On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:26:51 -0500
Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:

> When I try to do an upgrade, I'm told nvidia-persistenced is not configured. When I reinstall it I get:
>
> ...
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> Setting up nvidia-persistenced (460.32.03-1) ...
> Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
> nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript nvidia-persistenced, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing package nvidia-persistenced (--configure):
> installed nvidia-persistenced package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> nvidia-persistenced
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Setting up nvidia-persistenced (460.32.03-1) ...
> Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
> nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript nvidia-persistenced, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing package nvidia-persistenced (--configure):
> installed nvidia-persistenced package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> nvidia-persistenced
>

> I'm runing Chimaera with fluxbox but no desktop environment. I reinstalled xord and
> fluxbox. Syslog does not report an error.    

>
> $ lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 750] [8086:4c8a] (rev 04)
> 00:17.0 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:43d2] (rev 11)
>
> I ran # apt install -f
>
> I ran # aptitude reinstall nvidia-persistenced
> E: Internal Error, No file name for nvidia-persistenced:amd64
>
> Help would be much appreciated.
>

Hi,
if I recall correctly rebooting and

apt install --reinstall nvidia-persistenced

did help.

Ciao,
Tito