nvidia installer freezes on lenny x86 [solved: rpm]

[Chris Hiestand <chiestand@salk.edu>]

Before I could finish composing a request for help, I solved my own  
problem. I thought I'd finish the email in case anybody else runs into  
the same issue.

Problem:

When I run various (new or old) versions of the nvidia installer  
(provided by nvidia), it freezes right after I 'agree' on the license  
agreement screen. Hopefully the screenshot gets sent to this list  
properly?  Before upgrading from etch to lenny, the nvidia driver  
installed fine (with a legacy driver for the NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 1000  
(NV30GL) chipset).

There are some interesting spawned processes, which are inactive at  
this point:
root      5893  3167  0 19:25 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/sh ./NVIDIA-Linux- 
x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run
root      5919  5893  0 19:25 pts/0    00:00:00 ./nvidia-installer
root      5928  5919  0 19:25 pts/0    00:00:00 sh -c env  
LD_KERNEL_ASSUME=2.2.5 rpm --query NVIDIA_GLX 2>&1
root      5929  5928  0 19:25 pts/0    00:00:00 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -- 
query NVIDIA_GLX

The nvidia-installer log doesn't show anything of value.


Solution:

The process list gave it away.  I guess the installer detected a rpm  
binary and assumed that I was in a rpm based environment? I don't  
actually use 'rpm' on this system so I apt-get removed it. After this,  
the nvidia installer works fine.

-Chris

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