Bug#803793: glx-alternative-nvidia: configure failed after update

[gpe]

Le Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:53:06 +0000
Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> a écrit:

> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 21:05 +0100, gpe92 wrote:
> > Package: glx-alternative-nvidia
> > Version: 0.6.93
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > After the testing updates of today the package failed to configure
> > and now the xserver doesn't start.
> > Here is the error message during the apt-get upgrade:
> > 
> > update-alternatives: error: alternative
> > link /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf is already managed by nvidia
> > 
> > BR
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > Versions of packages glx-alternative-nvidia is related to:
> > pn  glx-alternative-fglrx
> > <none> ii
> > glx-alternative-mesa                                       0.6.93
> > ih  glx-alternative-nvidia
> > 0.6.93 pn
> > libgl1-dev                                                 <none>
> > ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]
> > 10.6.8-1 ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx
> > [libgl1-nvidia-glx-any]                  346.72-1 ii  nvidia-driver
> > [nvidia-glx-any]                             346.72-1 ii
> > xserver-xorg-video-nvidia [xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-any]  346.72-1
> 
> You have a version of nvidia-driver that is no longer in the archive,
> 346.72-1. Did you install the drivers from experimental and never
> upgraded again at some point between June 17th and July 21st?
> 
> Please either downgrade to the version in testing/unstable or upgrade
> to the version in experimental and report back if the problem
> persists.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi
> 

Ok you're right. I had an old experimental version of nvidia-driver.
I've tried to update to the 352.55-2 but the installation failed with a
kernel panic during the setting up of libgl1-nvidia-glx ...

BR.

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gpe <gpe92 at free.fr>