during unpack: unable to create `/usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.xserver-xorg-core.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so'): No such file or directory

[Pim Bollen]

Binary package hint: update-manager

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Update fromKubuntu 9.10

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The relevant error is
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Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-core ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.7.6-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `/usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.xserver-xorg-core.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so'): No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

affecting to dpkg

[yavoh (anish-bramhandkar)]

Simply using Synaptic to fix broken packages after the upgrade failed fixed any problems for me. I haven't seen any evidence of instability.

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

The problem is not really in dpkg but in the package that setup the diversion without creating the directory in which the file is diverted. I guess it has been corrected in the mean time in the nvidia packages.

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

Reassigning to nvidia drivers to ensure the bug has been fixed already.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.