Nvidia Driver Permission denied
 

I have just updated to the latest current and am unable to install the Nvidia driver.

It was working before on the 2.6.33.2 kernel but am getting permission denied now.

Make sure X is not running.

Thanks its not and not even getting far enough to check.

Make the installer file executable.

I tried that as well even though calling it with sh has saved me from having to do that in the past.

That's unusual, it looks like you're running it as root. Are you sure it is not corrupt, try downloading again.

You are thinking along the same lines as me.

Things i have tried

reboot selecting huge kernel at lilo
checking i am root
older driver version (have a few)
re-downloaded

All give the same error its not even getting far enough to write an error log so i don't know where to go from here.

I don't know if this is relevant but i have just been trying to install mozilla-nss (3.12.4) from slackbuilds.org and getting another Permission denied problem.

If someone could try building the package under current and let me know if my system is screwed again that would be nice. Or if someone has any ideas that would be even better.

Make sure the permissions of /tmp are:

tmp is almost the same as yours has a 16 where you have 7 does that matter?

Just thought i have been able to install other packages, i manage to build and install chrome with sbopkg which is why i now need the nss package

I have checked google again today for both the nvidia and nss problems and have come up with nothing.

Does anyone have any ideas where i should be looking or which packages from the last few updates could have caused this? I have tried reinstalling the kernel packages with no change and will no work back through the changelogs 1 by 1.

The permissions problem may be resolved by a change in ownership or group. I would make sure that the directories (excluding /home, of course) you are working out of have the correct owner and group. For example, /tmp should be owned by root and the group should be root. I feel that something has messed up your root ownership and possibly group thingy. That happened to me once before, and I had to change an entire directory and all subfolders to get it back. I have no clue as to what the cause was.

I have messed up permisons in the past a few time. Once with a poorly edited slackbuild script i changed half my home dir to root.

Thanks i will take a look and see if i can see any thing.

I re-installed the Nvidia driver when I upgraded to current so I don't think it's an inherent issue with -current.

I also have the latest (updated yesterday) -current with 2.6.33.3 kernel and yesterday I re-installed nvidia driver with no problems. driver file was NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg1.run for GeForce 9500gt.

Also I just tried that mozilla-nss package from sbo and it built and installed just fine.

Sorry looks like a specific problem with your permissions rather than a general problem with current.

It seems you are onto something i have just copied a the file which was causing problems with the nss build to my home dir and it ran but if i try to run it from the tmp dir it fails even thought the permissions are fine


I think there is some thing in fstab which will stop things being run so will look into that later thanks again.

pg99 Thanks for that at least i now know its 100% me again!

Do you get any output from

I have commented out the line in fstab and everything is now working thanks for all the help. I will look into the correct fstab settings after i fix chrome as i dont know how i managed to use ff for so many years it seem terrible now.

What worked for me was to run the NVidia script with a -x, then cd into the directory created and run the ./nvidia-installer directly.

Remove the noexec flag from tmpfs in /etc/fstab and remount /tmp