It's against jockey itself though, and as said ubuntu-drivers-common
doesn't exist in precise so it probably needs unduplicating from this
one?
** Summary changed:
- nvidia-detector error breaks Nvidia drivers install on Quantal
+ nvidia-detector error breaks Nvidia drivers install on Quantal, Precise
** Also affects: nvidia-common (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: nvidia-common (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: New => Invalid
** Description changed:
[Impact]
Causes the Hardware Drivers dialog to lockup and be unusable for all users on
quantal due to it being unable to parse the driver names for experimental
drivers.
+
+ precise: a similar error in nvidia-common, as indicated via
+ errors.ubuntu.com although it claims jockey as culprit?
[Fix]
Make the code skip over experimental drivers for considering which kernel
drivers to list. These drivers are then listed with the X drivers instead.
[Test Case]
1. On quantal enable -proposed so that all experimental nvidia drivers
become visible
2. apt-get update
3. Run jockey (the Additional Hardware Drivers dialog)
- Expected behavior: Jockey lists experimental drivers
+ Expected behavior: Jockey lists experimental drivers
Actual behavior: Jockey locks up
[Regression Potential]
None really, it's just a one line change to exclude some strings.
Validation testing should be fairly simple on a quantal system with
NVIDIA graphics. Reproduce the original flaw, then install the package
from -proposed and verify behavior is fixed. A single validation report
should be sufficient to prove this safe; there's not really any chance
this could cause larger misbehaviors beyond the bug in question.
[Original Report]
After installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers through "Software Source" tab
and rebooting, the GUI becomes totally unusable (no Dash, no top bar with
indicators, unable to start applications).
When dropping to a virtual console and running 'nvidia-detector', I got
the following stack trace :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/nvidia-detector", line 8, in <module>
a = NvidiaDetection(printonly=True, verbose=False)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py",
line 68, in __init__
self.getData()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py",
line 149, in getData
driver_version = self.__get_value_from_name(stripped_package_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py",
line 87, in __get_value_from_name
v = int(name)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'experimental-304'
Trying again after installing jockey-common, here is the list of
available drivers :
kmod:nvidia_experimental_304 - Experimental NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel
module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_current - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU
library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_current_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and
VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
I was unable to enable any of those using jockey-text -e
Removing the nvidia-current and nvidia-experimental-304 fixed the
problem by re-enabling the nouveau driver.
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