nvidia 177 does not download or install.

[sonny]

My card is 7800 GS and will not the install any of the 4 or so drivers it shows to be available.

[Tony McKenzie (mckenzie-tony)]

8.10 fresh install
6600gt

Jockey found the nvidia177 drivers but when i tried to activate it would just try and download then say activated but the icon wouldnt turn green or actually download or activate. To resolve this i had to use synaptic and find the nvidia-glx driver install then go back to jockey and activate. once restarted it was activated. I'm assuming the download portion of the program is broken in some way.

[sonny (texas-wells)]

Very cool thank you

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, fuelthefire99 <email address hidden> wrote:
From: fuelthefire99 <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 285312] Re: nvidia 177 does not download or install.
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 9:40 PM

8.10 fresh install
6600gt

Jockey found the nvidia177 drivers but when i tried to activate it would
just try and download then say activated but the icon wouldnt turn green
or actually download or activate. To resolve this i had to use synaptic
and find the nvidia-glx driver install then go back to jockey and
activate. once restarted it was activated. I'm assuming the download
portion of the program is broken in some way.

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nvidia 177 does not download or install.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285312
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Status in Jockey driver manager: New

Bug description:
My card is 7800 GS and will not the install any of the 4 or so drivers it shows
to be available.

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

I'm also experiencing this, on a clean and upgraded install of intrepid

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

The following was collected when I ran jockey-gtk. "result could not be parsed" seems to be spit out infinitely.

sudo /usr/share/jockey/jockey-backend --debug -l /tmp/jockey.log
result could not be parsed
result could not be parsed
result could not be parsed
....
result could not be parsed
result could not be parsed
result could not be parsed
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/service.py", line 696, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jockey/backend.py", line 338, in set_enabled
    t_f.join(0.2)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 605, in join
    self.__block.wait(delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 235, in wait
    _sleep(delay)
KeyboardInterrupt

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/jockey/jockey-backend", line 75, in <module>
    svr.run_dbus_service(argv_options.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jockey/backend.py", line 606, in run_dbus_service
    self.main_loop.run()
KeyboardInterrupt

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

I also tried killing the cupsd, because another bug report implied it might help. The above was collected while cupsd was off.

When I run jockey-gtk from the command line, eventually, there is some sort of timeout error. I lose that output running the above. I can collect it again if you think it will be helpful.

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

I guess it is a problem with the package download, since running sudo apt-get -d install nvidia-glx-177 allowed jockey to work. Here is the output of that:
tester@tester-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -d install nvidia-glx-177
[sudo] password for tester:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dkms fakeroot nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-settings patch
Suggested packages:
  diff-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dkms fakeroot nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-settings patch
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 214kB/12.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 37.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main fakeroot 1.9.5ubuntu1 [114kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main patch 2.5.9-5 [100kB]
Fetched 214kB in 0s (241kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode

I'm also attaching the debug output of jockey-backend again, for what its worth. Though, there doesn't look like anything interesting in either of those outputs.

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

well, I tried removing the driver, and removing all downloaded packages, but the bug does not reoccur. So much for tracking it down.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

There is indeed nothing in either log file which would explain this. Instead, the stderr output rather smells like a bug in D-Bus. Did you ever encounter this again?

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

I haven't

[sonny (texas-wells)]

I did encounter this again. Im good now found a work around. Thanks

Tedd

--- On Wed, 2/18/09, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Martin Pitt <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 285312] Re: nvidia 177 does not download or install.
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 4:14 AM

There is indeed nothing in either log file which would explain this.
Instead, the stderr output rather smells like a bug in D-Bus. Did you
ever encounter this again?

** Changed in: jockey
       Status: New => Incomplete

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nvidia 177 does not download or install.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285312
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

Status in Jockey driver manager: Incomplete

Bug description:
My card is 7800 GS and will not the install any of the 4 or so drivers it shows
to be available.