Nominating for hardy, but dropping the 8.04.1 milestone; diversions are
very tricky and I'm not sure that this bug is fixable at all except by
removing and then re-installing the nvidia-glx package, because you
simply cannot remove a diversion while the package is installed which
provides a file of the same name. I guess it could be done by manually
removing the file from the previous package version before trying to
remove the diversion, as seems to be done for a number of cases in this
package preinst, but diversions are sufficiently error-prone that I
don't think we should commit to this for 8.04.1 since we might end up
making things worse rather than better.
Anyway, the convention used in nvidia-glx, to divert files to a filename
based on the /diverted/ package name instead of the /diverting/ package
name, is itself error-prone for precisely this reason and ought to be
discontinued for any future diversions precisely because it induces bugs
of this sort.
** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu Hardy)
Importance: Undecided => High
Status: New => Confirmed
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online upgrade 6.06 to 8.04 failed - kernel panic on reboot
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