Bug#769072: gnome-shell: GNOME Shell crashing with "Oh no, something went wrong"

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Nov 17 08:56:17 UTC 2014


Control: retitle 769072 libgl1-nvidia-glx and xserver-xorg-core but no xserver-xorg-video-nvidia breaks OpenGL

On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 at 01:26:53 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I don't think I can express this with package relationships:
> 
> libgl1-nvidia-glx needs to be installed
>   (1) together with xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (and xserver-xorg-core)
>       (regular installation on a host)
>   (2) OR without xserver-xorg-core (and xserver-xorg-video-nvidia)
>       (i.e. libraries from a foreign architecture only or in a chroot
>        without own xserver)
> i.e. only the combination
>   install libgl1-nvidia-glx:native
>   install xserver-xorg-core:native
>   no-install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
> should be forbidden.

Attempting to summarize that in < 100 characters as a new title, to
make sure this bug won't attract reports of any unrelated GNOME Shell
issues that happen to have the same symptoms.

Sorry, I can't see any way to express this requirement in dpkg dependencies
either.

    S



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