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elasticdog

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Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

The latest nvidia upgrade (nvidia-1.0.8178-14) doesn't work on my system.  It tells me some info, but nothing that I can make heads or tails out of...

/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA-dynamic.so.1 is empty, not checked.
INSTALLATION FAILED!
==> You have to shutdown Xserver to finish installation! You have to rerun 'pacman -S nvidia'

No part of X is running, and I did a reboot to make sure there were no processes lurking in the background.  I've searched the forums, and this isn't uncommon, but most people find that it hasn't been compiled with the same version of gcc as their kernel.  In my case, however, I'm completely stock all the way, and haven't had any problems with other upgrades.  I did check the log, and this is what it told me:

ERROR: The runtime configuration check failed for the library 'libGL.so.1.0.8178' (expected: '/usr/lib/libGL.so.1', found: '/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1').

I'm not exactly sure what to do about that.  I did check the CVS log entry, and it looks like the latest version <code>'fixed remove of xorg-server files'</code>.  Any ideas?

hipsis

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Registered: 2006-01-16

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

The same problem. I did rm -rf /usr/X11R6/libGl* after that pacman -R nvidia && pacman -S nvidia, but now i have problem with icons on my kde (((

elasticdog

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

Found a proposed solution on the mailing list to <code>pacman -R nvidia</code>, then manually remove <code>/usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA-dynamic.so.1</code>, and then reinstall <code>nvidia</code>, but that didn't work either.  It did get rid of my first error message regarding that specific file, but the error remains in the installation log and it will not complete.

hipsis

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Registered: 2006-01-16

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

Error in KDE fixed by this: pacman -Rd libxpm mesa mesa-apps && pacman -S libxpm mesa mesa-apps

tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

you error message says /usr/X11R6
well you haven't removed this path from your filesystem,
/usr/X11R6 shouldn't have any file in it and should be removed.

monsieurseb

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Registered: 2005-04-12

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

Same problem here but the path is different 

ln: `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so': fichier existant.
If you need more information about setting up nvidia drivers have a look at:
"http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How_to_install_NVIDIA_driver"
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 is empty, not checked.

tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

hmm your error sounds strange, i don'T know which packages include your file that is empty, seems like a libgl-dri file.
try this:
pacman -R nvidia
pacman -S xorg-xserver
pacman -S nvidia

monsieurseb

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

problem solved with :

pacman -R nvidia
pacman -S nvidia

elasticdog

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

you error message says /usr/X11R6
well you haven't removed this path from your filesystem,
/usr/X11R6 shouldn't have any file in it and should be removed.

SOLVED: I followed tpowa's advice and removed <code>/usr/X11R6/</code> completely.  I also upgraded to the new package (nvidia-1.0.8178-15)...not sure which fixed it, but it's working now!  Thanks!

RaLX

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Registered: 2005-10-17

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

I'm receiving this same message too:
"ln: `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so': file exist."
with latest nvidia-legacy driver, although it finish installation "correctly" but then GLX fails to load every time I run X.

Reinstalled previous version to solve it meanwhile, but anyone knows what's the exact problem?.

tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

problem is again pacman related.
you upgraded probably xorg-server with it.
server removed libglx.so so you needed to reinstall nvidia after it to get libglx.so back.

monsieurseb

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

same probleme here with an another computer and nvidia-legacy.
glx is break.

i'm receiving this message:
"ln: `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so': file exist."

I've tryd with remove reinstall xorg but glx still broken ...

Any idea ?

Edit : after installing nvidia-legacy

[root@archtest sbt]# ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/
total 928
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  19937 2006-03-04 12:39 libdbe.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  34883 2006-03-04 12:39 libdri.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 151584 2006-03-04 12:39 libextmod.so
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2006-03-05 11:10 libglx.so
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 651460 2006-03-07 09:50 libglx.so.1.0.7174
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  29317 2006-03-04 12:39 librecord.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  40187 2006-03-04 12:39 libxtrap.so

monsieurseb

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Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

Bug solved !

juste do that :

cd  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/
ln -s libglx.so.1.0.7174 libglx.so

and

chmod go+x libglx.so.1.0.7174

tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,323

Re: Nvidia "INSTALLATION FAILED!" Error [SOLVED]

nvidia-legacy-18 will solve that linking problem.
greetings
tpowa