Restricted hardware driver installation crashes

[Sundaram Ramaswamy]

Binary package hint: jockey-gtk

I installed Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 (AMD64) on my machine which has a Asus M3N78-EMH HDMI motherboard, with nVidia 8200 chipset on it. In the Restricted Hardware Notification, it listed 2 drivers, NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173) and (version 177 [recommended]) ones. When I chose on the latter and clicked on "Install and turn on", I was prompted for password, as I wasn't root. When I gave it, a untitled window came up, with the text, "Downloading and installing driver..." and it disappeared in a blink. This happened every other time, with my cd-rom driver being empty.

When I tried the same with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6's disc inserted, the drive get accessed for a long time, with no change in the untitled window, after a long time (15 mins), Apport came up telling that jockey-gtk has crashed, when I asked it to generate a report, it gave me a list of packages and said they are outdated and hence it cannot generate a report, but still the Hardware Drivers and the Untitled window were visible, and were responding to right clicks but with no change in the % of installation.

Release of Ubuntu:
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

Package Version:
jockey-gtk:
  Installed: 0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Maxime Normand (maxime-normand)]

I had the same problem, fixed it buy enabling all repositories, running update manager and installing all available updates.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Sundaram, can you please upgrade your system to the latest packages (which includes a lot of jockey fixes) and then try this again? If you still get a crash, please submit it through the standard crash reporting tool. This will generate a new bug report, thus I am closing this one to avoid duplication. Thank you!