On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 11:25:48AM +0000, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2021-12-30 at 15:26 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > When I try to do an upgrade, I'm told nvidia-persistenced is not
> > configured. When I reinstall it I get:

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

> I had to deal with what may be the same problem on updating from Ascii
> to Beowulf.
>
> The problem I found is caused by the nvidia-persistenced init not
> checking for an existing running copy of nvidia-persistenced.
>
> i) if you don't use CUDA then you can simply get rid of nvidia-
> persistenced.

Marjorie, Thanks! I don't know how nvidia-persistenced got (partially)
installed, but see it is optional. Following your advice I simply
deleted it.

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Haines Brown