I encountered the same problem in 9.04 after trying to change
Appearance settings. Hardware is nVidia 160m in Dell E6500. I've always
hated nVidia's stance on open source; this just brings back bad
memories.
I noticed this in my pstree:
├─jockey-backend─┬─cdrom───mount
│ └─{jockey-backend}
and top showed:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3885 root 20 0 16664 1740 1452 R 24 0.0 8:55.71 cdrom
3790 root 20 0 180m 70m 16m S 14 0.9 4:43.00 jockey-backend
2529 messageb 20 0 22064 1792 808 S 6 0.0 2:42.00 dbus-daemon
So I disabled 'local cdrom' in my Synaptic settings and retried. At
first it didn't work, but then I realized the above 'cdrom' process was
still running. So I killed it, and this time it seems to work (at least
it downloads and installed). I'm about to reboot and confirm.
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jockey backend crashed when trying to install nvidia driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350776
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