[Bug 948047] [NEW] Old nVidia 173 constantly shows up as "distribution upgrade"

[Rainer Rohde]

Public bug reported:

The old nVidia 173 driver sits inside the upgrade manager window as
distribution upgrade, but it will never install because I opted to only
install "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release
updates)(version current-updates) from the "Additional Driver"
application.

Because of the nVdia 173 driver being always shown in update manager,
the systems menu keeps showing that "Updates are available", even though
there aren't any real new packages waiting to be installed.

Is there any way to remove the reference to the old driver from the
update manager?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar  6 08:15:36 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
 com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1331042820
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 516
 com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-02 (4 days ago)

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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Title:
  Old nVidia 173 constantly shows up as "distribution upgrade"

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The old nVidia 173 driver sits inside the upgrade manager window as
  distribution upgrade, but it will never install because I opted to
  only install "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release
  updates)(version current-updates) from the "Additional Driver"
  application.

  Because of the nVdia 173 driver being always shown in update manager,
  the systems menu keeps showing that "Updates are available", even
  though there aren't any real new packages waiting to be installed.

  Is there any way to remove the reference to the old driver from the
  update manager?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.156.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
  ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Mar  6 08:15:36 2012
  GsettingsChanges:
   com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
   com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1331042820
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 516
   com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-02 (4 days ago)

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