seemed to be lightdm. So I killed that proces but only my GUI was gone.
Find and Locate did not find nvidia.ko

So this did not work for me.

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12. Apr 2017 20:26 by hans.ullrich@loop.de:

> Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2017, 20:18:22 CEST schrieb Aquarius:
> Hmm, bad thing. Maybe you should remove kdm, gdm or whatever loginmanager you 
> are using out of the way, so it will not start after boot and force you into a 
> bad X.
>
> Then you can try dpkg-configure -a again.
>
> You can also try to delete nvidia.ko in the kernel libs, so it inhibits to 
> start nvidia-driver.
>
> Try then dpkg-reconfigure -a again. Maybe it is working now.
>
> You might try to deinstall the downloaded package with 
> dpkg -r nvidia-blabla.deb
>
> If this all fails, trigger me again, maybe I have some other ideas.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Hans
> > Thanks Hans.
> > I must add when shutting down I get a black screen with lots of text. The
> > system will not shut down. I have to press the powerbutton and hold it to
> > power it off. After starting up again I performed  apt-get --purge remove
> > nvidia-*
> > The output was:
> > root@debian:/home/piet# apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
> > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> > correct the problem.
> >
> > Well, it seems I would be running in circles then.
> > Any other idea?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Aquarius