No joy. In fact, now Unity does not come up so although I can see the desktop, there is nothing I can do except to ctrl-alt-Fx to get a console. BTW, that is what I did when you said to stop X from a console and try removing the package. I know I said I did ctrl-F2 but that was not what I did. In any case, I also had the Cinnamon desktop installed so I switched to that and that is how I am using it now. I tried a lot more stuff and the same errors happen (despite my having removed every libdrm-radeon1* file and directory on the system. I am thinking the problem began with some file being left locked and that is causing the current error messages. Who know -- I can't think about this anymore. I am going over to Win7 and playing some Lotro On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > 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 > > 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 > >> >**> >> 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) >> >> >> -- >> Dazed_75 a.k.a. 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