On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:07:55 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote:
> I broke my Etch-i386-Installation yesterday (on an Acer-Aspire-1700 Laptop):
>
> After an normal aptitude-update (updating of xorg components and some other
> stuff), X refuses to work. The problem is that I used VMware with WindowsXP
> and a cow-management software for my farm. So I can not use this essential
> software anymore. Quick help is needed!
>
> I localized the problem:
>
> dpkg is not able to install the new version of the xserver-xorg-core package
> (1.0.2-9 to 1.1.1-10), because of problems with the directory and file
> structure and the file libglx.so. The error looks like this:
>
> (Reading database ... 184077 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xserver-xorg-core (from
> .../xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.1.1-10_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.1.1-10_i386.deb (--install):
> unable to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so': No such file
> or directory
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.1.1-10_i386.deb
>
> Because aptitude installed already other updated xorg components the
> X-installation broke.
>
> I tried to delete the X-installation completely. This worked. But the new
> installation of xorg with xserver-xorg-core gave the same error
>
> dpkg tries to install xserver-xorg-core but does not finish because of
> libglx.so.
>
> So I can not even install any xorg-component neither use it.
>
>
> At the beginning of the problem I had the nvidia-binary-drivers installed. So
> I thought they messed up the libglx.so, but after I removed them nothing
> changed.
>
> Thank you for reading this, I hope we find a solution to this!
I suspect the problem is caused by a dpkg diversion. Please post the
output of
egrep '(nvidia|libglx)' /var/lib/dpkg/diversions
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Regards,
Florian
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