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[Felix Reinhard <Felix.Reinhard@xxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The Xorg Server couldn't load the glx module after installing the nvidia-glx-180 packet with aptitude, tried 170 too, but i doesn't worked either.
That's for the bad news, but the good news is, I found the problem and a workaround:

The Problem was, that an unsucessful attemp to install nvidia Cuda
drivers left three (as far as i know) librariers in my system. Some
symlinks wheren't updated the prober way and still pointed to those
relicts.

the first one was 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.190.18
the symlink
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so pointed corectly to libglx.so.180.44 so this wasn't the problem

but there where two lybraries left on /usr/lib/:
libGLcore.so.190.18 and libGL.so.190.18

the symlinks 
libGLcore.so.1
libGL.so.1
pointed to them when they should have pointed to
libGLcore.so.180.44 and libGL.so.180.44.

After changing the symlinks manualy to the right library everything
worked fine.

Maybe theres a way the packet manager points this two symlinks to the correct version instead of the newest one?
the later is exactly the behaviour of ldconfig which i tried in first place.

after i removed the files 
libGLcore.so.190.18 and libGL.so.190.18
ldconfig worked correctly!

I hope the information helped, if there are furtehr questions, please
don't hesitate to contact me!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.44-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-15-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #52-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9 10:48:52 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

-- 
symlinks updatet the wrong way
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456590
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