SDK install hang on Linux Install of SDK hangs

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Hi Folks,

I’ve installed a 8800GT on the headnode of a Beowulf cluster. The X driver and toolkit
install went without a hitch. However, when I try to run the SDK installer I get

[root@abacus CUDA]# ./NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK_1.1_Linux.run
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing NVIDIA CUDA SDK…

AND IT JUST HANGS!! uname -a returns (I’ve edited out the machine name)

Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 25 17:24:31 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Any would be greatly appreciated!

      Thanks,    Hans
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Hi Forum Folks,

I may have solved this problem.  When I executed the script using 

 sh -x ./NVIDIA_CUDA_SDK_1.1_Linux.run

It hung at the same place, but this time I simply pushed return (instead of Ctrl-C)
and it finished! Going back and looking at the output, I think it was waiting for
me to enter the install path or push enter for the default. For some reason the
question string was not being displayed so I did not know to do anything other
than wait. The CUDA folks may want to look into this.

 -  Hans
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Which shell are you using?
Is this a vanilla installation of RHEL4?

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Hi NVIDIA folks,

I’m not sure how to check this other than the uname output. But in /etc/issue

is

   [root@abacus ~]# cat /etc/issue

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5) [\l]

   Kernel \r on an \m

I haven’t gotten back to the install yet. My cluster vendor tells me I’m running

RHEL 4.3.

Thanks for the help, Hans

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Hans, this has been observed by other people on other Linuxes as well. It is not a bug of the installer. On SuSE for example, if you install a package called ‘buffer’ or similar, it buffers both console input and output, which is why the cursor prompt is invisible. Check whether some package is on your machine (rpm -qa | grep buffer)

Peter