fglrx-updates broken dependency with xorg-video-abi-12 (Quantal)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Unassigned | ||
fglrx-installer-updates (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Alberto Milone |
Bug Description
fglrx needs updated in quantal for the xserver 1.13 API.
[Workaround]
Use the FOSS -ati driver.
[Original Report]
I run updates today on my quantal box.
I have a ATI Madison [Radeon HD 5000M Series] and the updates removes the xserver-
When I restart, all xserver is broken because /usr/bin/X cannot be found. I even don't have vesa or fbdev for start with "startx" command.
I install with recovery mode xserver-
If I install the packages xserver-
So I try to install fglrx-updates, and it conflicts with a dependency of a virtual package that it is not provided anymore
sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fglrx-updates : Depends: xorg-video-abi-12
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-12
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package xorg-video-abi-12 is a virtual package provided by:
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.
E: Package 'xorg-video-abi-12' has no installation candidate
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: fglrx-updates (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 3 16:54:41 2012
InstallationMedia:
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-05 (59 days ago)
Changed in fglrx-installer-updates (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
summary: |
Changed in nvidia-drivers-ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | nvidia-drivers-ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
no longer affects: | linux (Ubuntu) |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.