Hi, I need some desperate help here! I am trying to fix the Nvidia driver with version 435.21 on my Ubuntu 18.04 system, yet have trouble trying to link the kernel to the nvidia driver: After running sudo apt install --reinstall linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic I got Reading package lists... Done…

I noticed that the secure boot was enabled on my system previously, so I have disabled it and redo the whole reinstallation procedure, with no luck still. Attached my new nvidia-bug-report.log nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (102.6 KB)

@generix Hi, could you please take a look at my issue, thanks a bunch in advance!

I seem to be having the same issue for 5.4.0-42-generic on Ubuntu18.04 for nvidia-driver-435. Attached is my bug report log. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (136.2 KB)

Finally fixed this. I really couldn’t nvidia-driver-435 to work on this kernel version so i searched for others who have an issue and found that 440 worked for some. So I did the following steps: sudo apt-get autoremove --purge nvidia-* sudo apt-get autoremove --purge nvidia-driver-435 sudo apt-g…

I just switched back to the old kernel 5.3.0-62-generic instead of 5.4.0.xxx by editing /etc/default/grub to let me choose a kernel on startup. It also works and one never needs a kernel update anyway. From experience: Reinstalling / purging nvidia-drivers might lead to the infamous ubuntu login l…

Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic on Ubuntu18.04. NVIDIA-SMI failed (nvidia-driver-435)

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nuf July 27, 2020, 1:48pm 5

I’ve had a similar problem on the 5.4.0 kernel and steps from this comment helped.

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Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic on Ubuntu18.04. NVIDIA-SMI failed (nvidia-driver-435)

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