Debian Bug report logs - #640814
nvidia-glx not installable

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrea Veri <and@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: nvidia-glx not installable

Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 18:11:09 +0200

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Package: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
Version: 280.13-4
Severity: important

Hi,

while updating my sid system a few hours ago I noticed something went 
wrong on reboot. My screen went black and no actions could be taken. I 
rebooted on safe mode and tweaked a bit my xorg.conf (re-generated it 
through Xorg -configure), that trick usually made everything working 
correctly on the next boot.

The problem was still there, I logged back on a root shell and noticed 
there were problems with the 'xserver-xorg-video-nvidia' package. I 
then went to remove nvidia-kernel-dkms bits and had back my desktop. 
Trying to manually install the above package takes me to:

"The following packages have unmet dependencies:

xserver-xorg-video-nvidia : Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it's not 
installable or xorg-video-abi-8 but it's not installable or 
xorg-video-abi-6.0 but it's not installable

E: Damaged Packages"

I then went to check which package produced those binary files and the 
result was: 'xserver-xorg-core'. Packages should never directly depend 
on virtual packages. Can you please get rid of that and explain me 
what's going on with the 'xserver-xorg-video-nvidia' package?

Thanks in advance,

Andrea

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Message #10 received at 640814@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>

To: Andrea Veri <and@debian.org>, 640814@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#640814: nvidia-glx not installable

Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:34:58 +0200

reassign 640814 nvidia-glx
forcemerge 639737 640814
found 639737 285.03-1
found 639737 280.13-4
affects 639737 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
thanks

On 2011-09-07 18:11, Andrea Veri wrote:
> while updating my sid system a few hours ago I noticed something went 
> wrong on reboot. My screen went black and no actions could be taken. I 

You should have noticed some package conflict/removal/... before the
upgrade ... apt-get/aptitude would have told you that.

> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia : Depends: xorg-video-abi-10 but it's not 
> installable or xorg-video-abi-8 but it's not installable or 
> xorg-video-abi-6.0 but it's not installable

xserver-xorg-core in unstable only provides xorg-video-abi-11, the NEW
abi, that is not compatible with the nvidia driver. But the driver works
fine with the older xserver-xorg-core from testing and squeeze.

> I then went to check which package produced those binary files and the 
> result was: 'xserver-xorg-core'. Packages should never directly depend 

An additional dependency on xserver-xorg-core wouldn't have helped
without abi support.

> on virtual packages. Can you please get rid of that and explain me 
> what's going on with the 'xserver-xorg-video-nvidia' package?

nvidia does not yet support Xorg Xserver 1.11. Stay with
xserver-xorg-core 1.10.x from testing until they fix this.

Andreas

Message #29 received at 640814@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrea Veri <and@debian.org>

To: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>

Cc: 640814@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#640814: nvidia-glx not installable

Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:30:28 +0200

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On Wed, 07 Sep 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> You should have noticed some package conflict/removal/... before the
> upgrade ... apt-get/aptitude would have told you that.

I unfortunately noticed those too late.
 
> xserver-xorg-core in unstable only provides xorg-video-abi-11, the NEW
> abi, that is not compatible with the nvidia driver. But the driver works
> fine with the older xserver-xorg-core from testing and squeeze.

I tried to downgrade xserver-xorg-core to 1.10.4-1 (package from 
testing) but I am still unable to set up nvidia drivers and dkms 
correctly. Apt-get still reports me unment dependencies errors as 
reported on this pastebin. [1] (yes, it's italian, but I'm sure you'll 
understand its output. That's what apt-get reports me when I try to 
install 'xserver-xorg-video-nvidia' or 'nvidia-kernel-dkms', it then 
asks me to run apt-get -f install and that will get back the updated 
xserver-xorg-core package 1.11.x series) 
 
> An additional dependency on xserver-xorg-core wouldn't have helped
> without abi support.

sure, but consider fixing that when the ABI issue will be fixed.
 
> nvidia does not yet support Xorg Xserver 1.11. Stay with
> xserver-xorg-core 1.10.x from testing until they fix this.

See above. Nvidia drivers are totally unusable at the moment.

cheers,

Andrea

[1] http://paste.debian.net/128861/

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Message #34 received at 640814@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>

To: Andrea Veri <and@debian.org>

Cc: 640814@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#640814: nvidia-glx not installable

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:55:24 +0200

On 2011-09-08 17:30, Andrea Veri wrote:
> I tried to downgrade xserver-xorg-core to 1.10.4-1 (package from 

you need to downgrade the whole Xorg stack ...

I just tried in a pbuilder chroot which has unstable and testing sources available:

apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all
# installs 1.11.0 from unstale and a lot of packages depending on it,
# probably matching your setup

apt-get remove xserver-xorg-core
# remove the whole xorg stack

apt-get install nvidia-glx xserver-xorg-core/testing
# get the invidia packages from unstable + xorg from testing

apt-get install -t testing xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all
# reinstall the removed packages from testing


Remove + reinstall as two steps seems to be easier than downgrading in one step


Andreas

Message #39 received at 640814@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrea Veri <and@debian.org>

To: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>

Cc: 640814@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#640814: nvidia-glx not installable

Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:06:27 +0200

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On Thu, 08 Sep 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> On 2011-09-08 17:30, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > I tried to downgrade xserver-xorg-core to 1.10.4-1 (package from 
> 
> you need to downgrade the whole Xorg stack ...
> 
> I just tried in a pbuilder chroot which has unstable and testing sources available:
> 
> apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all
> # installs 1.11.0 from unstale and a lot of packages depending on it,
> # probably matching your setup
> 
> apt-get remove xserver-xorg-core
> # remove the whole xorg stack
> 
> apt-get install nvidia-glx xserver-xorg-core/testing
> # get the invidia packages from unstable + xorg from testing
> 
> apt-get install -t testing xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all
> # reinstall the removed packages from testing

Thanks for the workaround, it worked as expected.

cheers,

Andrea

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