FS#3616 - nvidia: failure message needs improvement
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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
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
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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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Comment by Dale Blount (dale) -
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 19:37 GMT
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) -
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 20:10 GMT
agreed, i've ran into this too.
Here's my suggested patch