Bug#597986: ia32-libs: fails to install

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Monday, 27. September 2010 21:57:54 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Diego Lopez Leon <dieguitoll at gmail.com> writes:
...
> > sandia:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_20100919_amd64.deb
> > (Reading database ... 325361 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking ia32-libs (from .../ia32-libs_20100919_amd64.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_20100919_amd64.deb (--install): unable
> > to create `/usr/lib32/nvidia/diversions/libGL.so.1.2.dpkg-new' (while
> > processing `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2'): No such file or directory
...
> I think the problem is that /usr/lib32/nvidia/diversions/ does not exist
> while there still is a diversion for /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 to that
> place. Please run the following commands and send the output to this bug:
>
> dpkg -S libGL.so.1.2
> ls -lhd /usr/lib32
> ls -lhd /usr/lib32/nvidia
> ls -lhd /usr/lib32/nvidia/diversions
> ls -lh /usr/lib32/nvidia/diversions
>
> I'm reassigning the bug to nvidia on the above assumption.

Do you have a /emul directory? Did you by chance upgrade lib32gcc1 to 
1:4.4.4-12 (from unstable) or 1:4.5.1-4 (from experimental) recently (these 
packages were around for a very short time around September 3rd)? These two 
versions had a bug that could delete your /usr/lib32. In that case 
reinstalling/updating libgl1-nvidia-alternatives would have restored the lost 
diversion target directory.

Did you upgrade some really ancient nvidia package recently (after 
libgl1-nvidia-alternatives was installed for the first time)?

(You can probably find some history of your install/upgrade activity 
in /var/log/dpkg*)

Why did you install ia32-libs by hand? Was this an upgrade or a new 
installation? If this was a new installation, why did you have 
libgl1-nvidia-alternatives previously installed at all?


Andreas