Actually, on closer inspection I found the place where a fglrx installation and an fglrx-updates installation log (jockey.log) differ:
fglrx log excerpt: --------------------------------------- DKMS: install Completed. update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:8.881-0ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place 2011-10-16 12:56:00,782 DEBUG: fglrx.enabled(fglrx): target_alt /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf current_alt /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf other target alt /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf other current alt /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf 2011-10-16 12:56:00,782 DEBUG: XorgDriverHandler(%s, %s).enabled(): No X.org driver set, not checking --------------------------------------- fglrx-updates log excerpt: --------------------------------------- DKMS: install Completed. update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Setting up fglrx-amdcccle-updates (2:8.881-0ubuntu6) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place 2011-10-16 12:54:45,761 WARNING: /sys/module/fglrx_updates/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind fglrx_updates driver <------------- 2011-10-16 12:54:45,849 ERROR: xorg:fglrx_updates: get_alternative_by_name(fglrx-updates) returned nothing 2011-10-16 12:54:46,007 DEBUG: fglrx.enabled(fglrx_updates): target_alt None current_alt /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf other target alt None other current alt /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf 2011-10-16 12:54:46,007 DEBUG: fglrx_updates is not the alternative in use --------------------------------------- So that WARNING line in the fglrx-updates log wasn't there in the fglrx log, and shortly thereafter the installation fails with an ERROR. I hope that this information may help somebody more experienced with jockey/fglrx to fix that bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870560 Title: installing fglrx (post-release updates) fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/870560/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
