[envy] nvidia-glx fails to install during upgrade

Attached are the /var/log/dist-upgrade/ files.

Closing the update-manager task, its just the messenger here.

Here is the error:

Unpacking linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-13-386 (from .../linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-13-386_2.6.20.4-13.12_i386.deb) ...
rver-xorg-video-vmware_1%3a10.15.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace nvidia-glx 1.0.9746 (using .../nvidia-glx_1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-13.12_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglx.so to /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx' clashes with `diversion of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to /usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.xlibmesa by nvidia-glx'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-glx_1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-13.12_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2

I suspect "envy" is responsbile for the failure, but I'm not familiar with this tool.

scorpioxy:
Can you indicate whether you had previously installed envy on this machine?

Setting to needsinfo pending reply from scorpioxy.

Yes i had previously installed envy and used it to install the nvidia driver. This is mentioned in the bug description.

scorpioxy:
Indeed you did. My apologies about that - I've been staring at hundreds of bugs over the past few days. Setting back to unconfirmed. This is probably a dup of other "upgrade fails after using envy" bugs like bug #107915

No problem. Thanks for all the hard work. Anything i can do to help, let me know.

bug #107915 on the surface resembles this bug except that his log of the upgrade process contains several additional issues. Plus there's the issue that here, it complained about the diversion and then returned the pre-installation error code. Oh, and also his computer froze(so he says at the top) while mine simply aborted the upgrade process. We do seem to have envy in common so maybe envy is writing out the pre-installation script in a wrong way after the driver compilation. I tried to look at the envy source code, but i am not a python person so i couldn't quite understand it.

scorpioxy:
I *think* it's simply a dependency chain problem. If you pull up the nvidia-glx deb before you run the updater you should be able to work around the issue (you this this at your own risk though!)...

There are other updater/envy bugs (like Bug #105115 ) that might be a better fit for your issue.

Thanks, but like i said in my bug report, i fixed the issue a long time ago. I've been running feisty for a while now and i am no longer using envy. I reported this bug so that you know that something was causing upgrades to fail and if it is really envy's fault, then the author should be informed. Feel free to close this bug if you think that it is already reported and will be taken care of in another bug report.

Rejecting this bug as there are others that are very similar still open.