0006255: Kernel update error when installing NVIDIA driver

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006255	Kali Linux	Kali Package Bug	public	2020-04-03 06:41	2025-07-14 09:38

Reporter	mengya	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	2020.1

Summary	0006255: Kernel update error when installing NVIDIA driver
Description	The notebook is dell-3542 kali kernel Linux mengya 5.4.0-kali4-amd64 # 1 SMP Debian 5.4.19-1kali1 (2020-02-17) x86_64 GNU / Linux Both installation and uninstallation will cause errors when updating the kernel The following figure is the error during uninstall
Steps To Reproduce	Preconditions: dell-3542 laptop (other computers not tested) without NVIDIA graphics driver installed 1.sudo apt updtae 2.sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit
Attached Files	2020-04-03 14-29-41 的屏幕截图.png (670,069 bytes)

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-04-03 06:41	mengya	New Issue
2020-04-03 06:41	mengya	File Added: 2020-04-03 14-29-41 的屏幕截图.png
2020-04-03 09:27	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2020-04-03 09:27	rhertzog	Status	new => closed
2020-04-03 09:27	rhertzog	Resolution	open => no change required
2020-04-03 09:27	rhertzog	Note Added: 0012578
2025-07-14 09:38	g0tmi1k	Severity	crash => minor

rhertzog 2020-04-03 09:27 administrator ~0012578	I don't see any error in your screenshot. I see some warnings about possible missing firmwares but they are not errors and nothing is broken. Please report real bugs only. Have a look at https://kali.training/chapter-6/filing-a-good-bug-report/ to learn more about our expectations.