HWE upgrade to lts-xenial stack fails if fglrx is installed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Brian Murray | ||
xorg-server-lts-xenial (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Brian Murray |
Bug Description
Trying to upgrade from the lts-vivid, lts-utopic, or lts-wily stack to the lts-xenial stack as recommended by hwe-support-status creates a situation the apt problem resolver can not sort out due to fglrx being deprecated in 16.04. update-manager should notify you that fglrx is no longer supported, and xserver-
Test Case
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1) Install fglrx on a 14.04 system
2) Install the lts-wily hwe stack
3) Run sudo apt-get install $(hwe-support-
You'll encounter an error message like the following:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgl1-
xserver-
With the version of xserver-
Original Description
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The bug is described on the ubuntu forum => https:/
ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-77-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Aug 26 23:28:52 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-05 (417 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
PackageArchitec
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile.
Related branches
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
assignee: | Brian Murray (brian-murray) → nobody |
summary: |
- update-manager crashes + HWE upgrade to 16.04 stack fails if fglrx is installed |
summary: |
- HWE upgrade to 16.04 stack fails if fglrx is installed + HWE upgrade to lts-xenial stack fails if fglrx is installed |
description: | updated |
affects: | xorg-lts-transitional (Ubuntu) → xorg-lts-xenial (Ubuntu) |
Changed in xorg-lts-xenial (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in xorg-lts-xenial (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Thanks for taking the time to report the bug. Could you also run "apt-clone clone" and then add the resulting apt-clone.tar.gz as an attachment to this bug report? It'd be really helpful.