How to fix broken packages after AMDGPU-PRO install fail

Question

I had amdgpu-pro 17.40 installed and running fine but had some issues with a specific display (Dell U3014) not working over displayport. I opened a ticket with AMD and they suggested an update to amdgpu-pro 17.50.

Running the installer for amdgpu-pro 17.50 failed and has broken package manager such that I can not install or uninstall anything. I have reached out to AMD for help but have not gotten any response in 5 days...simply that they are still looking into it.

The results of install script and attempts to fix are:

 ./amdgpu-pro-install 
[sudo] password for xxxx: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core (= 17.50-511655) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: amdgpu-dkms (= 17.50-511655) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu (= 1:2.4.82-511655) but it is not going to be installed
 amdgpu-lib32 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:2.4.82-511655)
 glamor-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
 gst-omx-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 ids-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1:i386 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:2.4.82-511655) but it is not going to be installed
 libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu (= 1:2.4.82-511655) but it is not going to be installed
 libegl1-amdgpu-mesa:i386 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 libegl1-amdgpu-mesa : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libgbm1-amdgpu:i386 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 libgbm1-amdgpu : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-dri:i386 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                               Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-dri : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
                          Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-glx:i386 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 but it is not going to be installed
 libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-glx : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
 libglapi-amdgpu-mesa:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 libglapi-amdgpu-mesa : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libllvm5.0-amdgpu:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 libllvm5.0-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libwayland-amdgpu-client0:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 libwayland-amdgpu-client0 : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libwayland-amdgpu-server0:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 libwayland-amdgpu-server0 : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 libxatracker2-amdgpu:i386 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 but it is not going to be installed
 libxatracker2-amdgpu : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
 mesa-amdgpu-omx-drivers : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
 mesa-amdgpu-vdpau-drivers:i386 : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                                  Depends: amdgpu-core:i386
 mesa-amdgpu-vdpau-drivers : Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
 xserver-xorg-amdgpu-video-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

And then, attempting to fix:

sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  cinnamon-desktop-data gyp javascript-common libcinnamon-desktop4 libjs-inherits libjs-jquery libjs-node-uuid libjs-underscore libssl-dev libssl-doc
  libuv1 libuv1-dev linux-headers-4.10.0-28 linux-headers-4.10.0-28-generic linux-image-4.10.0-28-generic linux-image-extra-4.10.0-28-generic
  node-abbrev node-ansi node-ansi-color-table node-archy node-async node-block-stream node-combined-stream node-cookie-jar node-delayed-stream
  node-forever-agent node-form-data node-fstream node-fstream-ignore node-github-url-from-git node-glob node-graceful-fs node-gyp node-inherits
  node-ini node-json-stringify-safe node-lockfile node-lru-cache node-mime node-minimatch node-mkdirp node-mute-stream node-node-uuid node-nopt
  node-normalize-package-data node-npmlog node-once node-osenv node-qs node-read node-read-package-json node-request node-retry node-rimraf
  node-semver node-sha node-sigmund node-slide node-tar node-tunnel-agent node-underscore node-which zlib1g-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  amdgpu-dkms libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 libdrm2-amdgpu
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  amdgpu-dkms libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 libdrm2-amdgpu
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded.
46 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/5,638 kB of archives.
After this operation, 127 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ amdgpu-dkms 17.50-511655 [5,578 kB]
Get:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ libdrm2-amdgpu 1:2.4.82-511655 [29.5 kB]
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ libdrm2-amdgpu 1:2.4.82-511655 [30.5 kB]
(Reading database ... 334828 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../amdgpu-dkms_17.50-511655_all.deb ...
Unpacking amdgpu-dkms (17.50-511655) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./amdgpu-dkms_17.50-511655_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-radeon.conf', which is also in package amdgpu-pro-dkms 17.40-492261
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to unpack .../libdrm2-amdgpu_2.4.82-511655_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libdrm2-amdgpu:amd64 (1:2.4.82-511655) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./libdrm2-amdgpu_2.4.82-511655_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/lib/udev/rules.d/91-amdgpu-pro-modeset.rules', which is also in package libdrm2-amdgpu-pro:i386 1:2.4.82-492261
Preparing to unpack .../libdrm2-amdgpu_2.4.82-511655_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 (1:2.4.82-511655) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./libdrm2-amdgpu_2.4.82-511655_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/lib/udev/rules.d/91-amdgpu-pro-modeset.rules', which is also in package libdrm2-amdgpu-pro:i386 1:2.4.82-492261
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./amdgpu-dkms_17.50-511655_all.deb
 /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./libdrm2-amdgpu_2.4.82-511655_amd64.deb
 /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./libdrm2-amdgpu_2.4.82-511655_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I would appreciate any ideas/guidance on how to fix this issue. At this point apt cant install or uninstall anything at all.

This is not an exact duplicate, as the solution there does not work always. What you could do is remove the packages with the --force-all switch, without that the purging/removing will likely not happen: dpkg -P --force-all <package> — nerdoc, Dec 28 '17 at 18:02
same problem, this worked for me: sudo rm -r /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/ -> sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-pro.list -> sudo apt update -> sudo apt install synaptic -> Mark all local installed amd packages for complete removal and apply. Reboot and install the new 17.50 driver. — kuhnroyal, Mar 12 '18 at 12:05
I had delete /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-pro-local.list in addition to what @kuhnroyal mentioned. After that, all worked fine, thank you! — andred, Feb 13 '20 at 22:06
Just in case, this is a single line list of packages to be installed when you install for --pro and --opencl=legacy,pal against amdgpu-pro-install script https://gist.github.com/haxpor/9aeb4cfca410a80cc10c9f00ef3c773d. Thus if something wrong, just use nerdoc 's suggestion to remove all packages in one line of command. I faced this and able to fix the problem. — haxpor, Apr 02 '20 at 19:44

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '17 at 02:11

Same exact scenario for me. Tried a lot of things then something finally worked. At boot I selected advanced options: Repair packages, it did a few things even got stuck and I hit ctrl+c then it continued with errors, after that it needed a ctrl +alt+del and it restarted.

sudo apt-get install update and sudo apt-get distro-upgrade showed that amd drivers will be removed. It removed it and I rebooted but could not log in (bounced back to login screen) Maybe here u can just do sudo chown username:username .Xauthority to fix it but I did not know about that yet so I I did a few other commands before doing the chown command (which fixed my login issue and all is well) so after the distro-upgrade command i did sudo apt-get purge amd* installed 16.40 amd driver again reboot

I am not sure why it worked, but maybe this helps you too. Good luck

recorvery mode -> repair packages -> reboot -> apt purge amd* - worked for me — nazar kuliyev, Jan 14 '18 at 08:59
Might be "sudo-apt update" and "sudo apt dist-upgrade" now for you. — Bob Ross, Jun 30 '21 at 08:23

How to fix broken packages after AMDGPU-PRO install fail

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