Comment 61 for bug 873058

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Tyler Hallada (thallada) wrote : Re: Jockey fail to install binary ati driver (post release) version

I have a AMD Radeon 6900 Series and I was getting this error with the identical log. I upgraded to the -proposed version of the package but I am now getting this error when I run jockey from the console:

$ sudo jockey-gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jockey-gtk", line 382, in on_button_toggle_clicked
    'toggle', False):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jockey/ui.py", line 667, in set_handler_enable
    handler_id, enable)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jockey/backend.py", line 98, in convert_dbus_exceptions
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jockey/backend.py", line 90, in dbus_sync_call_signal_wrapper
    raise _h_exception_exc
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.TypeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jockey/backend.py", line 337, in _f_result_wrapper
    self._f_result = f()
  File "/usr/share/jockey/handlers/fglrx.py", line 95, in enable
    self._other_alternatives.set_alternative(other_fglrx_alternative)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/NvidiaDetector/alternatives.py", line 130, in set_alternative
    self._master_link, path])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 506, in check_call
    retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 493, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1239, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
TypeError: execv() arg 2 must contain only strings

The visual behavior of jockey is identical to the reports of the other two people.