FS#3616 : nvidia: failure message needs improvement

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FS#3616 - nvidia: failure message needs improvement

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 16:41 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 19:38 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Packages: Extra
Status	Closed
Assigned To	Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture	not specified
Severity	Medium
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	0.7 Wombat
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

Hey guys,
Every so often the nvidia installer will fail, and the default scriptlet failure says "X is probably running", but that is not always the case.
The error message should be improved, pointing users to the installer log first, and possibly "tail -n15"-ing the log file. I've seen alot of people saying "but X isn't running and it still tells me to close X".

Just one instance where this came up - the testing kernel was compiled with gcc4.0 when gcc4.1 was released, and an install would fail due to the vermagic not matching (kernel/module versions contain the compiler version too).

Thanks

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Closed by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Sunday, 18 December 2005, 08:59 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed