Activity log for bug #911541

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2012-01-04 00:40:12 Cefn bug added bug
2012-01-04 01:00:49 Cefn description It's a nightmare to find out you have to look through a huge log dump to work out what went wrong with a simple driver install. Turns out Jockey depends on being able to get a dpkg lock, and if another GUI like Synaptic is running at the same time, this will fail, and tell you. Sorry, the installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log What should happen instead - Jockey should pause and interactively tell you to shut down Synaptic (or whatever package manager has the lock) in order to be able to proceed further. Perhaps easier, it should check on this before beginning the process. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: jockey-common 0.9.4-0ubuntu10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jan 4 00:30:21 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N5110 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=af952950-f353-4188-9c39-5d5de004eab5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: jockey UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A06 dmi.board.name: 0HVRTT dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A06 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd05/26/2011:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN5110:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0HVRTT:rvrA06:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified: dmi.product.name: Inspiron N5110 dmi.product.version: Not Specified dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. It's a nightmare to find out you have to look through a huge log dump to work out what went wrong with a simple driver install. Turns out Jockey depends on being able to get a dpkg lock, and if another GUI like Synaptic is running at the same time, this will fail in an invisible script running hidden behind the gui, and tell you... Sorry, the installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log What should happen instead - Jockey should pause and interactively tell you to shut down Synaptic (or whatever package manager has the lock) in order to be able to proceed further. Perhaps easier, it should check on this before beginning the process. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: jockey-common 0.9.4-0ubuntu10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jan 4 00:30:21 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N5110 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron:  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en  PATH=(custom, no user)  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8  SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=af952950-f353-4188-9c39-5d5de004eab5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: jockey UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A06 dmi.board.name: 0HVRTT dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A06 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd05/26/2011:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN5110:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0HVRTT:rvrA06:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified: dmi.product.name: Inspiron N5110 dmi.product.version: Not Specified dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
2012-01-04 02:17:35 Daniel Letzeisen bug added subscriber Dave Lentz
2012-04-22 06:21:30 Daniel Letzeisen marked as duplicate 303085