Jockey (Additional Drivers) crashes with SystemError: installArchives() failed

[Yehuda Korotkin]

Binary package hint: jockey-gtk

After tring to install :
* Broadcom B43 wireless driver
or/and
* Nvidia accelerated graphical driver (version 173)
or/and
* Nvidia accelerated graphical driver (current)

the process shows that it finished to download & install but... it crashes with message-box that shows error SystemError: installArchives() failed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.10-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 11 07:51:06 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=c23aaec3-16fb-4cfe-9e54-2a400de515df ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: jockey
dmi.bios.date: 10/01/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.13
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 30F8
dmi.board.vendor: Compal
dmi.board.version: 99.74
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Compal
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.13:bd10/01/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv4NotebookPC:pvrF.13:rvnCompal:rn30F8:rvr99.74:cvnCompal:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: F.13
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

I'm getting the same error message when booting from a live USB stick of the Ubuntu Natty alpha 1, but strangely I don't have this problem when running 10.10.

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

Since I'm using a newer version of Ubuntu and a newer version of jockey, I filed a separate bug report at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/691224