System->Hardware Drivers doesn't warn about open Synaptic
Bug #434402 reported by
Essence
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #303085: Jockey fails silently if it can't get dpkg lock.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: jockey-gtk
I am running Karmic
I was trying to install the nvidia drivers using System->Hardware Drivers, and it kept failing. I realised I had an instance of Synaptic package manager open, and knowing this causes problems for things like 'apt-get' i closed it and tried again, this worked fine.
jockey-gtk should probably warn that another instance of Synaptic might be open, to give users a possible solution to this problem rather than have users wonder why they can't get the drivers.
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| Neil Perry (nperry) wrote | #1 |
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Reporting as duplicate as aware of silent failer.