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You can resolve the problem downloading latest nvidia drivers (NVIDIA-
Linux-x86-270.41.19.run) from nvidia website and executing installer
manually.

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       Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775935

Title:
  in natty, nvidia kernel module does not seem to install, or nvidia
  installer crashes

Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV:
  New
Status in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I had opened this bug for ubiquity but since 11.04 was released, it now seems to be an nvidia/kernel bug, at least i can now get 11.04 to install, but it wont boot afterwards.  
  The ubiquity bug was marked as a duplicate or another bug, which it is probably not, but that bug is:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/744553

  Since no-one will probably look at that one anymore, i am opening this one...
  Here is what i posted earlier:

  ok i tried the released 11.04 today and this is what i found:

  pretty much the same as last week, but I have more info this time:

  to reproduce, i:

  1. booted with the 11.04 release cd and selected install (vs. boot
  into live cd mode). I did not change any command line entries, i.e.
  remove "quiet splash" or add noapic, etc.

  2. selected install alongside windows 7

  3. selected the option to install the third-party codecs, etc. but did
  not select the check-box to download updates(i thought that this may
  have been a problem in pre-release, in that it was failing to update
  the nvidia driver which also somehow disables the driver included on
  the cd).

  4. after the install finishes, click reboot.

  5. on reboot the splash screen displays for a very short time doesn't
  seem to animate at all, and then everything seems to freeze(if i hit
  caps lock or num lock no lights appear)

  6. reboot again by holding the power button in. At the grub screen
  select 'e' to edit the selected boot entry. remove "quiet" and
  "splash" from the kernel line and select ctrl-x to boot

  7. the log messages come up and i notice a few things there. (i will
  attach a picture that I took of it):

  init: ureadahead-other main process (626) terminated with status 4
  init: udev-fallback-graphics main process (675) terminated with status 1

  ... later on ...

  starting automatic crash report generation [fail]

  8. a few lines later the machine becomes unresponsive

  Once i boot back into windows, i can mount the ext drives and i got
  the install, etc. logs from them which i will also post.