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Ugh. I rebooted my machine last week and VirtualBox and CUDA broke because Ubuntu upgraded the kernel. When can we have a system that updates itself without bre

• throwawaygulf 6y ago
  >When can we have a system that updates itself without breaking stuff? We did, it was called CentOS.
  • tluyben2 6y ago
    Anecdotal but we left centos for debian because it kept failing after kernel upgrades (machine would not come back / kernel hang: we had it so many times that we migrated completely off it): never had that issue with debian (or ubuntu) and I use both fulltime on servers and desktops (laptops). We had other issues with broken deps with yum as well. I think GPUs might be a different story but we have not needed those beyond the trivial usage, and those were not discrete.
    • colechristensen 6y ago
      Were you using funny third party repositories?
      • tluyben2 6y ago
        Nope, then it would be logical. Especially on servers it was all standard stuff.
• dTal 6y ago
  You probably installed those things with some third-party installer, instead of through the package manager. You can't expect Ubuntu to know about that. The only way it could not break those things is by never upgrading the kernel.
  • dheera 6y ago
    I don't think that should be an excuse for things not working, especially when the third party installer is NVIDIA's official installer. Macs and Windows don't break when you install NVIDIA official drivers. Ubuntu breaks because nvidia cuda-10.0 installs nvidia-450 which fights with Ubuntu which wants to install nvidia-460 with the latest kernel, which also breaks virtualbox's official repo IN the Ubuntu repo. So either the kernel breaks or cuda and virtualbox breaks. In any case, I as a user shouldn't have to worry about stupid things like this.