Bug#864406: nvidia-legacy-check_375.66-1_amd64.deb fails to unpack

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: tags -1 -moreinfo

On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 03:55 -0700, J Mo wrote:
> Hardware is a Macbook Pro 5,1, which has two built-in adapters. One
> is 
> the onboard/chipset-based 9400M and the other is the dedicated-chip 
> 9600M GT. I'm not even sure the driver supports these. I'm just
> dorking 
> around.
> 
> 
> 
> -->lspci -mn | awk '{ gsub("\"",""); if ($2 == "0300") { print $1 "
> " 
> $3$4 } }' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
> 02:00.0 10DE0647
> 03:00.0 10DE0863
> 
> 
> 
> -->lspci -nn -s 02:00.0
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G96M 
> [GeForce 9600M GT] [10de:0647] (rev a1)
> 
> -->lspci -nn -s 03:00.0
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C79 
> [GeForce 9400M] [10de:0863] (rev b1)

The 375 series does not support those cards, you'll need the legacy
340xx:

apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver

But bear in mind it might not work on a Macbook.
I do not have one of those so unfortunately the support I can provide
is limited by that.

The nvidia-legacy-check is designed to fail like that when the hardware
is not supported, but it should print a more helpful error. Not sure
why it didn't happen in your case.

> On 06/08/2017 03:24 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 23:49 -0700, J Mo wrote:
> > > Package: nvidia-legacy-check
> > > Version: 375.66-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > Package seems farked. Can't even unpack.
> > > 
> > > Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-legacy-check.
> > > Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-legacy-check_375.66-1_amd64.deb
> > > ...
> > > dpkg: error processing archive
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-legacy-check_375.66-1_amd64.deb (
> > > --unpack):
> > >    subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit
> > > status
> > > 128
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- System Information:
> > > Debian Release: 9.0
> > >     APT prefers unstable
> > >     APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
> > > 'stable')
> > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > > Foreign Architectures: i386
> > > 
> > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> > > LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
> > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> > > 
> > > Versions of packages nvidia-legacy-check depends on:
> > > ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.61
> > > ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup  20151021+4
> > > ii  pciutils                  1:3.5.2-1
> > > 
> > > nvidia-legacy-check recommends no packages.
> > > 
> > > nvidia-legacy-check suggests no packages.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Which Nvidia card do you have?
> > 
> > The following should print 2 "words":
> > 
> > lspci -mn | awk '{ gsub("\"",""); if ($2 == "0300") { print $1 " "
> > $3$4 } }' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
> > 
> > For example:
> > 00:02.0 0123456
> > 
> > Please paste them, and also the first one being the PCI bus, please
> > paste the output of the following command using your PCI bus
> > result:
> > 
> > lspci -nn -s 00:02.0
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Luca Boccassi
> 
> 
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