Ubuntu updates today broken

[Brian Cluff]

Normally your system would be able to have both and i386 and an amd64 
version at the same time.  But that's a library for the video driver, so 
it doesn't really make sense to have 2 different versions of it at the 
same time unless you are going to be driving 2 different video cards and 
want/need to use a 64bit and a 32bit at the same time.

The way I would have done it is to do CTRL+ALT+F1, login as you and then do:
sudo stop lightdm
sudo dpkg -r libdrm-radeon1:i386
sudo apt-get install libdrm-radeon1

Hopefully that would take care of it.

Brian Cluff

On 07/05/2013 06:44 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> I thought the :i386 packages were part of the system for supporting 32
> bit programs to run in 64-bit (though I had always though there was no
> problem doing so except for packages that used the kernel directly (like
> drivers).
>
> Anyway, that did not help.  when I went to a console (i.e. ctrl-F2) and
> killed X it just dropped me to the login screen (which makes some
> sense).  So I restarted and used the recovery console.  Using that
> command to me the filesystem was ro so I went back to the recovery
> screen and chose the dpkg fix entry from the menu.  That looked like it
> fixed things and did install the other 9 updates, but still complained
> about the i386 thing.  Dropping to a root shell again (the FS was now
> rw), I tried again to dpkg -r .. to no avail.
>
> rebooting put me back in normally and the Update Manager now shows only
> libdrm-radeon1 needing update but it fails the same way.  I'm going to
> hope the update itself caused the problem and maybe they will put out a
> fix this weekend.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     Looks like you managed to get both the i386 version and the amd64
>     version of libdrm-radeon1 trying to install at the same time, and of
>     course stepping on each others toes since they provide the same
>     thing. I've run into similar problems in the past with other
>     packages that atarted out with an i386 only version and then later
>     added a 64bit version.
>
>     You should be able to fix yourself right up by doing:
>     dpkg -r libdrm-radeon1:i386
>
>     You might want to do the above from a plain console without X
>     running since you will be swapping part of it's brains out with a
>     totally different version, just be be safe.
>
>     Brian Cluff
>
>
>     On 07/05/2013 05:55 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
>         Update.  None of the known fixes and when the Update Manager
>         complains
>         and I click on Details, it says:
>
>         The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>
>         libdrm-radeon1:Depends:libc6(>__=2.14) but 2.15-0ubuntu10.4 is
>         installed
>         libdrm-radeon1:i386:
>
>         The way I read that it looks like not a problem.  BTW, this is
>         Ubuntu
>         12.04.2 64bit which makes me wonder about that 10.4 in the message.
>
>
>         On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com
>         <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              Thsi may only affect some people and maybe only those with
>         Radeon
>              graphics, but the error I got just said "Error: Broken
>         Count >0".  I
>              tried fixing broken packages to no avail.  In the end, I got
>
>              dpkg: error processing libdrm-radeon1 (--configure):
>                libdrm-radeon1:amd64 2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.1 cannot be configured
>              because libdrm-radeon1:i386 is in a different version
>              (2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.2)
>              dpkg: error processing libdrm-radeon1:i386 (--configure):
>                libdrm-radeon1:i386 2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.2 cannot be configured
>              because libdrm-radeon1:amd64 is in a different version
>              (2.4.43-0ubuntu0.0.1)
>              Errors were encountered while processing:
>                libdrm-radeon1
>                libdrm-radeon1:i386
>              E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
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