nvidia cannot be enabled because xorg.conf md5sum doesn't match

Bug #47193 reported by Frank Bob
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EasyUbuntu
Confirmed
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Bug Description

The nvidia driver cannot be enabled in xorg.conf because xorg.conf fails the md5sum check. This is on a kubuntu dapper installed using the Live CD. I haven't touched xorg.conf manually and I still get this

If I run md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf | sudo tee /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum

and then sudo nvidia-glx-config enable in a terminal it works.

I tried to modify packagelist-dapper.xml to add that command but I wasn't successful.

Executing:
apt-get -o=dir::etc=/home/frank/easyubuntu/trunk/conf -o=dir::etc::sourcelist=sources.list --yes --allow-unauthenticated install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...

nvidia-glx is already the newest version.
nvidia-kernel-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Executing:
md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf | tee /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
Executing:
nvidia-glx-config enable
EasyUbuntu is finished. You may copy this log for debugging purposes.
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Error: your X configuration has been altered.
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This script cannot proceed automatically. If you believe that this
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not correct, you can update the md5sum entry executing the following
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command:
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md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf | sudo tee /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
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otherwise edit manually /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change the Driver section
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from nv to nvidia.
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EasyUbuntu is finished. You may copy this log for debugging purposes.
EasyUbuntu is finished. You may copy this log for debugging purposes.
EasyUbuntu is finished. You may copy this log for debugging purposes.
EasyUbuntu is finished. You may copy this log for debugging purposes.

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Jenda Vančura (jenda) wrote :

Bug exists in Gnome as well, and is fixed the same way.

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Radagast (rhosgobel) wrote :

I just ran into this with the latest stable version of both Ubuntu (6.06, a fresh install) and EasyUbuntu (3.01). After running the commands above, X would not start (reporting "NVIDIA: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) found"). I had to revert to the backup of xorg.conf to enable X to start.

More details in this thread: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=203070

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KarlGoetz (kgoetz) wrote :

Dont know if EU should fix this, or ask the user to fix it. but it is a problem.

Changed in easyubuntu:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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