/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib*GL.so are missing despite package 'libglvnd-dev' being installed

[Daniel van Vugt]

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib*GL.so are missing despite package 'libglvnd-dev' being installed.

$ dpkg -L libglvnd-dev
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/share
/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/libglvnd-dev
/usr/share/bug/libglvnd-dev/control
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libglvnd-dev
/usr/share/doc/libglvnd-dev/copyright
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenGL.so
/usr/share/doc/libglvnd-dev/changelog.Debian.gz

$ ls -ld `dpkg -L libglvnd-dev`
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so': No such file or directory
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Dec 4 11:42 /.
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Dec 3 15:40 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 156 root root 4096 Dec 5 10:49 /usr/lib
drwxr-xr-x 100 root root 94208 Dec 5 11:15 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 10 19:50 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLdispatch.so -> libGLdispatch.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 10 19:50 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLX.so -> libGLX.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Aug 10 19:50 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenGL.so -> libOpenGL.so.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 284 root root 12288 Dec 5 10:49 /usr/share
drwxr-xr-x 105 root root 4096 Dec 4 12:11 /usr/share/bug
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 4 12:11 /usr/share/bug/libglvnd-dev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 Aug 10 19:13 /usr/share/bug/libglvnd-dev/control
drwxr-xr-x 1957 root root 69632 Dec 5 11:15 /usr/share/doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 4 12:11 /usr/share/doc/libglvnd-dev
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug 10 19:50 /usr/share/doc/libglvnd-dev/changelog.Debian.gz -> ../libglvnd0/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4697 Aug 10 19:13 /usr/share/doc/libglvnd-dev/copyright

I think this was probably triggered by me installing and removing both nvidia-390 and nvidia-340 yesterday. So maybe it's a bug related to those.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: libglvnd-dev 1.1.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 5 11:21:38 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-04 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20181203)
SourcePackage: libglvnd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Workaround:

sudo apt install --reinstall libglvnd-dev

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

should be a bug in nvidia then, if it doesn't restore then on uninstall?

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

this is a bug in nvidia-340 which doesn't update the links on remove

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Felix Moreno (info-justdust)]

same problem here, testing the workarround