14.04 egl and mesa updates will remove everything

[davidsrsb]

I am being offered a list of updates for libegl, libgl1 mesa etc on a 14.04 amd64 pc.
all versions 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4 update to 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.5

Selecting these for updates prompts that many packages will be removed, including unity, compiz, python, qt and a long list
I am holding back as this looks like a wrecker

[ajgreeny]

I have just looked at the updates for my Virtual install of Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit system and have not seen any of the problems you have with removal of any packages.

Do you have any unusual repositories, or perhaps the proposed repos enabled which might account for this? There is obviously something strange going on with your installation if you are going to lose unity and compiz, etc etc, which will, as you say, be a total wrecker of the OS.
Do you have any other desktop environments installed or is it a vanilla unity system?

[mcduck]

I noticed the same issue with updates. I'd say better not install those just yet, installing update the would remove something is of course a bad idea, and I'd usually avoid any kind of partial update as well. I'll dig around if I can figure out what the problem is.

Just to make it a bit easier, are you using any PPA repositories? If yes, which ones?

edit: At least for me, the problematic packages are actually 32-bit versions of the packages, and come from xorg-edgers PPA.

[davidsrsb]

My PPAs
Independent
http://qgis.org/debian
http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/
http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/js-reynaud/ppa-kicad/ubuntu
http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-4-4/ubuntu

[oceola2]

Ran into this before about a year ago or the last time the mesa stuff updated, while using Synaptic and again while doing a catch-up update of the kernel and other packages (libgl1-mesa-dri did not trigger the dump warning.)
Updated everything which was not causing the dump warning.
This left the packages: libegl1-mesa; libegl1-mesa-drivers; libgl1-mesa-glx; libglapi-mesa; libgles2-mesa and libwayland-egl1-mesa.
Reloaded Synaptic and chose libgles2-mesa and the other packages were noted to be updated without the dump warning.
Update was concluded successfully.
Note: There were also python related to update and version packages, update manager packages update and a libopenvg1-mesa which did NOT trigger the warning.

Good Luck

[davidsrsb]

Thanks
That process worked.
Some sort of bug in the mesa dependency calculations

[oceola2]

Glad it worked, maybe mark this solved.