Package: fglrx-driver
Version: 8.18.6-1
Severity: serious
Justification: 2
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Steps to reproduce:
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1. Install Debian Sarge on a IBM/Lenovo T43p Notebook with a ATi FireGL
Graphics Card
2. Install the fglrx-driver for the Graphics Card
3. (At this point everything's fine)
4. Update /etc/apt/sources.list replacing Sarge with Etch sources
Contents of the sources.list file:
deb ftp://130.59.10.35/mirror/debian etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb http://people.debian.org/~kay/debian/ stable php5-xdebug
5. apt-get update
6. apt-get dist-upgrade
Problem description:
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The dist-upgrade failed at x11-common. It showed a configuration screen
for
x11-common which explains that it failed and that one should remove
all files from /usr/X11R6/bin/ and then try to install the package
again.
Page showing the config message and errors:
http://tools.gallery2.org/pastebin/1381
/usr/X11R6/bin/ had the following files:
aticonfig fgl_glxgears fglrxconfig fglrxinfo fglrx_pplay
fglrx_xgamma
/fireglcontrol fireglcontrolpanel
First I tried to move those files away and calling apt-get dist-upgrade
again.
Which failed (see the above mentioned pastebin).
Then I put the files back in place.
I tried the suggestd apt-get install -f which failed with the same
issues.
I tried removing fglrx-driver with
apt-get remove fglrx-driver fglrx-control-qt3
but that failed (see http://tools.gallery2.org/pastebin/1387) with a
huge list of packages and the suggestion to run apt-get install -f to
resolve the problem. Which wouldn't work either.
Workaround:
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To finish the upgrade, I uninstalled the packages fglrx-driver and
fglrx-control-qt3 with:
dpkg -r --force-depends fglrx-driver && dpkg -r --force-depends
fglrx-control-qt3
This removed most files from /usr/X11R6/bin/.
I had to manually remove the file
rm /usr/X11R6/bin/fireglcontrolpanel
Then I could run:
apt-get install -f
And finally I could complete my upgrade to Etch:
apt-get dist-upgrade
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=de_CH, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages fglrx-driver depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++
Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
pn xserver-xfree86 <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages fglrx-driver recommends:
pn fglrx-kernel <none> (no description available)
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