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** Description changed:

  It's a nightmare to find out you have to look through a huge log dump to
  work out what went wrong with a simple driver install.
  
  Turns out Jockey depends on being able to get a dpkg lock, and if
- another GUI like Synaptic is running at the same time, this will fail,
- and tell you.
+ another GUI like Synaptic is running at the same time, this will fail in
+ an invisible script running hidden behind the gui, and tell you...
  
  Sorry, the installation of this driver failed.
- Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log 
+ Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log
  
  What should happen instead - Jockey should pause and interactively tell
  you to shut down Synaptic (or whatever package manager has the lock) in
  order to be able to proceed further. Perhaps easier, it should check on
  this before beginning the process.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: jockey-common 0.9.4-0ubuntu10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jan  4 00:30:21 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N5110
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=af952950-f353-4188-9c39-5d5de004eab5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: jockey
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A06
  dmi.board.name: 0HVRTT
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A06
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd05/26/2011:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN5110:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0HVRTT:rvrA06:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
  dmi.product.name: Inspiron N5110
  dmi.product.version: Not Specified
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911541

Title:
  Dell N5110 (Q15R) - Jockey silent fail if Synaptic running - stock
  NVidia drivers on stock Oneiric

Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It's a nightmare to find out you have to look through a huge log dump
  to work out what went wrong with a simple driver install.

  Turns out Jockey depends on being able to get a dpkg lock, and if
  another GUI like Synaptic is running at the same time, this will fail
  in an invisible script running hidden behind the gui, and tell you...

  Sorry, the installation of this driver failed.
  Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log

  What should happen instead - Jockey should pause and interactively
  tell you to shut down Synaptic (or whatever package manager has the
  lock) in order to be able to proceed further. Perhaps easier, it
  should check on this before beginning the process.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: jockey-common 0.9.4-0ubuntu10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jan  4 00:30:21 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N5110
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=af952950-f353-4188-9c39-5d5de004eab5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: jockey
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A06
  dmi.board.name: 0HVRTT
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A06
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd05/26/2011:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN5110:pvrNotSpecified:rvnDellInc.:rn0HVRTT:rvrA06:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
  dmi.product.name: Inspiron N5110
  dmi.product.version: Not Specified
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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