Bug#632566: glx-alternative-nvidia: nvidia's GLX is not set as a alternative for glx

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-07-03 17:39, Daniel 'DaB.' Baur wrote:
> Package: glx-alternative-nvidia
> Version: 0.1.3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Hello,
> the yesterday update-run broke my system. The X-server is not starting
> anymore, because it misses the nvidia-driver. Because the nvidia driver is
> still there and the yesterday-update removed/changed GLX-packages, I guess
> the problem is at the changing of the GLX-system.

I don't see any nvidia driver packages installed on your machine. So no
alternative registered.

This bug needs to be reassigned to some other package, but I'm not sure
where.

The full transcript of your upgrades should be recorded in
/var/log/apt/term.log etc.

> I noticed, that
> 
> 17:30:24root at dabpc:~# update-alternatives --list glx
> /usr/lib/mesa-diverted
> 
> lists only mesa but no nvidia, so I guess there is a problem with the
> alternative-trigger. The trigger-file for nvidia in the source-package is
> rather short (compared with the for mesa or fglrx), so I guess it is
> incomplete. I noticed that a similar problem was there with fglrx (Bug
> 631680).

No, it's sufficient, because it's a two stage trigger, the file-triggers
all belong to nvidia-alternative.

> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     32 Jul  3 16:52 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so -> /etc/alternatives/glx--libglx.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 426497 Jul 18  2008 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.173.14.09
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 426657 Aug 15  2008 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.debian
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424173 Jun  1  2007 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.old

There seem to be some ancient files from unknown sources lying around:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.*

Andreas