Ubuntu
nvidia-common package

  1. Bug #292606
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 292606

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Mike Stroyan (stroyan) wrote :

Flushing stdout is not going to help with this problem.
As I said in comment #17, the error is caused by /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller sending text to debconf via stdout.
Flushing output within /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common won't undo that error.
Debconf has already gotten the bad command before /etc/kernel/postinst.d/nvidia-common is started.

Patching /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms to redirect stdout DOES FIX the problem.
Adding "1>&2" to the invocation of /etc/init.d/dkms_autoinstaller keeps stdout clean.