Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On a system where I have been successfully mixing stable & backports I hit the same dependency problem. So I think this is a recent change. I tried to dig a bit further to see if I could flush out the cause. TL;DR libegl1-glvnd-nvidia, which I previously installed from backports, is only in stable and not (any longer) in stretch-backports. Does this imply the dependencies of the backported nvidia-egl-icd need to be tweaked (drop libegl1-glvnd-nvidia)? Gory details: # apt -t stretch-backports install nvidia-egl-icd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-egl-icd : Depends: libegl1 (>= 0.2.999) but it is not going to be installed or libegl1-glvnd-nvidia but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. # apt-cache show nvidia-egl-icd | grep Depend | sed -e 's/, /\n/g' Depends: nvidia-egl-common libegl1 (>= 0.2.999) | libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libegl-nvidia0 (= 390.77-1~bpo9+1) Depends: nvidia-egl-common libegl1xxx (>= 0.2.999) | libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libegl-nvidia0 (= 390.48-2~bpo9+3) Depends: nvidia-egl-common libegl1 (>= 0.2.999) | libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libegl-nvidia0 (= 384.130-1) # dpkg -l libegl1 libegl-nvidia0 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==---= ii libegl-nvidia0:amd64 390.48-2~bpo9+3 amd64NVIDIA binary EGL library un libegl1 (no description available) # dpkg -l libegl1xxx libegl1-glvnd-nvidia Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==---= ii libegl1-glvnd-nvidia:a 390.48-2~bpo9+3 amd64Vendor neutral GL dispatch library -- libEGL un libegl1xxx (no description available) So as a starting point I have libegl1-glvnd-nvidia installed, instead of libegl1xxx or libegl1 (neither of which were ever installed). It seems that for some reason apt now wants libegl1 in preference to libegl1-glvnd-nvidia, despite the latter being the latest version. The preferences scoring comes out like this: # apt-cache policy libegl1 libegl1: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.0.0+git20180308-2~bpo9+1 Version table: 1.0.0+git20180308-2~bpo9+1 200 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages # apt-cache policy libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libegl1-glvnd-nvidia: Installed: 390.48-2~bpo9+3 Candidate: 390.48-2~bpo9+3 Version table: *** 390.48-2~bpo9+3 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 384.130-1 990 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages So it looks like libegl1-glvnd-nvidia has been removed from the backports suite? I checked what explicitly installing all the packages that can be upgraded would do, which may be of interest. # apt --simulate -t stretch-backports install `cat upgradable` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libegl1 libegl1-mesa libgl1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2 libgles2-mesa libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0 libglx0 libllvm6.0 libwayland-egl1 libwayland-egl1-mesa update-glx Recommended packages: libcuda1-i386 nvidia-settings nvidia-driver-libs-i386 libopengl0 | libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia libgles-nvidia2 nvidia-egl-wayland-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd The following packages will be REMOVED: libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx libglvnd0-nvidia libglx0-glvnd-nvidia The following NEW packages will be installed: libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libegl1 libgl1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgles2 libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0 libglx0 libllvm6.0 libwayland-egl1 The following packages will be upgraded: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libcu
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 03:57:51PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Because I suspect something on your system is causing some packages to > be picked from backports and some from stable. That's what's breaking. > So try and remove any custom configuration you have for apt and then it > should work. > I broke down and read apt_preferences(5) again and found this: If the target release has been specified then APT uses the following algorithm to set the priorities of the versions of a package. Assign: ... priority 990 to the versions that belong to the target release. The highest of those priorities whose description matches the version is assigned to the version. So I think my apt configuration is ok. I did the experiment (comment out default-release setting) but it still falls over: # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver nvidia-driver: Installed: (none) Candidate: 384.130-1 Version table: 390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch-backports/non-free amd64 Packages 384.130-1 500 500 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages # apt-get install nvidia-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-driver : Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 384.130-1) but it is not going to be installed or nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd (= 384.130-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. This preferences tweak kind of fixes the issue for me # cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports Explanation: Low priority to avoid installation unless explicitly required Package: * Pin: release a=stretch-backports Pin-Priority: 200 Explanation: Negative priority; mixing stable & backports not supported Package: nvidia* libnvidia* libegl* libgl* glx-* Pin: release a=stretch-backports Pin-Priority: -1 # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver nvidia-driver: Installed: (none) Candidate: 384.130-1 Version table: 390.77-1~bpo9+1 -1 100 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch-backports/non-free amd64 Packages 384.130-1 990 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages # apt-get install nvidia-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libglvnd0-nvidia libglx-nvidia0 libglx0-glvnd-nvidia libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-ml1 nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-modprobe nvidia-support nvidia-vdpau-driver update-glx xserver-xorg-video-nvidia Recommended packages: nvidia-settings nvidia-persistenced nvidia-driver-libs-i386 libopengl0 | libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia2 libnvidia-cfg1 nvidia-egl-wayland-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd The following NEW packages will be installed: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libglvnd0-nvidia libglx-nvidia0 libglx0-glvnd-nvidia libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-ml1 nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-modprobe nvidia-support nvidia-vdpau-driver update-glx xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 0 upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 29.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 119 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Thanks for your help with this Vince
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:04:19PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2018-08-22 04:31, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver > > nvidia-driver: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 384.130-1 > > Version table: > > 390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 > > 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian > > stretch-backports/non-free amd64 Packages > > 384.130-1 990 > > 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian > > stretch/non-free amd64 Packages > > We have had this before ... having both stretch and stretch-backports > enabled and trying to track stretch does not work currently for the > nvidia driver ... too many changes w.r.t. libglvnd etc. Thanks Andreas I disabled the backports package source and - voila. # apt-get install nvidia-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libglvnd0-nvidia libglx-nvidia0 libglx0-glvnd-nvidia libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-ml1 nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-modprobe nvidia-support nvidia-vdpau-driver update-glx xserver-xorg-video-nvidia Recommended packages: nvidia-settings nvidia-persistenced nvidia-driver-libs-i386 libopengl0 | libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia2 libnvidia-cfg1 nvidia-egl-wayland-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd The following NEW packages will be installed: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1-glvnd-nvidia libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libglvnd0-nvidia libglx-nvidia0 libglx0-glvnd-nvidia libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-ml1 nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-modprobe nvidia-support nvidia-vdpau-driver update-glx xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 0 upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 29.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 119 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Turn backports on again and it also works if I specify backports # apt-get -t stretch-backports install nvidia-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libdrm-common libdrm2 libegl-nvidia0 libegl1 libegl1-mesa libgl1 libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2 libgles2-mesa libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0 libglx-nvidia0 libglx0 libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-ml1 libwayland-egl1-mesa nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-modprobe nvidia-support nvidia-vdpau-driver update-glx xserver-xorg-video-nvidia Recommended packages: nvidia-settings nvidia-persistenced nvidia-driver-libs-i386 libopengl0 | libopengl0-glvnd-nvidia libgles-nvidia2 libnvidia-cfg1 nvidia-egl-wayland-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd The following NEW packages will be installed: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libdrm-common libegl-nvidia0 libegl1 libgl1 libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libgles2 libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0 libglx-nvidia0 libglx0 libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-ml1 nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-installer-cleanup nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-modprobe nvidia-support nvidia-vdpau-driver update-glx xserver-xorg-video-nvidia The following packages will be upgraded: libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libwayland-egl1-mesa 6 upgraded, 32 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded. Need to get 30.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 117 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. The diff of the installed packages is like so: --- stable.sort 2018-08-23 09:02:51.880118125 +1000 +++ backports.sort 2018-08-23 09:02:51.880118125 +1000 @@ -1,16 +1,25 @@ glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions -libegl1-glvnd-nvidia +libdrm2 +libdrm-common +libegl1 +libegl1-mesa libegl-nvidia0 -libgl1-glvnd-nvidia-glx +libgl1 +libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On 2018-08-22 04:31, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver > nvidia-driver: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 384.130-1 > Version table: >390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 > 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian > stretch-backports/non-free amd64 Packages >384.130-1 990 > 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian > stretch/non-free amd64 Packages We have had this before ... having both stretch and stretch-backports enabled and trying to track stretch does not work currently for the nvidia driver ... too many changes w.r.t. libglvnd etc. Andreas
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 22:35 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > > > > Are you sure? Your first email showed the priority of one pkg as > > "990" > > rather than the default 500 > > I agree it is strange but apt-cache priority scores > never make any sense to me. > > $ /bin/ls /etc/apt/preferences.d/ > backports > > I tried the obvious experiment > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/stable > Package: * > Pin: release a=stretch > Pin-Priority: 500 > > $ apt-cache policy nvidia-driver > nvidia-driver: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 384.130-1 > Version table: > 390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 > 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch- > backports/non-free amd64 Packages > 384.130-1 990 > 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian > stretch/non-free amd64 Packages > > > So you see why I don't spend much time trying to understand > prority scores. Because I suspect something on your system is causing some packages to be picked from backports and some from stable. That's what's breaking. So try and remove any custom configuration you have for apt and then it should work. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > I tried to dig deeper into the source of the conflict. The crude script below tries to pull out any conflicts that the recursive dependencies of nvidia-egl-icd have and looks for overlap with the dependencies of vlc. It suggests that some variant of libegl1 is the issue, but it's unclear why. The results it gives are confused by apt-cache displaying both the backports and stable versions of each package. The other clue I have to offer is that a simulated install of nvidia-egl-icd removes vlc and vlc-plugin-video-output, so I assume some dependency of the latter is the cause. It wants libegl1-mesa | libegl1-x11. libegl1-mesa is installed, libegl1-x11 is a virtual package which libegl1-mesa Provides:. #!/bin/sh TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/XX` CONF="$TMPDIR/conflicts" DEPS="$TMPDIR/dependencie" # nvidia-egl-icd conflicts list apt-rdepends nvidia-egl-icd | grep -v '^ ' | \ ( while read p do [ "X" = "X$p" ] && continue; apt-cache show $p | grep '^Conflicts:' | sed -e 's/Conflicts://' | \ awk -F, '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){print $i;};}' done ) | sort | uniq > "$CONF" # vlc dependency list apt-rdepends vlc | grep -v '^ ' | \ ( while read p do [ "X" = "X$p" ] && continue; apt-cache show $p | grep '^Depends:' | sed -e 's/Depends://' | \ awk -F, '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){print $i;};}' done ) | sort | uniq > "$DEPS" while read pkg ver do grep -w "$pkg" "$DEPS" done < "$CONF" rm -rf "$TMPDIR"
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
> > Are you sure? Your first email showed the priority of one pkg as "990" > rather than the default 500 I agree it is strange but apt-cache priority scores never make any sense to me. $ /bin/ls /etc/apt/preferences.d/ backports I tried the obvious experiment $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/stable Package: * Pin: release a=stretch Pin-Priority: 500 $ apt-cache policy nvidia-driver nvidia-driver: Installed: (none) Candidate: 384.130-1 Version table: 390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch-backports/non-free amd64 Packages 384.130-1 990 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages So you see why I don't spend much time trying to understand prority scores. Perhaps something in apt.conf is causing the score to come out higher? $ grep -v '^#' /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "stretch"; APT::Cache-Limit "5250"; APT::Install-Recommends "false"; APT::Install-Suggests "false"; APT::Clean-Installed "false"; Acquire::Pdiffs "false"; Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "false"; Aptitude::Install-Recommends "false"; Aptitude::Install-Suggests "false"; Aptitude::Keep-Recommends "true"; Aptitude::Keep-Suggests "true"; Aptitude::Delete-Unused "false"; Aptitude::Remove-Unused "false"; Aptitude::Show-Deps "true"; Aptitude::Show-Size-Changes "true"; Aptitude::Verbose 0; Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false"; Aptitude::Suggests-Important "false"; Vince
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 21:08 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > > > > > Hi, > > > > From your logs, it seems you have a non-standard > > /etc/apt/preferences* > > files. Can you please share them? > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports > Explanation: Low priority to avoid installation unless explicitly > required > Package: * > Pin: release a=stretch-backports > Pin-Priority: 200 > > This is the only one I have in place. Are you sure? Your first email showed the priority of one pkg as "990" rather than the default 500 -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > > Hi, > > From your logs, it seems you have a non-standard /etc/apt/preferences* > files. Can you please share them? # cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports Explanation: Low priority to avoid installation unless explicitly required Package: * Pin: release a=stretch-backports Pin-Priority: 200 This is the only one I have in place. Thanks Vince --
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 12:31 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote: > Package: nvidia-driver > Version: 384.130-1 990 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > > I had a working stretch system using nouveau. > I wanted to try the nvidia drivers, since I had used them in > jessie, > on the same hardware. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver > nvidia-driver: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 384.130-1 > Version table: > 390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 > 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/de > bian stretch-backports/non-free amd64 Packages > 384.130-1 990 > 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/de > bian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages > > # apt-get install nvidia-driver > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you > have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the > unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been > created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >nvidia-driver : Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 384.130-1) but > it is not going to be installed or > nvidia- > driver-libs-nonglvnd (= 384.130-1) but it is not going to be > installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > I expected the driver stack to be installed > > * Things I tried > > # apt-get install nvidia-driver-libs > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you > have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the > unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been > created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >nvidia-driver-libs : Depends: nvidia-egl-icd (= 384.130-1) but > it is not going to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > # apt-mark showhold |wc > 0 0 0 > > # apt-get install nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following package was automatically installed and is no > longer required: > dkms > Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. > The following additional packages will be installed: > glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1- > nvidia libgl1-nvidia-glx libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore > nvidia-alternative nvidia-support > Suggested packages: > nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-source > Recommended packages: > nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-384.130 nvidia-driver- > libs-nonglvnd-i386 libglx-nvidia0 libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia2 > libnvidia-cfg1 nvidia-egl-wayland-icd nvidia-nonglvnd-vulkan- > icd > The following NEW packages will be installed: > glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1- > nvidia libgl1-nvidia-glx libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore > nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd nvidia-support > 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 961 kB/14.8 MB of archives. > After this operation, 63.3 MB of additional disk space will be > used. > ^C > > I have no idea what nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd is > (how would I find out if I should be selecting it?), > and bug 887063 has a comment > (nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd is still buggy there ...) > So I tried another option > > # apt-get install nvidia-driver nvidia-egl-icd > [sudo] password for mci156: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no > longer required: > liba52-0.7.4 libaa1 libass5 libavc1394-0 > libbasicusageenvironment1 libcaca0 > libdc1394-22 libdca0 libdvbpsi10 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 > libebml4v5 > libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libgroupsock8 libkate1 > liblivemedia57 liblua5.2-0 > libmad0 libmatroska6v5 libmicrodns0
Bug#906903: nvidia-driver: broken(?) dependencies
Package: nvidia-driver Version: 384.130-1 990 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I had a working stretch system using nouveau. I wanted to try the nvidia drivers, since I had used them in jessie, on the same hardware. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? # apt-cache policy nvidia-driver nvidia-driver: Installed: (none) Candidate: 384.130-1 Version table: 390.77-1~bpo9+1 200 200 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch-backports/non-free amd64 Packages 384.130-1 990 990 http://debian-archive.atnf.csiro.au:/debian stretch/non-free amd64 Packages # apt-get install nvidia-driver * What was the outcome of this action? Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-driver : Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 384.130-1) but it is not going to be installed or nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd (= 384.130-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected the driver stack to be installed * Things I tried # apt-get install nvidia-driver-libs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-driver-libs : Depends: nvidia-egl-icd (= 384.130-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. # apt-mark showhold |wc 0 0 0 # apt-get install nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: dkms Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1-nvidia libgl1-nvidia-glx libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore nvidia-alternative nvidia-support Suggested packages: nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-source Recommended packages: nvidia-kernel-dkms | nvidia-kernel-384.130 nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd-i386 libglx-nvidia0 libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia2 libnvidia-cfg1 nvidia-egl-wayland-icd nvidia-nonglvnd-vulkan-icd The following NEW packages will be installed: glx-alternative-nvidia glx-diversions libegl-nvidia0 libegl1-nvidia libgl1-nvidia-glx libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-glcore nvidia-alternative nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd nvidia-support 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 961 kB/14.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 63.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. ^C I have no idea what nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd is (how would I find out if I should be selecting it?), and bug 887063 has a comment (nvidia-driver-libs-nonglvnd is still buggy there ...) So I tried another option # apt-get install nvidia-driver nvidia-egl-icd [sudo] password for mci156: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: liba52-0.7.4 libaa1 libass5 libavc1394-0 libbasicusageenvironment1 libcaca0 libdc1394-22 libdca0 libdvbpsi10 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libebml4v5 libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libgroupsock8 libkate1 liblivemedia57 liblua5.2-0 libmad0 libmatroska6v5 libmicrodns0 libmpcdec6 libmpeg2-4 libnfs8 libopenmpt-modplug1 libpostproc54 libprotobuf-lite10 libqt5x11extras5 libraw1394-11 libresid-builder0c2a libsdl-image1.2 libsdl1.2debian libsecret-1-