Nvidia and libgl-dri conflict

Bitmap · 2006-01-27 20:40:39

Hi,

I have a problem with pacman, where whenever I try to install the nvidia driver (pacman -Sy nvidia), it says the following:

:: nvidia conflicts with libgl-dri. Remove libgl-dri? [Y/n]
Remove: libgl-dri
Targets: nvidia-1.0.8178-11
Total Package Size: 5.9 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]
checking package integrity... done.
error: this will break the following dependencies:
libgl-dri: is required by mesa

I did a google search and came up with a bug report on the problem. It's revealed this is a problem with pacman and that it was fixed in CVS. The temporary fix listed at the bottom lets me install the nvidia package, but it gives me another problem. Whenever I try to run a program that requires libgl, it spits out the following error:

[insert app name here]: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm desperate to get this working, so is there a way I get can the latest pacman from cvs? Or is there a way to let programs know that I'm using nvidia drivers for libgl?

BTW, I'm using testing packages e.g. xorg 7. This is the only problem I've had so far.

mpie · 2006-01-27 21:13:24

pacman -Rd libgl-dri

the Rd option ignores dependancies....

Bitmap · 2006-01-27 21:28:24

That was the temorary fix posted in the bug report I mentioned.

The temporary fix listed at the bottom lets me install the nvidia package, but it gives me another problem. Whenever I try to run a program that requires libgl, it spits out the following error:
[insert app name here]: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'm desperate to get this working, so is there a way I get can the latest pacman from cvs? Or is there a way to let programs know that I'm using nvidia drivers for libgl?

mpie · 2006-01-27 21:36:01

Yep remove mesa aswell...
only gl libs left will be nvidia's I do not have mesa installed and all the gl apps work for me

Bitmap · 2006-01-27 21:49:28

OK, I removed mesa and nothing happened...then I reinstalled it and everything worked. Which makes just about no sense.

Thanks for the help.

Cerebral · 2006-01-27 22:55:41

mpie, you should NOT uninstall mesa when running Xorg 7. It's different from the outdated mesa package currently in extra and required by a few of the xorg7 packages.
The GL libraries (which were the problem before with proprietary drivers) have been seperated out from the mesa xorg7 package and are provided by other packages.

Bitmap: Glad to hear that reinstalling mesa fixed the problem for you.

Bitmap · 2006-01-28 02:08:07

Ugh...I made another partition on my drive for testing arch, and it's absolutley impossible to bypass this problem. The thing I did before doesn't work anymore. Now, when I try to do pacman -S nvidia, it'll install but it spits out the following:

/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.1 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA-dynamic.so.1 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.8178 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8178 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.1.0.8178 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 is empty, not checked.
/sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.8178 is empty, not checked.

And as before, when I try to run a GL app

[insert app name here]: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The bug report on this says it's fixed in cvs...so can someone tell me how to get pacman from cvs?

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-01-28 16:29:43

I use xorg 7 modular, removed mesa and libgli with force, and reinstalled nvidia then. This is the only way it works here.

nbcjr · 2006-03-08 17:51:37

Moo-Crumpus wrote:

I use xorg 7 modular, removed mesa and libgli with force, and reinstalled nvidia then. This is the only way it works here.

please help me! i can't install nvidia, and pacman outputs this things "empty not checked" as quoted on every time it runs, EVERY update or removal...
something is clearly wrong, please help me.

xorg7 borked my machine

Cotton · 2006-03-08 21:34:01

I've had the same problem on one PC whilst another was fine. I'm surprised it hasn't been experienced more widely.

Although I can't remember the precise method of eliminating the dreaded "xxx is empty, not checked" errors, it basically consisted of ensuring nvidia-legacy, xorg, xorg-server, xorg-clients, mesa & libgl-dri were uninstalled using:

pacman -Rd pkgnames

(May have installed and re-uninstalled libgl-dri along the way as well).

Then reinstalled xorg, xorg-server, xorg-clients & mesa.

The key was then reinstalling nvidia-legacy-16 using

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nvidia-legacy-1.0.7174-16.pkg.tar.gz

then nvidia-legacy-18 with pacman -Syu

and rebooting. Since then the "empty not checked error" has disappeared. Thankfully.

HTH. Good luck.

Ethilien · 2006-03-08 22:47:11

Have you tried updating mesa independently?

pacman -Sy mesa

I'm running xor7 with the nvidia-legacy drivers, and everything works. Its worth noting that the current version of mesa does not depend on libgl-dri.

Also make sure that dri is disabled in your xorg.conf

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-03-10 08:51:30

nbcjr, as far as I am concerned, it's all been said. As long as you don't report if you tried it the way we suggested, and what happened, how could we help?
Yelling for help might be helpfull for a drowning person, but not for solving a computer issue.

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Nvidia and libgl-dri conflict

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