intrepid upgrade aborted (nvidia-glx-new would be removed)

[Reece H. Dunn]

Binary package hint: nvidia-glx-new

I tried running `update-manager -d` to upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid. After a while, the upgrade aborted.

In /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log, I see the following entries at the bottom of the file:

2008-07-15 21:30:56,678 DEBUG The package 'nvidia-glx-new' is marked for removal but it's in the removal blacklist
2008-07-15 21:31:25,392 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'An essential package would have to be removed'

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

Thank you for reporting this issue about a driver from the
linux-restricted-modules package. lrm-2.4.24 was shipped with Ubuntu
8.04 which reached end-of-life for desktop support on May 12th, 2011.

For that reason, this bug report is being closed at this time. I'm
marking it wontfix because what you describe is probably a valid issue,
but there are no plans to work on lrm 2.4.24 bugs further.

The issue may be resolved in a newer version. If not, aside from filing
a new bug report, another angle may be to file it directly with the
driver vendor.