Wrong version of libgles1-mesa in Xenial-updates

[Fabio Ticconi]

Xenial-updates has the following packages:

- libgles1-mesa (12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
- libglapi-mesa (17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)

The first one depends on libglapi-mesa (= 12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1), but libglapi-mesa has a higher version and so there's a conflict.

I've had to remove libgles1-mesa for now, to avoid the conflict.

I have Linux Mint 18.1 but I believe it affects anyone using xenial-updates.

Source links I used to verify it's a xenial-updates problem:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/libs/libgles1-mesa
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/libglapi-mesa

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

When comparing the two different veresions, see [1] and [2], it looks like the underlying reason is that libgles1-mesa is no longer built so there's no newer version to replace the old one. I believe I have seen other bug reports regarding libgles1-mesa missing from newer mesa releases, but I can't find those at the moment, nor do I know if it has been intentionally removed.

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

[wixyvir (wixyvir)]

I am using a pressed with:

d-i base-installer/install-recommends boolean true

tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter, build-essential unattended-upgrades

d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none
d-i pkgsel/include git

And I am having the same issue.

[wixyvir (wixyvir)]

Is it VLC ? (https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/vlc) It depends on libgles1-mesa ?

ubuntu-mate-desktop depends on VLC.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

there is no libgles1-mesa for the new mesa, you need to fix your (ppa?) build of vlc to not use that, the stock xenial version was updated already

[Fabio Ticconi (koteko)]

I don't have a VLC ppa. I don't really understand what the problem is here, but if it's not Ubuntu-related I'll figure something out. Thanks.

[Frank Schwarz (framercy)]

This mesa update brings me seriousley into trouble because I seems to me that the now missing libgles1-mesa runs Blender into an error at program start!

framercy@helios ~/bin/blender-2.78c-linux-glibc219-x86_64 $ ./blender
Read new prefs: /home/framercy/.config/blender/2.78/config/userpref.blend
Received X11 Error:
 error code: 3
 request code: 155
 minor code: 4
 error text: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Error! Blender requires OpenGL 2.1 to run. Try updating your drivers.

framercy@helios ~/bin/blender-2.78c-linux-glibc219-x86_64 $ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request: 155 (NV-GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 4 ()
  Resource id in failed request: 0x5200003
  Serial number of failed request: 37
  Current serial number in output stream: 37

I use Linux Mint 18.1 Mate 64bit and all things worked fine until the mesa update!

I make my money with Blender so a fast solution would be very nice.

THX

[Frank Schwarz (framercy)]

After uninstalling the original NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.13 driver and replacing it with nvidia-graphics-drivers-384.59 from repository ppa:graphics-drivers the problem with Blender is solved for me.

Initially I had to use original Nvidia driver because at this time there wasn't a suitable driver for the GTX 1080TI graphic card in the repositories.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

could you run 'apt-cache rdepends libgles1-mesa' and paste the output here.. I'd like to know where the dependency is coming from

[Oliver Wendland (oleander)]

Probably I have the same problem - see bug # 1709823. Today evening I'll try to run 'apt-cache rdepends libgles1-mesa' and paste it here.

[Oliver Wendland (oleander)]

There you are - that is the output of 'apt-cache rdepends libgles1-mesa':
libgles1-mesa
Reverse Depends:
  libgles1-mesa-dev
  libgles1-mesa-dev
  libgles1-mesa-lts-xenial
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic
  libgles1-mesa-dev
 |vlc
  libopentk1.1-cil
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic

Hopefully this serves your needs...

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

alright, that doesn't show packages not in a repo.. anyway, marking as a dupe

[Dibo (dibo20)]

I had same problem few months ago with Linux Mint 18.1 KDE and VLC daily ppa. Solved it by removing ppa xorg-edgers but few weeks ago it came back on Mint 18.2 (IIRC not immediately after update to 18.2). Again related to VLC:

astępujące pakiety zostaną zaktualizowane:
  libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa
3 pakietów aktualizowanych, 0 instalowanych, 0 do usunięcia i 0 nieaktualizowanych.
Do pobrania 165 kB archiwów. Zwolnione po rozpakowaniu: 1024 B.
Następujące pakiety mają niespełnione zależności:
 libgles1-mesa : Wymaga: libglapi-mesa (= 12.0.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ale zaplanowana jest instalacja wersji 17.0.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.
Następujące działania rozwiążą problemy z zależnościami:

     Usunięcie następujących pakietów:
1) libgles1-mesa
2) vlc

It is always (same as previous time) proposing uninstall VLC and mesa. I'm pressing "n" so it propose to keep old version and this is how I keep my distro updated, always keeping old version.
And this is my rdepends output:

apt-cache rdepends libgles1-mesa
libgles1-mesa
Reverse Depends:
  libgles1-mesa-dev
 |vlc
  libgles1-mesa-lts-xenial
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic
  libgles1-mesa-dev
 |vlc
  libopentk1.1-cil
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-wily
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic-dbg
  libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic

Also attached repo's screenshots