[gobolinux-users] Installing nVIDIA Re: Problems while and after installing Gobo Linux

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Heikki Pesonen wrote:
...
> Untill the following step, everything went well, but then
>> $ ./InstallNvidia NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run
> The procedure did not find CC or GCC compilers installed.
> 
> During the installation of Gobo Linux 013 I got a lot of error messages like
> " cp: writing `/Mount/GoboLinux///Programs
> /GCC/4.1.1/Shared/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/cpplib.mo':
>    Input/output error"

I can think of these reasons for those errors:

* The install CD was corrupt (something wrong with the downloaded image,
or something went wrong when burning it)
* Your CD-ROM drive is broken or not fully supported by linux
* Your root partition is messed up or your harddrive is dying

You could try reiserfsck on your harddrive and see if it finds any
corruptions (if you're using ReiserFS that is!).

> At now:
> [code]
> root at UkinGobo /Programs]ls GCC
> 4.1.1  Current
> root at UkinGobo /Programs]cd Current
> cd: no such file or directory: Current

Here you forgot to 'cd GCC'.
('ls GCC' lists the contents of the directory GCC, you can use 'ls -d
GCC' to list the actual directory entry and not its contents.)

> root at UkinGobo /Programs]cd 4.1.1
> cd: no such file or directory: 4.1.1
> root at UkinGobo /Programs]
> [/code]
> 
> I can not see if there is a GCC compiler or not.

Try 'gcc -v'

> The
> log file '/System/Variable/log/nvidia/geforce-install.log' is so long
> that I include only part of it here:
> 
> [code]
> -> found `depmod` : `/System/Links/Executables/depmod`
> -> License accepted by command line option.
> WARNING: The path to the `modprobe` utility reported by
>          '/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe', `/sbin/modprobe`, differs from the path
>          determined by `nvidia-installer`,
>          `/System/Links/Executables/modprobe`.  Please verify that
>          `/sbin/modprobe` works correctly and correct the path in
>          '/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe' if it does not.
> -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; this means
>    that the installer will need to compile a new kernel interface.
> -> Checking development tools:
> ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure
>        that you have the package 'gcc' installed.  If gcc is installed on your
>        system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH.
> [/code]
> 
> Propably I should download and install GCC-compiler again?

All sorts of things might be messed up since you got I/O errors on a lot
of files during installation. But you can start by doing 'SymlinkProgram
GCC', if that doesn't help, do 'InstallPackage GCC'.

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