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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

xserver-xorg-video-radeon has insufficient (even missing) dependency on libdrm-radeon1

Bug #507618 reported by Michael Bienia
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xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

During a partial upgrade from karmic to lucid, I wanted to restart X after updating the X packages but it didn't come back.
Looking at the gdm log the error could be found pretty fast:
  /usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so: undefined symbol: radeon_cs_create

At this point xserver-xorg-video-radeon was already updated to 1:6.12.99+git20091125.0061c4db-0ubuntu2 (lucid) while libdrm-radeon1 was still at 2.4.14-1ubuntu1 (karmic). Updating libdrm-radeon1 to 2.4.17-0ubuntu1 (lucid) fixed it and my X started again.

I looked then at the dependencies of xserver-xorg-video-radeon I saw that it's missing a dependency on libdrm-radeon1 at all:
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libpciaccess0, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900)
Looking further at the needed libraries of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so:
$ objdump -x /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so | grep NEEDED
  NEEDED libpixman-1.so.0
  NEEDED libdrm_radeon.so.1
  NEEDED libdrm.so.2
  NEEDED libpciaccess.so.0
  NEEDED libc.so.6
other needed libraries are missing in Depends too. While at least libpixman-1-0 and libdrm2 are pulled in through xserver-xorg-core depending on them (still are direct dependency would be better than a indirect one), libdrm-radeon1 is only pulled in through a recommendation:
$ aptitude why xserver-xorg-video-radeon libdrm-radeon1
i xserver-xorg-video-radeon Depends xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900)
i A xserver-xorg-core Recommends libgl1-mesa-dri (>= 7.1~rc1)
i libgl1-mesa-dri Depends libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.12)
But this doesn't assure that libdrm-radeon1 is installed at all and even in the correct version needed by xserver-xorg-video-radeon.

[lspci]
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Memory Controller [10de:0444] (rev a3)
     Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:5001]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV670PRO [Radeon HD 3850] [1002:9505]
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:0234]

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Howard Chu (hyc) wrote :

I'm hitting the same problem now, having just updated to Lucid Alpha 2 from Karmic. Unfortunately, my libdrm-radeon1 is already at the correct version and the problem persists. objdump -T confirms that /usr/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1 exports radeon_cs_create but I'm still getting this error. Quite puzzling...

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Howard Chu (hyc) wrote :

Never mind me.... I found an old libdrm in /lib. Deleting that fixed the issue.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi geser,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` and `dmesg`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you're using a custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

[This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]

tags: added: needs-xorglog
tags: added: needs-lspci-vvnn
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :

To be able to provided the needed logs, I had to uninstall libdrm-radeon1 (which went without problems).

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
dlopen: libdrm_radeon.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
(EE) Failed to load module "radeon" (loader failed, 7)

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :

After installing the version from karmic (libdrm-radeon1 2.4.14-1ubuntu1) on my lucid installation (nothing required a newer version).

(II) RADEON(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
/usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so: undefined symbol: radeon_cs_create

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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :
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Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
description: updated
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Robert Hooker (sarvatt) wrote :

Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
Version: 1:6.12.191-1ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.17), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.16), libpciaccess0 (>= 0.10.2), libpixman-1-0, xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900)

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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