Package: nvidia-glx Severity: normal After installing the new nvidia-glx-legacy and removing, but not purging, nvidia-glx, you can no longer purge nvidia-glx. dpkg fails in the postrm attempting to remove diversions that no longer exist:
----- r...@monstro:~# dpkg -P nvidia-glx (Reading database ... 162441 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nvidia-glx ... Purging configuration files for nvidia-glx ... rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/libGL.so': No such file or directory dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx' found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/nvidia/diversions/libGL.so.1 by libgl1-nvidia-alternatives' dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: nvidia-glx ----- I worked around it by inserting 'exit 0' in an appropriate place in the postrm file (obviously not the proper fix!). ...Marvin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
