[hobbit] Hobbits are good sneaks

[Sloan]

Everett, Vernon wrote:
> Hi all
>  
> OK, this is the strangest thing I have ever seen.
>  
> We are running Red Hat EL3
> A few weeks back, we compiled hobbit into a rpm, and installed the
> client on this machine.
>  
> Now we are trying to update the video driver, and we get this.
>  
> # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run -ans
> Verifying archive integrity... OK
> Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64
> 169.04...........................................................................................................................................
> ERROR: Unable to create
> '/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/selfgz8167/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2/usr/lib32/libnvidia-cfg.so.169.04'
> for copying (No such file
> or directory)
> WARNING: Unable to restore file
> '/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/selfgz8167/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2/usr/lib32/libnvidia-cfg.so.169.04'.
> WARNING: Unable to perform the runtime configuration check for library
> 'libcuda.so.1' ('/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.169.04'); assuming successful
> installation.
>  
> If we remove the hobbit RPM and rename the /usr/lib/hobbit directory
> to something else, it works.
>  
> Has anybody seen anything like this before?

Yes, it was at least a year ago, and I was looking at hobbit-4.1.2 IIRC.
It was the same sort of bizarre environment poisoning you describe, and
I also saw it when trying to update nvidia drivers.

Joe