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)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
>> Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending
>> messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon
>> copy).
>> Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before
>> clicking Send.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
>> Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending
>> messages to
>> multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove
>> addresses
>> from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**__---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >
>>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>> ------------------------------**__---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__**org
>> <mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.**phxlinux.org<PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
>> >
>>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>>
>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
>> Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to
>> multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses
>> from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**---------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org<PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>>
>> ------------------------------**---------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org<PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>
--
Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to
multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses
from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
(text/plain)