last thing i tried in terminal before i give up tonight sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
and this is what happened which looked like what happened when i tried to fix it in package manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done fglrx-amdcccle is already the newest version. fglrx-amdcccle set to manually installed. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: account-plugin-windows-live libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-calc-xs-perl libmpdec2 libupstart1 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: fglrx 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/22.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 102 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 1320084 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb ... Moving ati dir to /etc for the fglrx-core transition dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) i hope posting here for help is the right thing. this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD said to come and report if i had issues with additional drivers, but wasn't sure what i should do from that page so i just tried the above. was afraid to mess things up too bad. when i tried that beta from additional drivers years ago it messed things up so bad i only had black screen and it took five hours to figure out how to fix it from the bootup. couldn't tell you what i did that finally fixed it lol. thanks in advance for your help. this really sucks... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511301 Title: Failed to upgrade fglrx from 14.502 to 15.200 on Trusty. Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in fglrx-installer source package in Trusty: In Progress Bug description: SRU Request: [Impact] Upgrading from the upstream fglrx driver packages to the packages in the Ubuntu repository fails because the /etc/ati directory is a real directory instead of being a link (which was common in the Ubuntu packages). [Test Case] 1. Install the fglrx driver (14.502) in Ubuntu 14.04 generating deb packages from the AMD installer 2. Upgrade the package to the current ubuntu release. 3. Check the apt-get output Expected results: the fglrx module should be updated correctly. Actual results: The update fails as described below. [Regression Potential] Low. The change only affects a migration from a specific release. ______________________________________ Note that the fglrx 14.502 package name is fglrx_14.502-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb, which is from AMD's site, not from Ubuntu repository. Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for gconf2 (3.2.6-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... (gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:22930): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk- pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory This likely means that your installation is broken. Try running the command gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache to make things work again for the time being. Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.26+nmu4ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-0ubuntu2) ... (gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0:23024): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk- pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory This likely means that your installation is broken. Try running the command gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache to make things work again for the time being. Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.5) ... Processing 1 changed doc-base file... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_amd64.deb Log ended: 2015-10-22 05:31:11 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1511301/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
