[Hardy 8.04] nvidia-glx-new adept error amd64

[Chuck Adams]

April 26, 2008 01:30 UTC

Installed 8.04 amd64 release.

System detects nvidia video and asks to install
nvidia-glx-new from non-free. Downloads and
then adept-batch displays error message:

There was an error committing changes.
Possibly there was a problem downloading
some packages or the commit would break
packages.

System has ECS Elitegroup GeForce 7050M-M
motherboard with NVidia GeF7050 graphics.

FYI

[trollord (trollenlord)]

What do you see when you do "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new" on terminal?

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

attached is screenshot of the results of the above command

If I do a "sudo apt-get update" I get error messages related to
corrupt bzip2 and another module. I'll come back and attach
screenshots for those.

These results are for a new install of 8.04 amd64 on an amd64
system ECS Elitegroup GeForce 7050M-M with NVidia GeF7050
graphics system.

Thanks

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

here is "sudo apt-get update" command results (screenshot)

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

Here is screenshot of system detection of nvidia board and then
attempt to install nvidia-glx-new via adept manager

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

On Sunday 27 April 2008 04:54:20 trollord wrote:
> What do you see when you do "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new" on
> terminal?
>
>
> ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24
>
> ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete

I have added several screenshots to

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222270

I am not able to go back to 219604 for the April 14th
daily-live install as I did not save the disc. Please
close that report as 222270 is the current problem and
the same as previous bug.....

ciao,

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http://www.k7qo.net

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

downloaded hardy-dvd-amd64.iso and created install disc.

after 8.04 installed, system detects nvidia card. adept manager
breaks with the
Suggested packages:
  nvidia-new-kernel-source nvidia-settings
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nvidia-glx-new

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9370kB of archives.
After this operation, 28.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
E: Tar checksum failed, archive corrupted
E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-new_169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34_amd64.deb
debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-new_169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-new_169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 same error as in snapshot6.

do a "sudo apt-get update" and no errors reported.

do a "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new" and get the following

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

May 2, 2008

Once again tried reload of entire O/S from Kubuntu 8.04 AMD64 DVD.

Installation of nvidia-glx-new once again gets error message from
adept manager that installation will break.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Hi Chuck,

From the messages above, the archive in your local repository seems corrupted (probably because of a transfer problem)

Can you try this:
Open a console and type:
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new

If that fails, then try this:
wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/l/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24/nvidia-glx-new_169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i nvidia-glx-new_169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34_amd64.deb

Post the output of the terminal if both fails.

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

On Saturday 03 May 2008 13:39:29 Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> >From the messages above, the archive in your local repository seems
>
> corrupted (probably because of a transfer problem)
>
> Can you try this:
> Open a console and type:
> sudo apt-get clean
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new
>
> If that fails, then try this:
> wget
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/l/linux-restricted-modu
>les-2.6.24/nvidia-glx-new_169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i
> nvidia-glx-new_169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34_amd64.deb
>
> Post the output of the terminal if both fails.

Jean,

I tried the above.

With steps in part 1 with sudo apt-get the install gets an error
message about a "corrupted filesystem tarfile".

Steps in part 2 with wget installs but upon reboot I get the X11
failure to come up. When I did a

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx-new gives an error message

/usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 does not exist.

A "ls /usr/lib32" gives an error message the the lib32 directory
does not exist.

Since, nvidia-glx-new works on the 32-bit version (i386) of 8.04
and not the amd64, I am thinking that it is a problem with the
/usr/lib32 missing modules......

Hope this helps.

ciao,

Chuck

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http://www.k7qo.net

[Chuck Adams (k7qo)]

I did forget to mention that this problem looks like bug #184212
in the archives.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Well, regarding #36625 there's an issue in uninstall script of nvidia-glx-new. Waiting for a diff and a workaround and submit it to the maintainer. I can't help further for now since I can't reproduce it.

[dlotton (yellow56)]

I just installed Kubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64 and had the same problem except it was the nvidia-glx package, not nvidia-glx-new. The package was partially installed and I was unable to install or remove any of the nvidia packages. nvidia-glx was complaining about "/usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 does not exist", same as Chuck.

I was able to get this working by creating "/usr/lib32" which did not exist.

sudo mkdir /usr/lib32

After that I was able to uninstall/reinstall nvidia-glx and install the other nvidia packages.

Looks like something needs to be fixed in the nvidia packages for AMD64 to correct this issue.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.