Bug#769191: xorg: apt-get dist-upgrade somehow reconfigured my system to use the nvidia driver, even though I have no nvidia hardware

2014-11-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
I don't seem to have ever had pyopencl installed, so that can't be the culprit. Looking through my apt history, it looks like the critical operation that gave me nvidia stuff was the installation of libboost (!?): Start-Date: 2014-06-01 13:05:09 Commandline: apt-get install libboost-all-dev Inst

Bug#769072: Bug#769191: xorg: apt-get dist-upgrade somehow reconfigured my system to use the nvidia driver, even though I have no nvidia hardware

2014-11-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 at 21:47:12 +, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > Here's my apt history files. history.log.1 has the big upgrade that > caused the problem; history.log has the mucking about I did to fix it. OK, thanks. At the top of history.log.1 you have: Upgrade: ... nvidia-libopencl1:amd64 (340

Bug#769072: Bug#769191: xorg: apt-get dist-upgrade somehow reconfigured my system to use the nvidia driver, even though I have no nvidia hardware

2014-11-17 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Here's my apt history files. history.log.1 has the big upgrade that caused the problem; history.log has the mucking about I did to fix it. Notice that the big upgrade got interrupted in the middle by libaudio2 failing to install (#768651), so there was some 'apt-get install -f' and 'dpkg --configu

Bug#769191: xorg: apt-get dist-upgrade somehow reconfigured my system to use the nvidia driver, even though I have no nvidia hardware

2014-11-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 at 02:08:34 +, Nathaniel J. Smith wrote: > This evening I ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my 'testing' system, rebooted, > and > found the system unusable -- it just came up with gdm3's "Oh no! Something has > gone wrong!" screen. > > It turns out that the problem is that so

Bug#769191: xorg: apt-get dist-upgrade somehow reconfigured my system to use the nvidia driver, even though I have no nvidia hardware

2014-11-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 02:08:34 +, Nathaniel J. Smith wrote: > Package: xorg > Version: 1:7.7+7 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > This evening I ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my 'testing' system, rebooted, > and > found the system unusable -- it just came up