** Description changed: [Problem] This is a common issue encountered by users trying to install -nvidia on systems with insufficient space to install the driver. This can happen for instance if the user is booting from a usb disk. It is further noticed that in many cases the system may appear to have enough space, but it still fails on an out of space issue. It is suspected that either more space is used than expected, or the amount of available space is overreported. Jockey should check for available space on installation, and should include a sizable margin (like 2.5x space asked). If the user has less than that amount of space, it should give a dialog warning them that they won't have enough space. Jockey also needs to be aware that in a LiveCD environment, there may be ample space available in the reserved persistent space (the casper-rw file on the usb key), but it needs to have space on the underlying filesystem too, for creating initrd and storing the kernel image and so on. [Steps to Reproduce] 1. Download an ISO 2. Generate a USB install key using usb-creator. Select the 'Stored in reserved extra space' option and set it to the maximum available space. 3. Using df note the remaining free space (496k in my case) 4. Boot the usb device on a system with NVIDIA or AMD graphics 5. Go to the applications menu. Select 'Additional Drivers'. Install fglrx or nvidia (or any other proprietary driver). 6. Installation of the driver fails. (I see "SystemError: installArchives() failed" but might error differently depending on how much space was available). 7. Shut down system and re-examine usb drive. The persistence file has not changed size, but other things on the USB drive have increased and used up the remaining space. (I see initrd.lz.new of size 496k) + + [Workaround] + 1. Download an ISO (I tested against the alpha-1 iso image) + 2. Generate a USB drive using usb-creator. Do not reserve all the remaining space. Leave some amount for system updates (I tested on a 4G drive, reserving 1G to persistent storage and the remaining ~2G for system updates, but other quantities may work as well). This works around bug #562312. + 3. Boot the USB drive, select "Try Ubuntu" (the Live CD environment) + 4. Delete the broken /vmlinuz symlink and create /vmlinuz as a new symlink to /cdrom/casper/vmlinuz /vmlinuz. This works around bug #557023. + 5. Do an update (via running 'Check' in Update Manager, or just 'sudo apt-get update' on the command line). Otherwise jockey will fail with error about not finding expected versions of Qt or other packages. + 6. Now run 'Additional Hardware' (aka jockey), and click 'Activate'. Some stuff is downloaded and installed... time passes... then it says it is successfully installed. + 7. Reboot. (For some reason I had to specifically select USB in BIOS for booting, even that was already listed as first thing to try.) + 8. Select 'Try Ubuntu' again; it should load up fine now, with fglrx in the live cd environment, with compiz and unity enabled. [Original Report] Booted from usb disk Got a notice saying that unity was not available because I didn't have 3D. Went to System->Administration->Hardware drivers, selected to install nvidia drivers. Apport detected crash, driver installation failed. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: nvidia-current 260.19.21-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.19-generic 2.6.37-rc3 Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Dec 3 23:57:10 2010 DkmsStatus: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 GdmLog1: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory GdmLog2: Error: command ['cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101203) MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers Title: package nvidia-current 260.19.21-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dmi.bios.date: 11/23/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1226 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: P5B-Deluxe dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1226:bd11/23/2007:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5B-Deluxe:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: natty architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.37-7-generic
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