Bug 4147 – opengl-update script does not stick

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Howard Powell 2002-06-25 12:04:41 UTC]

When changing from the xfree mesa drivers to the nvidia drivers for my new video
card, I realized that each time that env-update is run, it causes the system to
revert back to the mesa software opengl drivers.

This problem was discussed in the forums at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=28871#28871

Thanks for your help with this.
Howard

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-08-16 21:52:23 UTC]

drobbins,

I remember you were experiencing this issue this morning.  Adding you to the
ebuild, coz as I recall you were looking for a fix.

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-08-18 17:49:43 UTC]

Well, like in the forum, I really cannot see how it cannot 'stick'.  It
creates symlinks, and a file in /etc/env.d/.  Filesystem/kernel problems
maybe ?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2002-09-25 22:31:24 UTC]

i dont have this problem but a brother in my house has it ...
he's agreed to give me root to track it down ...
so i'm stealing the bug ;)

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2002-09-26 11:55:42 UTC]

ok, the source of his problem was he had stale packages on his system ...
thats why his `env-update` was screwing him up ...

[Comment 5 Howard Powell 2002-10-09 10:24:38 UTC]

Sorry, i sold that machine and am no longer using gentoo.  Feel free to consider
this problem fixed now.

Thanks for your help
howard

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2002-10-10 00:30:55 UTC]

ive found a few peeps with the prob and i'm trackin it down ;) 

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2002-10-10 03:59:27 UTC]

ok, heres the dilly: 
 
PROBLEM SOURCE: 
nvidia-glx *used* to be in media-gfx ... it now exists in media-video 
when users updated nvidia-glx and cleaned/etc... an old library file 
*sometimes* was left behind ... 
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.VERSION# 
 
when `opengl-update` was run, /usr/lib/libGL.so[.1] was re-linked to the 
correct files in /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/lib/ 
when `env-update` was run, /usr/lib/libGL.so[.1] was linked to this old version 
which (i'm guessing) caused errors and forced the default back to xfree's GLX 
implementation 
 
THE FIX: 
if you still have media-gfx/nvidia-glx installed, you can unmerge it and be all 
set ... if you dont, you just have to delete /usr/lib/libGL.so* and run 
opengl-update again ... 
 
quick script: 
emerge unmerge media-gfx/nvidia-glx 
rm -rf /usr/lib/libGL.so* 
opengl-update 

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2002-10-20 18:03:58 UTC]

it seems sometimes library files also get left behind even if all old versions 
have been unmerged

to check, run this:
ls /usr/lib/lib*GL* -al

if any of the libGL, libGLU, libGLcore files that end in '.so' and '.so.1' are 
not symlinks, `rm` them ...

please note, that only library files that end in '.so' and '.so.1' should be 
symlinks ... if its like '.so.1.3', do not remove it

have fun peeps

[Comment 9 SpanKY 2003-11-17 23:11:54 UTC]

*** Bug 33713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***