Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-28 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On a system where I have been successfully mixing stable & backports I hit the same dependency problem. So I think this is a recent change. I tried to dig a bit further to see if I could flush out the cause. TL;DR libegl1-glvnd-nvidia, which I previously installed from backports, is only

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 03:57:51PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Because I suspect something on your system is causing some packages to > be picked from backports and some from stable. That's what's breaking. > So try and remove any custom configuration you have for apt and then it > should

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:04:19PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2018-08-22 04:31, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver > > nvidia-driver: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 384.130-1 > > Version table: > > 390.77-1~bpo9+1 200

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2018-08-22 04:31, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver > nvidia-driver: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 384.130-1 > Version table: >390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 > 200

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 22:35 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > > Are you sure? Your first email showed the priority of one pkg as > > "990" > > rather than the default 500 > > I agree it is strange but apt-cache priority scores > never make any sense to me. > > $ /bin/ls

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > I tried to dig deeper into the source of the conflict. The crude script below tries to pull out any conflicts that the recursive dependencies of nvidia-egl-icd have and looks for overlap with the

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
> > Are you sure? Your first email showed the priority of one pkg as "990" > rather than the default 500 I agree it is strange but apt-cache priority scores never make any sense to me. $ /bin/ls /etc/apt/preferences.d/ backports I tried the obvious experiment $ cat

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 21:08 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > > > > > Hi, > > > > From your logs, it seems you have a non-standard > > /etc/apt/preferences* > > files. Can you please share them? > >

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Vincent McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > > Hi, > > From your logs, it seems you have a non-standard /etc/apt/preferences* > files. Can you please share them? # cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports Explanation: Low priority to avoid

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-22 Thread Luca Boccassi
Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 12:31 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > Package: nvidia-driver > Version: 384.130-1 990 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > >    * What led up to the situation? > >    I had a working stretch system using nouveau. >    I wanted to try the

Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies

2018-08-21 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Package: nvidia-driver Version: 384.130-1 990 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I had a working stretch system using nouveau. I wanted to try the nvidia drivers, since I had used them in jessie, on the same hardware. * What exactly did you do (or