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

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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
>>

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Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-12 19:30 +0200
  Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-12 19:50 +0200
    Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-12 20:20 +0200
      Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-12 20:30 +0200
        Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-12 20:40 +0200
          Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-12 20:50 +0200
            Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-12 21:00 +0200
              Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-12 21:10 +0200
            Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 18:50 +0200
              Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-13 18:50 +0200
                Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 19:10 +0200
              Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 19:00 +0200
              Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-13 19:00 +0200
        Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 18:40 +0200
  Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-13 19:10 +0200
    Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-13 19:20 +0200
    Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 19:30 +0200
      Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 19:40 +0200
      Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-13 19:40 +0200
        Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 19:50 +0200
    Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia  packages related) Aquarius <aquarius@tutanota.de> - 2017-04-13 19:40 +0200
  Re: Problem after dist-upgrade and dpkg install -f (Probably nvidia packages related) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-04-13 19:10 +0200

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