OK, I figured it out, I assume it was my own mistake, but I'm not entirely sure. Here's what I found out:
My $LD_LIBRARY_PATH was set to "/usr/lib/xorg". This directory held the following files: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-10-23 19:12 /usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so -> /usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so.1.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-10-23 19:12 /usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so.1 -> /usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 783362 2007-10-23 19:12 /usr/lib/xorg/libGL.so.1.2 Now these files are also under "/usr/lib": lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-04-30 09:48 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2008-04-30 09:48 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 394924 2008-04-06 00:06 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 As one can see, the file size of libGL.so.1.2 does not match so these are not the same libs. Furthermore, the files under "/usr/lib" belong to the package libgl1-mesa-glx but the files under "/usr/lib/xorg" do not belong to any package. So while the package was correctly installed, the setting from $LD_LIBRARY_PATH was overriding them and the wrong libs from "/usr/lib/xorg" were used, hence the strange error. Now it is very well possible that I caused this whole mess by myself via a manual install of something (although I did not install the mesa libs by myself at any time) but I dist-upgraded this computer regurarly since Ubuntu 6.06, so... I thought I'd write my experiences down here in case somebody else is experiencing the same problem. -- ATI OSS driver: compiz won't start after upgrade to Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
