FW: Re: Bug#737492: glx-diversions: Leaves dangling diversions after uninstallation

[Andrei POPESCU]

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:55:06 +0200
From: Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu at gmail.com>
To: Brendon Green <debian at tech.geek.nz>, 737492 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#737492: glx-diversions: Leaves dangling diversions after uninstallation
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Control: reassign -1 src:glx-alternatives

On Lu, 03 feb 14, 17:48:20, Brendon Green wrote:
> Source: glx-diversions
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I am in the process of upgrading my system from mixed (preferring stable)
> to mixed (preferring unstable), in order to take advantage of recent advances
> in nouveau.
> 
> In preparation for this, I removed all packages related to the nvidia binary
> driver, including glx-diversions.  I am not sure which version of
> glx-diversions caused the problem, as I have been swapping between versions
> in an attempt to improve graphics performance.  Excerpt from aptitude.log is
> below.
> 
> When an attempt was made to upgrade libgl1-mesa-glx, it was discovered that
> the following diversions were in effect, pointing to the nonexistant
> directory /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/:
> 
> sudo dpkg-divert --list | grep 'mesa\|glx'
> ----
> diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions
> diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1 by glx-diversions
> diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions
> diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2.0 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions
> diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions
> diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so by glx-diversions
> diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions
> ----
> 
> Removing these erroneous diversions (using dpkg-divert --remove) then allowed
> the upgrade of libgl1-mesa-glx to succeed.
> 
> When installing the nvidia driver, I have used only packages in Debian.  I
> have not, at any time, used nvidia-installer on this system.
> 
> zcat /var/log/aptitude.1.gz | cat - /var/log/aptitude | grep glx-diversions
> ----
> [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] glx-diversions:amd64
> [REMOVE] glx-diversions:amd64
> [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] glx-diversions:amd64
> [REMOVE] glx-diversions:amd64
> [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] glx-diversions:amd64
> [UPGRADE] glx-diversions:amd64 0.2.2 -> 0.4.0~bpo70+1
> [REMOVE] glx-diversions:amd64
> [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] glx-diversions:amd64
> [REMOVE] glx-diversions:amd64
> [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] glx-diversions:amd64
> [REINSTALL] glx-diversions:amd64
> [DOWNGRADE] glx-diversions:amd64 0.4.1 -> 0.2.2
> [REMOVE] glx-diversions:amd64
> ----
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing-updates
>   APT policy: (900, 'testing-updates'), (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (500, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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