Upgrade intrepid->jaunty beta: removal of xorg-driver-fglrx

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

I just upgrade a small acer PC from intrepid to jaunty beta an ran into this problem:

The machine has a
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

That's why I had the xorg-driver-fglrx installed. When upgrading, the upgrade-manager told me that this would not be available anymore, but obviously failed to remove it properly. After upgrading, X does not start anymore:

# X

X.Org X Server 1.6.0
Release Date: 2009-2-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-23-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux proton 2.6.28-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 09:00:52 UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 28 March 2009 03:09:51AM
xorg-server 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu6 (<email address hidden>)
 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 28 12:18:10 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
None
X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so: undefined symbol: atiddxAbiDixLookupPrivate

The reason:

# dpkg -S /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
diversion by xorg-driver-fglrx from: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
diversion by xorg-driver-fglrx to: /usr/lib/fglrx/libdri.so.xlibmesa
xserver-xorg-core, xorg-driver-fglrx: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so

After
# dpkg --purge fglrx-amdcccle xorg-driver-fglrx

it ran into different problems which I still have to figure out. The machine runs with the Ubuntu Jaunty LiveCD, but not after upgrading from intrepid, so there's something more wrong with the upgrade path.

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Well, after re-installing the fglrx-driver, the problem is here again, so it does not seem to be a problem of the upgrade path, but of jaunty's xorg-driver-fglrx package.

[Gordon Hopper (gohopper)]

This might be a duplicate of bug #285603.