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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
During last upgrade, the glx-alternative-nvidia package (0.6.91 /
unstable) failed to configure. Here's the output : <br>
<br>
>root@GOGI: apt-get upgrade<br>
> ...<br>
> ...<br>
> <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">Treatment
of</span> <span class="hps">deferred shares</span> <span
class="hps atn">("</span><span>triggers</span><span>") for</span>
<span class="hps">nvidia</span><span class="atn">-</span><span>glx</span><span>-alternative</span>
<span class="hps atn">(</span><span>0.6.91</span><span>)</span> <span
class="hps">...</span><br>
<span class="hps">> update-alternatives</span><span>:</span> <span
class="hps">error: The</span> <span class="hps">/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf</span>
<span class="hps">alternative link</span> <span class="hps">is
already</span> <span class="hps">managed by</span> <span
class="hps">nvidia</span><br>
<span class="hps">> dpkg:</span> <span class="hps">package</span>
<span class="hps">error processing</span> <span class="hps">nvidia</span><span
class="atn">-</span><span>glx</span><span>-alternative</span> <span
class="hps atn">(</span><span>--configure</span><span>)</span><span>:</span>Â
<span class="hps">subprocess</span> <span class="hps">installed</span>
<span class="hps">post-installation</span> <span class="hps">script</span>
<span class="hps">returned</span> <span class="hps">error exit</span>
<span class="hps">status</span> <span class="hps">2</span></span><br>
> ...<br>
> ...<br>
> <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">Errors
were</span> <span class="hps">encountered while processing</span><span>:
</span>Â <span class="hps">nvidia</span><span class="atn">-</span><span>glx</span><span>-alternative</span><br>
<span class="hps">> E</span><span>: Sub</span><span>-process /</span>
<span class="hps">usr</span> <span class="hps">/ bin</span> <span
class="hps">/ dpkg</span> <span class="hps">returned</span> <span
class="hps">an</span> <span class="hps">error</span> <span
class="hps atn">code (</span><span>1)<br>
<br>
and<br>
<br>
> root@GOGI:/home/gogi# dpkg -l | grep glx-alternative-nvidia<br>
> iF glx-alternative-nvidia              Â
0.6.91Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â amd64Â Â Â Â Â Â Â allows the
selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider<br>
</span></span><br>
<br>
<br>
Actually my Debian Sid system was running on the experimental nvidia
driver version (352.41-1) when this happened. When I restarted it, I
fell on tty login screen instead of gdm login one.<br>
This was caused by the failing configuration process, as the nouveau
driver was loas instead of the nvidia one, because of no more
"nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf" file in /etc/modprobe.d which
should normally blacklist the nouveau driver.<br>
Doing it manually solves the problem.<br>
<br>
I tried to downgrade nvidia-driver to unstable version (340.93-4),
thinking that it may solve temporarily the issue as its version from
unstable repository or some of its dependencies may not be already
compatible with glx-alternative-nvidia (0.6.91), but that operation
neither could be done, as the glx-alternative-nvidia package which
is pushed in unstable repository (0.6.91) breaks some of the
dependencies (as i.e. nvidia-alternative (<340.93.-5), while the
version available in unstable is still (340.93-4).<br>
<br>
<br>
Greetings<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b>Goran LAZAREVIC</b></div>
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