[hobbit] Hobbits are good sneaks

[Sloan]

I backed away from hobbit at that time and forgot about it, as i was
trying to finish a computer science degree and didn't have time to get
involved in such mysteries. Now that I'm trying hobbit again I hadn't
even thought about that old problem until seeing this thread.

None of the hobbit servers I'm running now use the nvidia drivers, so I
have no new data. I was just a bit surprised to see a reminder of that
strange incident.

Joe

Everett, Vernon wrote:
> How did you resolve it?
> What caused it?
>
> Did you come up with a workaround?
>
> It sounds like the NVIDIA drivers are the common denominator here, but
> we need to update all our desktops, and this is a bit of a show-stopper.
>
> Regards
>     Vernon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sloan [mailto:joe at tmsusa.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2007 3:03 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbits are good sneaks
>
> 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/u
> sr/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/u
> sr/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
>
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