Everett, Vernon wrote:

Hi all

OK, this is the strangest thing I have ever seen.

We are running Red Hat EL3 A few weeks back, we compiled hobbit into a rpm, and installed the client on this machine.

Now we are trying to update the video driver, and we get this.

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2.run -ans

Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 169.04........................................................................................................................................... ERROR: Unable to create '/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/selfgz8167/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2/usr/lib32/libnvidia-cfg.so.169.04' for copying (No such file or directory) WARNING: Unable to restore file '/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/selfgz8167/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2/usr/lib32/libnvidia-cfg.so.169.04'. WARNING: Unable to perform the runtime configuration check for library 'libcuda.so.1' ('/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.169.04'); assuming successful installation.

If we remove the hobbit RPM and rename the /usr/lib/hobbit directory to something else, it works.

Has anybody seen anything like this before?

Yes, it was at least a year ago, and I was looking at hobbit-4.1.2 IIRC. It was the same sort of bizarre environment poisoning you describe, and I also saw it when trying to update nvidia drivers.

Joe