Bug#1030981: nvidia-kernel-dkms: Depends on missing firmware-nvidia-gsp-525.85.12

Scott Tripp

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Feb 10, 2023, 2:10:05 AM2/10/23

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Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
Version: 525.85.12-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: kscott...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I cannot install nvidia-driver, as that depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms
(this package), which in turn depends on firmware-nvidia-gsp-525.85.12,
which is missing.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-kernel-dkms : Depends: firmware-nvidia-gsp (= 525.85.12) but it is not installable or
firmware-nvidia-gsp-525.85.12 but it is not installable

Thanks,
Scott

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-dkms depends on:
ii dkms 3.0.10-5
pn firmware-nvidia-gsp | firmware-nvidia-gsp-525.85.12 <none>
pn nvidia-installer-cleanup <none>
pn nvidia-kernel-support--v1 <none>

Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-dkms recommends:
pn nvidia-driver | libcuda1 <none>

nvidia-kernel-dkms suggests no packages.

Andreas Beckmann

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Feb 10, 2023, 3:10:05 AM2/10/23

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On 10/02/2023 08.04, Scott Tripp wrote:
> I cannot install nvidia-driver, as that depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms
> (this package), which in turn depends on firmware-nvidia-gsp-525.85.12,
> which is missing.

Please enable the new non-free-firmware archive section in addition to
non-free in your apt sources configuration.

@KiBi: Is there some announcement about non-free-firmware I could refer
to? Should apt (or some other package) show a debconf warning (once) if
it finds bookworm/testing/unstable/sid/experimental with non-free but
not non-free-firmware enabled in sources.list[.d]? Enabling that
automatically in this case would be not trivial ...

Andreas

Floris Renaud

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Feb 10, 2023, 3:10:05 AM2/10/23

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On vrijdag 10 februari 2023 08:04:56 (+01:00), Scott Tripp wrote:

> Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
> Version: 525.85.12-1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: kscott...@gmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I cannot install nvidia-driver, as that depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms
> (this package), which in turn depends on firmware-nvidia-gsp-525.85.12,
> which is missing.
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> nvidia-kernel-dkms : Depends: firmware-nvidia-gsp (= 525.85.12) but it
is not installable or
> firmware-nvidia-gsp-525.85.12 but it is
not installable
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>

The firmware-nvidia-gsp package is moved from non-free to non-free-firmware

Add the non-free-firmware repository and try again
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split

Floris

Cyril Brulebois

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Feb 10, 2023, 3:20:04 AM2/10/23

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Andreas Beckmann <an...@debian.org> (2023-02-10):

> Please enable the new non-free-firmware archive section in addition to
> non-free in your apt sources configuration.
>
> @KiBi: Is there some announcement about non-free-firmware I could
> refer to? Should apt (or some other package) show a debconf warning
> (once) if it finds bookworm/testing/unstable/sid/experimental with
> non-free but not non-free-firmware enabled in sources.list[.d]?
> Enabling that automatically in this case would be not trivial ...

I've spent my time bootstrapping stuff and figuring out what others
wanted to do, so there's no official announcement yet. See those merge
requests for ongoing work:
- https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/282#note_378073
- https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/138

Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (ki...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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K. Scott Tripp

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Feb 10, 2023, 1:40:04 PM2/10/23

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Thanks everyone,

I had not seen those bookworm release notes yet, so enabling non-free-firmware solved the problem.

--Scott

alberto fuentes

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Feb 25, 2023, 8:00:04 AM2/25/23

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A note in the NEWS file would had been great

I used update breakage + google to find out about this ;)