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Hobbits are good sneaks

list Josh Luthman
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:30:06 -0500
Message-Id: <user-84d8f081e7fa@xymon.invalid>

Useless hint out of hate:  nVidia.

On 11/29/07, Everett, Vernon <user-9da1a1882f49@xymon.invalid> 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:user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, 30 November 2007 2:18 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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: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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