I failed to run nvidia-settings under my fresh kubuntu 20.04 installation

I try to run nvidia-settings under my fresh kubuntu installation
and selected 418 (proprietary) in “Settings”/“Driver manager” : https://prnt.sc/8wPVX8vBiFd_

But I got errors with command :

$ nvidia-settings                   

(process:58464): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:47:06.107: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded


ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system


(nvidia-settings:58464): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 07:47:07.347: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: 07:47:07.352: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 07:47:07.352: PRIME: is it supported? no

I tried and failed to install nvidia-prime :

$ sudo apt-get install  nvidia-prime
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-prime is already the newest version (0.8.16~0.20.04.2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_TIME = "en_001.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_ADDRESS = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.13.0-41-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb6
I: (UUID=28ee0d89-a0cc-45ab-bb0c-aeaee8072afa)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block 
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.13.0-41-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Searching in net I found a possible decision with :

# apt-get auto-remove && apt-get clean && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_TIME = "en_001.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_ADDRESS = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "uk_UA.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.7) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.13.0-41-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb6
I: (UUID=28ee0d89-a0cc-45ab-bb0c-aeaee8072afa)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
Error 24 : Write error : cannot write compressed block 
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 lz4 -9 -l 24
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-5.13.0-41-generic with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

But again error. Partitions of my OS:

# df -HT   
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev           devtmpfs  4.1G     0  4.1G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     826M  2.0M  824M   1% /run
/dev/sdb2      ext4       53G   15G   35G  31% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     4.2G  102M  4.1G   3% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     5.3M  4.1k  5.3M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     4.2G     0  4.2G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb7      ext4       30G  3.5G   25G  13% /var
/dev/sdb1      ext4      339M  234M   80M  75% /boot
/dev/loop0     squashfs  140M  140M     0 100% /snap/chromium/1993
/dev/sdb8      fuseblk   399G  132G  267G  34% /mnt/_work_sdb8
/dev/loop1     squashfs  132k  132k     0 100% /snap/bare/5
/dev/loop2     squashfs   47M   47M     0 100% /snap/snapd/15534
/dev/loop3     squashfs   66M   66M     0 100% /snap/core20/1434
/dev/loop4     squashfs  261M  261M     0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/99
/dev/loop5     squashfs   86M   86M     0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1534
/dev/sda1      fuseblk    65G   58G  7.2G  89% /mnt/Win_sda1
/dev/sda6      fuseblk   237G  122G  115G  52% /mnt/Work_sda6
/dev/sda8      fuseblk   628G  617G   12G  99% /mnt/Media_sda8
tmpfs          tmpfs     826M   17k  826M   1% /run/user/1000


# uname -a
Linux master-at-home 5.13.0-41-generic #46~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 13:16:21 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@master-at-home:/mnt/_work_sdb8/wwwroot/lar/BiCurrencies# 
root@master-at-home:/mnt/_work_sdb8/wwwroot/lar/BiCurrencies# lsb_release -d; uname -r; uname -i
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
5.13.0-41-generic
x86_64
root@master-at-home:/mnt/_work_sdb8/wwwroot/lar/BiCurrencies# 
root@master-at-home:/mnt/_work_sdb8/wwwroot/lar/BiCurrencies# plasmashell -v
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
plasmashell 5.18.8
root@master-at-home:/mnt/_work_sdb8/wwwroot/lar/BiCurrencies# 
root@master-at-home:/mnt/_work_sdb8/wwwroot/lar/BiCurrencies# kf5-config --version
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root'
Qt: 5.12.8
KDE Frameworks: 5.68.0
kf5-config: 1.0

How that can be fixed ?

$ dpkg -l | grep xdg
ii  python3-xdg                                   0.26-1ubuntu1                                                        all          Python 3 library to access freedesktop.org standards
ii  xdg-dbus-proxy                                0.1.2-1                                                              amd64        filtering D-Bus proxy
ii  xdg-desktop-portal                            1.6.0-1                                                              amd64        desktop integration portal for Flatpak and Snap
ii  xdg-desktop-portal-kde                        5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1                                                    amd64        backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt
ii  xdg-user-dirs                                 0.17-2ubuntu1                                                        amd64        tool to manage well known user directories
ii  xdg-utils                                     1.1.3-2ubuntu1.20.04.2                                               all          desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org

Thanks!

I found a hint that as boo is small /dev/sdb1 ext4 339M 234M 80M 75% /boot. Can it be a reason of this problem ? If to reinstall kubuntu one more time setting /boot on big partition - would it be ok ?

I wouldn’t be able to tell. I’m sorry. I hope that someone with more knowledge of hardware than myself can help and I don’t have a clue of how much room you would need.

This error message can indeed be triggered by a boot partition which is too full. It has happened to me before.

One thing you can try is seeing which kernels are installed and removing any which are not required. You should be able to do this via the Update Manager (safer method), or the command line.

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