nvidia-common did not update properly

[Susan Cragin]

Binary package hint: nvidia-common

New partition, 64-bit Natty Studio, installed with 12/17 daily build and updated twice today. The second sudo aptitude update produced the following traceback.

Setting up nvidia-common (0.2.25) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/nvidia-detector", line 8, in <module>
    a = NvidiaDetection(printonly=True, verbose=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.getData()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py", line 142, in getData
    driver_version = self.__get_value_from_name(package.name.split('-', 1)[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py", line 85, in __get_value_from_name
    return self.__driver_aliases.get(name, int(name))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'current'
dpkg: error processing nvidia-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up python-problem-report (1.16-0ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Setting up python-apport (1.16-0ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Setting up apport (1.16-0ubuntu5) ...
start: Job failed to start
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Setting up apport-gtk (1.16-0ubuntu5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up nvidia-common (0.2.25) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/nvidia-detector", line 8, in <module>
    a = NvidiaDetection(printonly=True, verbose=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.getData()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py", line 142, in getData
    driver_version = self.__get_value_from_name(package.name.split('-', 1)[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py", line 85, in __get_value_from_name
    return self.__driver_aliases.get(name, int(name))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'current'
dpkg: error processing nvidia-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-common

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nvidia-common 0.2.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-10.24-generic 2.6.37-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 18 21:12:00 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101218)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-common