[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#482995: Bug#482995: nvidia-glx: fails to start; can't find libwfb

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:35:55AM -0400, Avery Fay wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx
> Version: 169.12-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> After upgrading to 169.12-2, X no longer starts.
> 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> 
> This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
> It is not supported in any way.
> Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
> Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
> Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
> latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
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> 
> X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
> Release Date: 5 September 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-4)
> Current Operating System: Linux polar 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 10 09:28:10 UTC 2008 x86_64
> Build Date: 29 April 2008  07:24:27PM

These two lines in the postrm script should have been run, but are not
in 169.12-2 (I just noticed that on testing it myself):

dpkg-divert --remove --rename --package nvidia-glx --divert /usr/lib/nvidia/libwfb.so.xserver-xorg-core /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so > /dev/null
rm -f /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.169.12 2> /dev/null || true

Running them manually should fix it.

The other option is to remove nvidia-glx and then reinstall it.  That
should clean it up.  The new version doesn't create that diversion
anymore, but we didn't get the upgrade quite right yet.

-- 
Len Sorensen