package nvidia-current 190.53-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Greg Reed]

On initial installation of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Alpha 1 I waited for the hardware drivers available notification to activate then clicked on the activate button to download and install the available nvidia driver (185) and received this error message(see summary).

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 17 10:37:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100105)
Package: nvidia-current 190.53-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Tags: lucid
Title: package nvidia-current 190.53-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic x86_64

[Nicola Rosati (supernaicol)]

I can confirm the bug.

System: Kubuntu 10.04 amd64, upgraded from karmic.
Kernel: custom 2.6.32 kernel configured and compiled from ubuntu kernel source package.

I upgraded nvidia-185-kernel-source, and the package requires nvidia-current as dependency, but nvidia-current gave the same error to me.

Bye.

[Mark Greenwood (fatgerman)]

Same problem here, clean install of Kubuntu Lucid Alpha 2. Nvidia proprietary driver does not install.

I'll attach /var/log/jockey.log for the nvidia driver (I have tried twice).

Since modern nvidia hardware will overheat rapidly if used with the nv driver, I would regard this bug as serious.

[Mark Greenwood (fatgerman)]

Should have said, this is on i386, not x86_64 as per the OP.

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

Seems to be fixed now. However I don't know exactly since when. Can others confirm this ?

[Nicola Rosati (supernaicol)]

Sorry, I moved back to a former backup of karmic for other reason...

[Torsten Spindler (tspindler)]

I still got this error when upgrading from Karmic to Lucid Alpha 3.

[kyleabaker (kyleabaker)]

I'm still getting this with x64 10.04 + all current updates. Is there a known fix yet?

[las (bandara-ls)]

Im getting this on beta 2

[las (bandara-ls)]

I tried on usb live....This is when i try using synaptic.Im not sure that i should not install drivers on usb live with persistence file.But new users would wnt to know if there Hw works before an install I think..

Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu71) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
cp: cannot stat `/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up nvidia-current (195.36.15-0ubuntu1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
cp: cannot stat `/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing nvidia-current (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
 nvidia-current
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu71) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

@las, your bug is a different (already known) problem about not being able to access /vmlinuz on usb keys.

The original bug had something to do with the root partition being read-only (I think, judging from the attached df output), but seems to be out of date at this point. Closing as fixed.