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nvidia-common package

  1. Bug #292606
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 292606

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Jasmine Hassan (jasmine-aura) wrote :

@Alberto Milone

I applied you attached patch to:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-common.config

in addition to what I had already applied previously to:
/usr/share/pyshared/NvidiaDetector/nvidiadetector.py
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common

Same problem persists...

I guess Mike Stroyan has a point here... See his comment #19
He provided logical explanation for why this is happening and why it should be fixed in postinst.d/dkms and not in nvidia-common, and he quoted the debconf manual to justify his reasoning, which seems appropriate in this case..

After adding "1>&2" to the invocation of /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms as he recommended:

Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms
 * Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.30-phc1
 * madwifi-hal (0.10.5.6)...
madwifi-hal (0.10.5.6): Already installed on this kernel.
                                                                                                                             [ OK ]
 * nvidia (185.18.29)...
nvidia (185.18.29): Already installed on this kernel.
                                                                                                                             [ OK ]
 * rt73-k2wrlz (3.0.3)...
rt73-k2wrlz (3.0.3): Already installed on this kernel.
                                                                                                                             [ OK ]
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common

# (success)

So perhaps this bug should be changed to 'dkms' package instead of 'nvidia-common', don't you think?