dpkg-divert mismatch when upgrading or reinstalling nvidia-glx-180

Hi anders-kaseorg,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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This is a bug in the packaging, so `lspci -vvvn` and Xorg.0.log aren’t relevant here.

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 180.37-0ubuntu1

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (180.37-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #335879).
    - Fixed a problem that caused signals to be blocked in some applications.
    - Fixed a problem that could cause Xid errors and display corruption in
      certain cases when OpenGL is used to render to redirected windows, for
      example when Java2D is used with the -Dsun.java2d.opengl=true option.
    - glGetStringi(GL_EXTENSIONS, i) no longer returns NULL in OpenGL 3.0
      preview contexts.
    - Fixed a problem that caused the screen to flicker momentarily when
      OpenGL applications exit unexpectedly on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
    - Fixed an X server crash when an X client attempts to draw trapezoids
      and RenderAccel is disabled.
    - Improved recovery from certain types of errors.
    - VDPAU updates:
      o Fixed corruption on some H.264 clips.
      o Update documentation.
      o Fixed VC-1 decoding on 64-bit platforms.
      o Improved handling of invalid H.264 streams.
      o Fixed a problem that caused surfaces to be marked as visible too
        early when the blit presentation queue is in use.
  * nvidia-glx-VER.preinst:
    - Remove diversion on /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 to
      /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa instead of
      /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xserver-xorg-core (LP: #333550).
  * debian.binary/patches/nvidia-rt-compat.patch:
    - Restore compatibility with -rt kernels. Thanks to Alessio Igor Bogani
      for the patch.
  * debian/dkms.conf.in:
    - Make sure that the patch for -rt kernels is applied only to 2.6.28.x
      kernels.

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:27:20 +0100

Currently the upgrade fails with:

Preparing to replace nvidia-glx-180-dev 180.35-0ubuntu1 (using .../nvidia-glx-180-dev_180.37-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/libGL.so' with
  different file `/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.xlibmesa', not allowed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-180-dev_180.37-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: regarding .../nvidia-glx-180_180.37-0ubuntu1_i386.deb containing nvidia-glx-180:
 nvidia-glx-180-dev conflicts with nvidia-glx-180 (>= 180.36)
  nvidia-glx-180 (version 180.37-0ubuntu1) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx-180_180.37-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 conflicting packages - not installing nvidia-glx-180

Filippo: your problem seems more like the one described in bug 335621

Thanks Alberto, you're right, I don't know dpkg enought to distinguish the two errors :)

I still get:

dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
  when removing `diversion of /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xserver-xorg-core by nvidia-glx-180'
  found `diversion of /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx-180'
Unpacking replacement nvidia-glx-180 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nvidia-glx-180 (180.11-0ubuntu1~intrepid1) ...

I know this bug is related to nvidia driver, but I got a similar problem with xorg-driver-fglrx.

I tried to ireplace the xorg-driver-fglrx for non-free fglrx-driver:

# apt-get install module-assistant fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src
...The following extra packages will be installed:
  fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-glx fglrx-glx-ia32 fglrx-source
....
Removing xorg-driver-fglrx ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
  when removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib32/libGL.so.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib32/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx'
  found `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib32/libGL.so.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib32/fglrx/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx'
dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
xorg-driver-fglrx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm running debian lenny in kernel 2.6.26 amd64. Hope this dpkg bug will be solved somehow. Maybe a patch?

This is not a dpkg bug; it was a bug in the nvidia packaging that has now been fixed. Please report a separate bug against the fglrx packaging.