If apt tries to grab packages from a CD when installing a driver, Jockey hangs

[Philip Kent]

If you have the Ubuntu CDROM selected as an installation source when installing a driver, and for whatever reason packages try to be retrieved from this CD but it is not in the computer, then Jockey hangs on the screen with the progress bar where the driver is installed.

This was discovered by trying the command manually in apt and being asked for a CD. After removing the CD from the sources.list, Jockey was able to install the driver fine.

Example - Install the 180 nvidia driver on a fresh install of the 9.04 beta when the CD is selected as one of the sources in addition to the Internet ones, but with the CD not in the drive.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Not an upstream bug.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Oops, indeed that's a potential trap. I didn't know that we put the nvidia drivers on the CDs still.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

I can confirm this bug. I saw this problem when trying to activate restricted driver for Broadcom wireless card. Later I found out from jockey log that it hanged while trying to install b43-fwcutter which was present on CD. I then installed b43-fwcutter manually with apt-get and restarted jockey to finish remaining process.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Should not be an issue now.

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