Hobbits are good sneaks

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:user-b1d2c84d244b@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2007 3:03 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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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