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 <brian@snaptek.com> 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 <brian@snaptek.com
<mailto:brian@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@gmail.com
        <mailto:lthielster@gmail.com>
        <mailto:lthielster@gmail.com <mailto:lthielster@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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