Subject: bug#326 closed by Mark Hindley <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#326: firmware [non-free] uninstallable.)

From: "Devuan bug Tracking System" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:20:02 +0000

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#326: firmware [non-free] uninstallable.

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Subject: Re: bug#326: firmware [non-free] uninstallable.
From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
To: Bruno <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 16:17:16 +0000

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 07:41:32PM +0200, Bruno wrote:
> Err:1 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii/non-free i386
> firmware-amd-graphics all 20161130-4      ( ndr: must be 20161130-5 or
> 20190114-1 )
>   404  Not Found [IP: 141.84.43.22 80]

This is an amprolla mismerge, long gone. Currently, ascii has

 20161130-5
  http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/non-free amd64
  http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/non-free i386
  http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/non-free arm64
  http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/non-free ppc64el

Closing

Mark

Subject: firmware [non-free] uninstallable.
From: Bruno <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 19:41:32 +0200

Package: firmware-amd-graphics
Version: 20161130-4

 From the boot log :

   # dmesg | grep R300
   [    7.697361] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
   [    7.718273] radeon 0000:01:05.0: firmware: failed to load 
radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2)
   [    7.718334] radeon 0000:01:05.0: Direct firmware load for 
radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2

As root, I do :

  # apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove
Trovato:1 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii InRelease
Trovato:2 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii-security InRelease
Scaricamento di:3 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii-updates InRelease 
[25,6 kB]
Scaricamento di:4 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii-backports 
InRelease [25,6 kB]
Scaricamento di:5 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii-backports/main 
i386 Packages [594 kB]
Recuperati 645 kB in 2s (271 kB/s)
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
Tutti i pacchetti sono aggiornati.
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
Calcolo dell'aggiornamento... Fatto
0 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
0 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.

  # apt install firmware-amd-graphics
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti NUOVI saranno installati:
     firmware-amd-graphics
0 aggiornati, 1 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
È necessario scaricare 1.566 kB di archivi.
Dopo quest'operazione, verranno occupati 15,3 MB di spazio su disco.
Err:1 http://deb.devuan.org//merged ascii/non-free i386 
firmware-amd-graphics all 20161130-4      ( ndr: must be 20161130-5 or 
20190114-1 )
   404  Not Found [IP: 141.84.43.22 80]
E: Impossibile recuperare 
http://debian.bio.lmu.de/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-amd-graphics_20161130-4_all.deb 
404  Not Found [IP: 141.84.43.22 80]
E: Impossibile scaricare alcuni pacchetti. Potrebbe essere utile 
eseguire "apt-get update" o provare l'opzione "--fix-missing".

On Debian site, for info :

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-amd-graphics

   Package firmware-amd-graphics
     jessie (oldstable) (kernel): Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics 
chips [non-free]
     20161130-5~deb8u1 [security]: all
     stretch (stable) (kernel): Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics 
chips [non-free]
     20161130-5: all
     stretch-backports (kernel): Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics 
chips [non-free]
     20190114-1~bpo9+2: all
     buster (testing) (kernel): Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics 
chips [non-free]
     20190114-1: all
     sid (unstable) (kernel): Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips 
[non-free]
     20190502-1: all

N.B. 20161130-4 not exist !
Ciao.

I am using :

  # lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:    Devuan
  Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii)
  Release:    2.0
  Codename:    ascii

  # uname -a
  Linux Acer 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u2 (2019-05-13) 
i686 GNU/Linux

  # dpkg --get-selections | grep linux-image
  linux-image-4.9.0-6-686-pae            deinstall
  linux-image-4.9.0-9-686-pae            install
  linux-image-686-pae                        install

  # ls -l /lib/modules
  totale 8
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 apr 28 08:26 4.9.0-6-686-pae
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 mag 24 16:52 4.9.0-9-686-pae