virtualbox-guest-x11 ABI break in quantal

Bug #1036186 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
virtualbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Timo Aaltonen

Bug Description

Attempting to install virtualbox-guest-x11 in quantal results in:-

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 virtualbox-guest-x11 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-12

$ apt-cache policy virtualbox-guest-x11

virtualbox-guest-x11:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.1.18-dfsg-1build1
  Version table:
     4.1.18-dfsg-1build1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: virtualbox-guest-x11 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-9.9-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-9-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 13 14:21:53 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120627)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

yep, virtualbox needs a patch to build against the new video abi in -proposed.

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
status: New → Triaged
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

fixed in quantal-proposed

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Dmitry Pankratov (dremon) wrote :

Although it installs correctly now there are video issues with this release. The desktop is totally unusable (tested under Nvidia and Intel desktops).

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Maarten Lankhorst (mlankhorst) wrote :

I can verify 2d works at least, 3d seems to have fallout glitching from llvmpipe :)

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

yep, closing this bug

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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