Bug#801330: glx-alternative-nvidia upgrade failed

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-10-16 03:10, Goran LAZAREVIC wrote:
> Actually my Debian Sid system was running on the experimental nvidia
> driver version (352.41-1) when this happened. When I restarted it, I
> fell on tty login screen instead of gdm login one.

the experimental drivers still need to be updated for the changes in
glx-alternative-nvidia


> I tried to downgrade nvidia-driver to unstable version (340.93-4),
> thinking that it may solve temporarily the issue as its version from
> unstable repository or some of its dependencies may not be already
> compatible with glx-alternative-nvidia (0.6.91), but that operation
> neither could be done, as the glx-alternative-nvidia package which is
> pushed in unstable repository (0.6.91) breaks some of the dependencies
> (as i.e. nvidia-alternative (<340.93.-5), while the version available in
> unstable is still (340.93-4).

the -5 drivers have been built already and should be available after the
next dinstall run and mirror push


Andreas