Re: misconfiguration or bug? (nvidia packages)

[Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au>]

Ive just started seeing that same thing, but running sid i dont jump to 
much unless a problem doesnt go away within a month or so.

I havent had any adverse affects...

Hopefully an updated package will come through soon?


Dean

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
>
> on my amd64 system I discovered in syslog this entry:
>
> Feb 21 10:08:23 localhost console-kit-daemon[6040]: WARNING: Unable to spawn 
> /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/nvidia_helper.ck: Failed to execute child 
> process "/usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/nvidia_helper.ck" (Permission denied)
> Feb 21 10:08:25 localhost udevd-work[20614]: exec of program 
> '/lib/udev/nvidia_helper' failed
>
> It seems, the nvidia-package is not packed as for debian structured. To get it 
> correctly running, here is my workaround:
>
> 1. move usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/nvidia_helper.ck to /lib/udev/ and make 
> it executable (root:root/ rwx r-x r-x)
>
> 2. go to /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/ and create a symlink for the file 
> doing ln -s /lib/udev/nvidia_helper.ck nvidia_helper.ck
>
> 3. Reboot
>
> Maybe you want to change it in the next package-version?
>
> I do not know, if this behaviour is on i386-machines, too, as I my only 
> machine with an Nvidia card is an amd64 machine.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Hans