sed: can't read /lib/systemd/system/displaylink-driver.service: No such file or directory

[jonathanelscpt]

Steps take:

1. Uninstalled prior version (i believe 5.3.1)
2. Installed new version (5.8)
3. Installation failed

Installation fails with:

Performing post install steps

sed: can't read /lib/systemd/system/displaylink-driver.service: No such file or directory

What can I do to fix or troubleshoot this missing file?

Select a key: [i/d/r/u/q]: I

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Checking dependencies

unzip is installed
linux-headers-5.19.0-41-generic is installed
dkms is installed
lsb-release is installed
linux-source is installed
x11-xserver-utils is installed
wget is installed
libdrm-dev:amd64 is installed
libelf-dev:amd64 is installed
git is installed
pciutils is installed
build-essential is installed

Platform requirements satisfied, proceeding ...

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Please read the Software License Agreement available at: 
https://www.synaptics.com/node/5591?filetype=exe
Do you accept?: [Y/n]: Y

Downloading DisplayLink Ubuntu driver:

--2024-04-09 16:20:51--  https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/exe_files/2023-08/DisplayLink%20USB%20Graphics%20Software%20for%20Ubuntu5.8-EXE.zip
Resolving www.synaptics.com (www.synaptics.com)... 54.245.106.105
Connecting to www.synaptics.com (www.synaptics.com)|54.245.106.105|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18341463 (17M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘DisplayLink_Ubuntu_5.8.zip’

DisplayLink_Ubuntu_5.8.zip                           100%[=====================================================================================================================>]  17.49M  3.15MB/s    in 7.0s    

2024-04-09 16:20:59 (2.50 MB/s) - ‘DisplayLink_Ubuntu_5.8.zip’ saved [18341463/18341463]

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Preparing for install

Archive:  DisplayLink_Ubuntu_5.8.zip
  inflating: 5.8/DisplayLink USB Graphics Software for Ubuntu 5.8.0-63.33-Release Notes.txt  
  inflating: 5.8/displaylink-driver-5.8.0-63.33.run  
Creating directory displaylink-driver-5.8.0-63.33
Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 5.8.0-63.33  100%  
patching file 5.8/displaylink-driver-5.8/displaylink-installer.sh
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
Hunk #1 succeeded at 239 (offset 2 lines).

Installing driver version: 5.8

Distribution discovered: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
WARNING: Version 1.13.1 of EVDI kernel module is already running.
Please reboot before attempting to re-install DisplayLink Linux Software.
Installation terminated.
Adding udlfb to blacklist
Adding udl to blacklist

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Performing post install steps

sed: can't read /lib/systemd/system/displaylink-driver.service: No such file or directory

[jonathanelscpt]

Can't uninstall either:

Select a key: [i/d/r/u/q]: R

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Checking dependencies

unzip is installed
linux-headers-5.19.0-41-generic is installed
dkms is installed
lsb-release is installed
linux-source is installed
x11-xserver-utils is installed
wget is installed
libdrm-dev:amd64 is installed
libelf-dev:amd64 is installed
git is installed
pciutils is installed
build-essential is installed

Platform requirements satisfied, proceeding ...

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Uninstalling ...

bash: /opt/displaylink/displaylink-installer.sh: No such file or directory

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[jonathanelscpt]

tarting Debug ...

Did you read Post Installation Guide? https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/blob/master/docs/post-install-guide.md [y/N] Y

Did you read Troubleshooting most common issues? https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/blob/master/docs/common-issues.md [y/N] Y

--------------- Linux system info ----------------

Distro: Ubuntu
Release: jammy
Kernel: 5.19.0-41-generic

---------------- DisplayLink info ----------------

Driver version: 
DisplayLink service status: 
EVDI service version: 1.13.1

------------------ Graphics card -----------------

Vendor: i915
Subsystem: [UHD
VGA: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
VGA (3D): NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
X11 version: 21.1.4-2ubuntu1.7~22.04.9

-------------- DisplayLink xorg.conf -------------

File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-displaylink.conf
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-displaylink.conf: No such file or directory
Contents:

-------------------- Monitors --------------------

Providers: number : 6
Provider 0: id: 0x45 cap: 0x9, Source Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 3 outputs: 4 associated providers: 4 name:modesetting
Provider 1: id: 0x277 cap: 0x2, Sink Output crtcs: 1 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting
Provider 2: id: 0x256 cap: 0x2, Sink Output crtcs: 1 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting
Provider 3: id: 0x235 cap: 0x2, Sink Output crtcs: 1 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting
Provider 4: id: 0x214 cap: 0x2, Sink Output crtcs: 1 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting
Provider 5: id: 0x1f3 cap: 0x0 crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-G0

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[jonathanelscpt]

Update:

Used this to solve the uninstall issue, editing script for for v5.8: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/issues/380

Will re-test the installation

[Barabazs]

afaik this happens when you don't reboot between uninstalling and installing.