Ubuntu :: Broken Packages - 8.04 Crashed On Login Screen
Jun 22, 2010
So, a friend's computer, running 8.04, refused to boot for a while, so I took a look at it. It appeared to boot fine, but when I got to the login screen, it crashed when I started typing. I did a hard power-off, booted it up again, and tried to update the packages (it has been disused for a few months, and I suspected that the problems had been fixed). Synaptic told me that I would have to uninstall a bunch of packages in addition to updating, which was all fine and good, but then it crashed at the end of it's purge, and left me wondering if the system would be stable afterwards. The update manager told me that I had broken packages, but then went on updating a few of them. When I went back to synaptic, it disagreed, showing no broken packages. I tried to open Firefox, but then GNOME crashed. How do I do a mass reinstall of all of the packages, and do I do this before or after I update the packages?
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Apr 24, 2010
I've been trying to fix this problem for quite a few days now and have done a lot of searching on these forums, Linux Mint Forums and some others Google lead me to and have has some success, but am now stuck.I have posted a thread on this same topic on the Linux Mint Forums, but have had no success (if you want check it out at:URL...Originally I received error messages when trying to update involving certain repositories which couldn't be accessed (because they either didn't exist or had been moved) and I hunted these down and changed or removed them.
I have done much searching, etc. and cannot find any broken packages. I have tried many many different commands which have mostly done nothing.I seem to be in a similar boat to this person: URL...
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Nov 22, 2009
Fedora 12 randomly crashes after a fresh install.Everything is left at its default during the installation except I install KDE and not Gnome.When I try to boot I hit esc at the splash screen to see where it hangs, but it never hangs at the same spot twice. Sometimes it hangs and sometimes it restarts. Its crashed everywhere from starting udev to the login screen.
I've been using kubuntu for the past year because I have the same problem with F10 and F11.
I dual boot with Windows 7 for games.
System specs:
Motherboard: MSI P45 Platinum
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Video Card: Radeon HD4850
Memory: 4GB (2x2GB) Patriot
HDD: Main: 250GB SATA Western Digital
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Jan 28, 2010
Using Karma and kubuntu -single boot. When I restarted my machine, the login appeared as usual and I entered my usual password but it was not accepted . I tried several times including making sure that caps lock / num lock etc were not invoked.
I then rebooted into recovery mode and let it run its course. When I rebooted and input my login password, I can get a bit further. The login is accepted but the GUI opens with a blank wallpaper and the terminal prompt window open at the keevill@keevill-desktop.
The ls command shows the name of the files which are on the desktop but they are not visible on the GUI nor are any other icons for applications. It seems like the kubuntu GUI is broken or something. I tried uninstall and then re-install but just the same. If I am forced to re-install Ubuntu I guess this means I lose all my settings and applications will have to be all installed again ?? How can I avoid this?
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Mar 20, 2011
1. Is there a way to change the broken glass/monitor background on the login screen???
2. I have tried to login as root, but it will not accept the password, but if I login with my user name and need to change things that require root privileges the password works fine.
I worked a little back in 05 and 06 with FC4 and FC5 but nothing until now..
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Aug 25, 2010
I was upgrading from 9.X (can't remember what X is) to I believe it was 10.2 (ok, this happened over a month ago and I just haven't had the time to run after it), and lost power. Obviously doesn't sound good, right? Now when I boot I get the message "alloc magic is broken at 0xaff2c150". I have no idea if this error message is indicative of the whole problem, or what, but I can't get back to my system. I would really rather not lose my work.
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Jun 11, 2011
when my computer was upgrading the packages it crashed with like 30 seconds left. On the reboot, the login screen was blue and it didn't have any accounts listed, I had to click other and sign in. when I hit log in, it freezes at that screen, the desktop environment doesnt launch. I have to click alt + ctrl + del in order to log out.
I've tried going into system recovery, cleaning, repairing packages, and changing graphics dosnt work. Any ideas what I can do, I've tried all kinds of apt-get commands from the root terminal in recovery and dkpg commands too. Additional info: My computer has been freezing recently and I don't know what was causing it.
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Apr 12, 2011
My last setup (years ago) ran fluxbox so because it was familiar I installed it as a secondary to xfce right off the bat. I download a lot of different stuff because I like to try out all the apps I can find but somewhere I broke something. I can still run fluxbox fine, but nither the Xubuntu nor Xfce sessions will run now. Last thing I remember changing was pulse audio(removed it for an experiment I was trying with jack audio), not sure if it is connected but when I try to login to xfce the screen goes black, flickers a few times then it brings me back to the login screen.
I tried failsafe but everytime I do my monitor gives me a "frequency out of range" error. I tried purging and reinstalling xubuntu desktop and xfce settings but I am thinking its my xorg config. My laptop is a Toshiba satellite M305D-s4830 with ATI Radeon 3100 mobile graphics card and I am running Xubuntu 10.10. Unfortunately I also broke the screen, so right now I am stuck with an external monitor till I get a new one.
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Dec 18, 2010
I have some updates waiting to be installed, but can't install them because of: "Fix broken packages first".I searched the forum for answers but until now nothing seems to work.I used:
Code:
Fix broken packages in Synaptic
sudo apt-get check
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Apr 11, 2010
I have a broken package and can't seem to fix it. Now, nothing can be downloaded from synaptic. I get the following error message:
Processing triggers for software-center Setting up courier-mta (0.61.2-lubuntu3) * Starting Courier mail server. Starting Courier mail server. invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-mta, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing courier-mta (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: courier-mta E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How do I fix this?
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Jul 2, 2010
I'm trying to do this:
Code:
deb [URL] lucid partner
Then update:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
Then this:
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sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
The last code when entered says I have a broken package that needs to be fixed. The terminal tells me to enter the code below to fix the broken package but nothing changes. I still have a broken package.
Code:
sudo apt-get -f install
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Jul 6, 2010
Last night I was installing gbrainy and while it was installing I started a fullscreen game on accident. Fullscreen games cause crashes on my intel integrated graphics (an unrelated issue) and while gbrainy was in the process of installing my computer crashed. So I had to restart. When I restarted I knew I would see broken packages so I did code...
I've tried just about everything to resolve the broken packages but I can't fix them. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this?
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Sep 8, 2010
I want to backup my installed packages using this method mentioned in thread [URL] but the problem is I have 31 broken parkages, i want a way to know the broken parkages so I would remove them in my repack so when i restore the parkages I wont have broken parkages. For now i cant fix them as I dont have internet....
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Dec 13, 2010
I am trying run an update but I get an error "Fix broken package first".I then went into synaptic and fixed the broken packages and tried to the update but I had the same problem still.
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Jan 15, 2010
I've been getting the following for a few weeks now.
Code:
The following packages are BROKEN:
libmagick10
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4027kB of archives. After unpacking 65.5kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libmagick10: Depends: libdjvulibre21 (>= 3.5.20) which is a virtual package.
Depends: libgraphviz4 (>= 2.20.0) but 2.16-3ubuntu2 is installed.
Depends: libopenexr6 (>= 1.6.1) which is a virtual package.
Running Kubuntu (Hardy Heron, KDE 3.5.10)
I've tried following the suggestion aptitude offered of downgrading it, but it didn't help. I've tried removing it altogether, but some slightly important packages need it (e.g. kubuntu-desktop or dolphin). I've tried installing the missing dependencies, but they weren't in the repository.
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May 3, 2010
As a suggested fix to solve a problem with cairo-dock, on 5/2/10 at 11:00pm, I ran the following in a 9.10 terminal window:Code:sudo apt-get dist-upgradeThis somehow deleted all of my kernel images, and a bunch of other files.I'm running the livecd now. Is there any way to run dpkg from the livecd on my mounted HDD? I can't access anything while booting up the HDD except for memtest in the grub, so going into recovery mode is impossible.
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May 7, 2010
During my recent upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04, I got a few error messages concerning the flashplugin-nonfree not installing correctly. A user named carlee helped me get flash working over on the absolute beginner forum, but I've got a related problem still unresolved.Update manager is convinced that my perfectly working flash installation is broken, and insists I update it.However, the update fails every time, telling me E: flashplugin-nonfree: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Opening synaptic, I cannot select the reinstall option for the plugin. Removal and complete removal are my only options, and both give the above error. More problematic, I cannot de-select the flash plugin entirely. It MUST be part of any other package update through synaptic (if I wanted to re-install avant window navigator, for example). And since the flash removal operation fails, synaptic is effectively non-operational.How can I convince my update manager that my fully operational flash is just fine the way it is?
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May 13, 2010
I forgot that Python is actually essential to Gnome and wanted to update to 3.1, and didn't realize my mistake until some of Gnome had been removed, then I Ctrl+C'd out. Now I can't even connect to the internet to repair my broken packages. I'm out of town for Mother's Day, but in the car it occured to me that I should have tried my Live CD.
As a side issue, is it alright to install more than one version of Python? I'm guessing so, so long as I keep track of which one I'm calling. I used apt-cdrom to update my sources.list appropriately so I could apt-get from the Live CD, but apt complained about locales. Now sources.list has strangely lost the cdrom line, but I'll put it back when I next boot to repair mode.
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May 16, 2010
Am trying to upgrade from karmic 9.1 to lucid 10.04 and have the problem that as part of the upgrade I get a report that some packages are broken. As suggested posting the relevant files APT and MAIN Logs from the /var/log/dist-upgrade below.
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Jun 10, 2010
I am new to linux (ubuntu) and I really like it, but the same day I installed ubuntu in my vaio, it asked me to install the upgrades, and after I did it there is sign in my desktop saying:
An error occurred, please run Package manager from the right click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong,
The error message was 'error BrokenCount >0. This usually means that you installed packages with unmet dependencies
So I did some research and use the package manager (it says that I have 280 broken packages) and try to fix broken packages but it did not work. I had to learn how to use the terminal and I did things like apt-get clean all or update upgrade etc but nothing works the message still there.
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Oct 12, 2010
I was updating from 10.04 to 10.10 (was updating through update manager) after some time I got following message:
Code:
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report. When I tried to run the command
Code:
ubuntu-bug update-manager
as above message says I got error
Code:
The problem cannot be reported:
This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
Following are the files in /etc/apts/sources.list
http://paste.ubuntu.com/511416/
Then there are some files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
their contents are
lucid-partner.list ---->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511417/
medibuntu.list---->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511418/
ubuntu-mozilla-daily-ppa-lucid.list---->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511419/
ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list------------>http://paste.ubuntu.com/511420/
lucid-partner.list.distUpgrade----------->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511421/
medibuntu.list.distUpgrade---- ------->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511422/
ubuntu-mozilla-daily-ppa-lucid.list.distUpgrade---->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511426/
ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list.distUpgrade--->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511427/
lucid-partner.list.save--->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511428/
medibuntu.list.save---->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511430/
ubuntu-mozilla-daily-ppa-lucid.list.save---->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511431/
ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list.save----->http://paste.ubuntu.com/511433/
What should I be checking now?
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Jun 26, 2010
I must say I am quite embarrassed. I normally don't ask these sort of questions. I can't seem to update my system. When I call;
Code:
$ sudo yum update
I get the following error which I will like to clean up with your help;(not "work around
[code]...
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Mar 22, 2010
I installed java and my computer went off in the middle of the process and some packages didn't install correctly. I decided to reinstall them but it doesn't let me. I have tried to remove them using the synaptic manager, I also tried to remove them manually. I've tried: apt-get -f install also. I tried to re-install it using:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
but this error comes up
Errors were encountered while processing:
sun-java6-jdk
sun-java6-fonts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Jul 27, 2010
After tomboy was gone today from my machine and does not appear in synaptic, I tried to install gnote and got this error. what should I do?
Code:
gnote:
Depends: libboost-filesystem1.40.0 (>= 1.40.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libboost-system1.40.0 (>= 1.40.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libpanelappletmm-2.6-1c2 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpcrecpp0 (>= 7.7) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
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Aug 23, 2010
I am tried to install Sopcast for Ubuntu Netbook remix but keep being told I have broken packages but I can't find any in synaptic or ubuntu tweak. I think I had a failed install before I found the frontend package on ubuntu tweak but I cannot find where the problem is.
I am running ubuntu on an Acer Aspire One as my sole operating system.
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Oct 12, 2010
Here is the apt.log from running 'do-release-upgrade'. apt-get upgrade runs without issue and I have disabled all of the extra repos I had (opera, tor, lucid-propsed, chromium). My system is otherwise 100% up to date with apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-get upgrade. I have already purged all of my PPAs using 'ppa-purge', but it looks like there are remnants of xorg-edgers in there somewhere: [URL]
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Dec 21, 2010
"the following problems were found on ur sytem: there are multiple versions of 'drakconf' in your system this package wont be cleanly updated unless u leave only one version." not only darkconf several other files too has the same error. how to uninstall duplicates?
i left the pclinuxos update (via synaptic pckage manager) and wen i came back i saw the pc had shut down, and the above and bottom toolbars has dissappeared. and the above error wen i start the package manager. how can i make a cd repair install? if this is the solution.
edit: i uninstalled duplicates but still the gnome deskop toobars still not there??
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Jan 7, 2011
When I try to update my packages, or install new packages, I get this error:"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libglib2.0-0_2.26.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1"I tried the "sudo apt-get install -f" but it didn't work.I'm running 10.10, on a Asus laptop
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Feb 5, 2011
Update Manager tells me it has updates. So I close what I am doing with VirtualBox and a Windows Client and I tell the Update Manager to go ahead. But it stops, says I've got OpenOffice and QuickStarter both running. Not so, at last not to my knowledge. I try again, and it tells me I have a broken package, and to use the 'Broken' filter to find it. Where is the 'Broken' filter? And even if I work that out, what should I do about a "broken" package? So I look online. Only references to "Broken" packages are with respect to Windows. Windows is a shut down client, and VirtualBox has been shut down.
So I try the recovery mode on a reboot. This reports I have 15 broken packages, all to do with OpenOffice. I select Fix Broken Packages, and it keep stopping to tell me that OpenOffice and QuickStarter are both running, and I need to deal with that. How? A restart and effort to fix broken packages did no good. I look online again, and this time I run down where someone writes you can follow a link, and what you get there will do the trick. Only the link goes nowhere, so it has been moved or deleted.
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Feb 27, 2011
I have been upgrading 10.4 to 10.10, but in the middle of the new package download my computer turned off (outage). Now Ubuntu won't restart the upgrade or install the packages already downloaded; it tells me it "Could not determine the upgrade" and that unresolvable problems occurred, caused by held packages. How can I reset things to restart the upgrade?
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