libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link

[Adrien Beau]

I first encountered this bug in nvidia-375, everything was fine in nvidia-367. Here is a previous bug report, which was marked as fixed (but only in Zesty, if I understand correctly): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-367/+bug/1674677

Here is an adaptation of the comment I wrote at the time, adapted to the new package version and values:

I have the following warnings every time APT runs the libc-bin trigger:

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link

The warning is correct:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libEGL.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 oct. 5 15:19 /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libEGL.so -> libEGL.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73312 sept. 20 01:58 /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20192 sept. 20 01:58 /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.384.90

$ ls -l /usr/lib32/nvidia-384/libEGL.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 oct. 5 15:19 /usr/lib32/nvidia-384/libEGL.so -> libEGL.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61404 sept. 20 02:44 /usr/lib32/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15012 sept. 20 02:44 /usr/lib32/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.384.90

All the files appear to be valid ELF binaries, but with significant differences in size. I have no idea which one to remove and replace by a symlink.

Ubuntu release: 16.04
Source package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-384
Package version: 384.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[pavel bursa (bursap)]

Ubuntu 16.10.3 LTS also confirmed for new Nvidia driver.
Ge force GT 640 PCIe SSE2, Intel core i3-4160, Asrock Z97 Extreme 6

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/nvidia-384/libEGL.so.1 is not a symbolic link

[John Wiedenhoeft (c-jo4n-5)]

Confirmed for Ubuntu 16.10.3 LTS.

[John Wiedenhoeft (c-jo4n-5)]

This proposes a fix: https://88plug.com/linux/nvidia-384-libegl-so-1-is-not-a-symbolic-link-solved/