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Jiskya
Asked: 2012-04-29 07:46:18 +0800 CST

"Additional Drivers" program crash help on 12.04?

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When I select the "Additional Drivers" program, it searches for available drivers but becomes unresponsive shortly after. I tried closing it, to try again, but now it just blinks 3 times when I select it. Any ideas to work around this? I'm unsure if there's a driver I need. My network connection seems fine, though.

Edit: When I use the command jockey-gtk, I get an error message that ends with:

Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus
security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection
was broken.
drivers 12.04

2 Answers

  1. Try starting it from a terminal: jockey-gtk. See if it displays any error regarding the crash.

    Alternatively there is jockey-text if the graphical version would fail.

    In case of problems you'd probably want to read the backend debug log (/var/log/jockey.log). Try this:

    • In a terminal window type tail -f /var/log/jockey.log
    • Press a few Enters in the same window to separate the new output from the old lines.
    • Now start the "Additional Drivers" utility. The terminal window should start to log debug messages as the driver check is carried out.
    • The last few lines might contain information about what is going wrong.

    (Be warned there will be quite a couple of lines.)

    There is a related Launchpad bug #912236 (#864572) confirming your error message:

    Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

    But no solution so far.

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  2. I wasn't able to get jockey working either, no matter what i tried. However i did find a workaround. If you haven't already, install the synaptic package manager from the software center. From synaptic you can search for the driver you are trying to install and install through there.

    The only downside is you have to know the name of the driver you are looking for, but some googling should be able to answer that for you.

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