[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#748821: Bug#748821: fglrx-modules-dkms: Removal scripts of this package are incomplete.

[Patrick Matthäi]

What is the output of:
dpkg -l|grep fglrx

Am 21.05.2014 05:25, schrieb Gordon Garmaise:
> Package: fglrx-modules-dkms
> Version: 1:12-6+point-3
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
>     * What led up to the situation?
> 	The system in question has a AMD/ATI HD Radeon chip set and I attempted to use this package to enable 3D acceleration.  This was not sucessful.
>     * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
> 	The GUI (Gnome in this case) became unavailable.
> 	Purging the package did not restore previous Xorg functionality.
> 	Reinstalling xorg / xorg-common  did not resolve the issue.
> 	Using "find" to locate and delete the "*fglrx*" files under /lib also failed to solve the problem.
> 	Boot logs revealed the "fglrx" module had persisted in the initramfs.
> 	Removed the line for fglrx from /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.  Then "update-initramfs -u".
>     * What was the outcome of this action?
> 	GUI interface now available after reboot.
>     * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 	I expected that purging the packape would thuroughly remove all traces of the package and revert to the previous functioning xorg configuration.
> 	I recommend that flgrx be removed from /etc/initramfs-tools/modules at a minimum on purge along with a suggestion to delete other files.
> 	This may apply to flgrx-source as well.
> *** End of the template - remove these lines ***
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.5
>    APT prefers stable-updates
>    APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages fglrx-modules-dkms depends on:
> pn  dkms  <none>
>
> fglrx-modules-dkms recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages fglrx-modules-dkms suggests:
> pn  fglrx-driver  <none>
>
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