Public bug reported:
Currently NVIDIA's upstream installer will emit a "The distribution-
provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue?"
message when /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install script returns error (which is
hard-coded to always return 1 no matter that ubuntu-provided NVIDIA
proprietary driver exist or not), logics should be implemented from
letting NVIDIA proprietary installer display that confusing message to
the user when the system is free of ubuntu-supplied NVIDIA proprietary
drivers.
`````````` /var/log/nvidia-installer.log `````````
-> Running distribution scripts
executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'...
-> done.
-> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want
to continue? (Answer: Continue installation)
```````````````````````````````````````````````
``````````` /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install ```````
#!/bin/sh
# Trigger an error exit status to prevent the installer from overwriting
# Ubuntu's nvidia packages.
exit 1
```````````````````````````````````````````````
** Affects: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Currently NVIDIA's upstream installer will emit a "The distribution-
provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue?"
message when /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install script returns error (which is
hard-coded to always return 1 no matter that ubuntu-provided NVIDIA
proprietary driver exist or not), logics should be implemented from
letting NVIDIA proprietary installer display that confusing message to
the user when the system is free of ubuntu-supplied NVIDIA proprietary
drivers.
+
+ `````````` /var/log/nvidia-installer.log `````````
+ -> Running distribution scripts
+ executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'...
+ -> done.
+ -> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you
want to continue? (Answer: Continue installation)
+
+ ```````````````````````````````````````````````
+
+ ``````````` /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install ```````
+ #!/bin/sh
+
+ # Trigger an error exit status to prevent the installer from overwriting
+ # Ubuntu's nvidia packages.
+
+ exit 1
+ ```````````````````````````````````````````````
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1481925
Title:
ubuntu-drivers-common should avoid "distro-provided-script error"
message from be shown in NVIDIA upstream driver installer when no
"Ubuntu's nvidia packages" are installed in the system.
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Currently NVIDIA's upstream installer will emit a "The distribution-
provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to
continue?" message when /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install script returns
error (which is hard-coded to always return 1 no matter that ubuntu-
provided NVIDIA proprietary driver exist or not), logics should be
implemented from letting NVIDIA proprietary installer display that
confusing message to the user when the system is free of ubuntu-
supplied NVIDIA proprietary drivers.
`````````` /var/log/nvidia-installer.log `````````
-> Running distribution scripts
executing: '/usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install'...
-> done.
-> The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you
want to continue? (Answer: Continue installation)
```````````````````````````````````````````````
``````````` /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install ```````
#!/bin/sh
# Trigger an error exit status to prevent the installer from overwriting
# Ubuntu's nvidia packages.
exit 1
```````````````````````````````````````````````
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