Bug#600327: nvidia-glx conf fails with /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so dpkg-divert error

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2010-10-16 06:55, James Andrewartha wrote:
> I tried upgrading from nvidia-glx 190.53-4 to 195.36.31-5 on a machine that is
> mostly still lenny, but running a 2.6.32 kernel. Configuring nvidia-glx failed

What version of dpkg do you have installed?

> with a dpkg-divert error:
> 
> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so' with
>   different file `/usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.xlibmesa', not allowed

That happened during the cleanup of some ancient diversions. Looks like
you have some files on your system that I didn't encounter during my
upgrade tests.

Please send the output of

    ls -la /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
    ls -la /usr/lib/nvidia /usr/lib/nvidia/diversions
    dpkg -S /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
    dpkg -S /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.xlibmesa

and for the packages returned by the 'dpkg -S' commands, please send me
the version numbers that are currently installed on the machine
(dpkg -l package...).

Thanks.

Andreas