Same problem, but I can provide more detail. New (Clean) install, first boot, first logon, first action on desktop. Appearance Preferences was installed as "None". System / Preferences / Appearance / Visual Effects Select "Extra". Searches and says that it must download a proprietary driver. NVidia GeForce FX 5200 This same *identical* hardware setup is running 0810, and the same Visual effect setting, driver download, etc. took place flawlessly.
The driver download progress "Thermometer" sat at 0% for a long time, perhaps 10 minutes or more. A dialog stating "Sorry, the jockey backend crashed. Please file a bug at ubuntu-bug jockey-common. Trying to recover by restarting backend." appears. After another perhaps 10 minutes, I rebooted. There was never any apparent progress, and the "Appearance Preferences" box remained unresponsive until boot (It was blank, needed to be repainted since I had moved it). After reboot, the desktop was in "Visual Effects" = "Normal" mode. I clicked on "Extra", and it searched for the driver, found it, and changed modes. The windows wiggled quite nicely when you move them, and it was selected in the Appearance Preferences dialog. I can set it back to "None", and back to "Extra" etc, and it works fine. Attached is a file containing (1) The /var/log/messages for the first boot and the failure. Nothing interesting, and (2) The /var/log/jockey.log covering the first boot through failure and restart. Lots of problems are reported. Hope this helps! ** Attachment added: "messages and jockey.log covering failure." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25899823/t -- jockey backend crashed when trying to install nvidia driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
