[hobbit] Hobbits are good sneaks

[Josh Luthman]

Useless hint out of hate:  nVidia.

On 11/29/07, Everett, Vernon <Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> wrote:
>
> Thanks, that worked for us too.
>
> I am still puzzled as to why or how this happened.
> I am sure it's a problem with the NVIDIA driver installer, but why would
> it pick up the ~hobbit/client/tmp directory?
> It just seems too damn strange.
>
> Regards
>     Vernon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming at desy.de]
> Sent: Friday, 30 November 2007 2:18 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbits are good sneaks
>
>
> Hi !
>
> I've got the same error a few month ago ...
>
> .. i've deleted the tmp-link in home of hobbit
>
> /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp is a link to /tmp
>
> remove the link and create a real directory tmp in
> /usr/lib/hobbit/client/ ...
>
> .. for me, it did worked ..
>
> cheers,
>           martin
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, 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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