NVIDIA Driver crashes during install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Trying to install and activate NVIDIA driver 173 or 177 and receive crash message.
New install of Desktop 8.10
GeForce 6100 Video Card
eMachine T3304
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: nvidia-glx-173 None [modified: /var/lib/
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (hostname 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:18:38 UTC 2008
SourcePackage: nvidia-
Title: package nvidia-glx-173 None [modified: /var/lib/
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
xkbcomp:
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 283747, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.