Ubuntu :: Computer Janitor Broke Synaptic Apparently?
Jul 15, 2010
I just ran Computer Janitor on my computer and I think it broke Synaptic. The program was cleaning up some files, but then it froze halfway through and I had to force it to quit. Since then, I can't open Synaptic package manager, the Ubuntu Software Center, nor Computer Janitor itself. When I do they either freeze and I have to force them to quite or they just don't show up on the screen, but they're stuck running in the background because System Monitor reports the processor is running at 100% and so I have to go in manually and kill the bad processes running in the background. Restarting doesn't change anything.Running Lucid Lynx on a HP dc7100, P4 3.2 Ghz, 2gb RAM.
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Jul 15, 2011
This is a bit weird,but in thinking about cleaning up my hdd, which has a single install of 10.04/EMC2 on it,I took my first look at Computer Janitor.When it opened, it seemed amazingly basic, in fact just two panes with no indication of what the few entries were indicating.The "About" tag in the Help menu indicated that it was version 1.13.3, but Synaptic tells me that version 1.14.1 is installed.A bit of reading in the Forum suggests that this is not highly thought of, anyway, so I shall leave it alone.As I'm currently having other issues with this installation, and am about to do a clean install, I thought I'd drop this pebble in the pond, and learn a bit more before my next turn around.
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Mar 7, 2011
I run computer janitor and it now tells me I no longer need this package (10 MB) linux-headers-2.6.35-25 generic as it was updated last week to -27. Should I trust this and remove it safely?
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Apr 16, 2010
I ran Computer Janitor and I thought it deleted things I don't use anymore so I deleted those things and I read somewhere that Computer Janitor does delete important things, how can I be sure that I didn't delete anything important?
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Jan 27, 2010
I made a mistake & deleted a bunch of stuff off my computer by pushing the janitor clean up button how do I restore my computer back to a good connection or what do I have to do to fix the problem
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Sep 1, 2011
E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/extended_states - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Unable to determine the file size - fstat (9: Bad file descriptor)
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
When i opened my synaptic package manager it comes up with this, i tried to install avast anti virus, now when i try to remove it off the terminal it comes up with this, im quite a noob and im unable i can sort this out myself.
~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove avast4workstation
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
also my package manager has come up with crashing too, i have no idea i would assume it was because of trying to install avast and it didnt like it.
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Apr 1, 2010
I ran the Computer Janitor to clean things up a bit, and found that the list of "unused" items is pretty long, ~141.Among the items listed, I found Maxima, Pari-GP and Gnuplot, which are used by Sage, which I use all the time.Is this possibly a mistake? I'm currently using a binary form of Sage, rather than the one available via apt, so maybe these aren't currently being used?Also listed were cpython, ipython and a lot of python-*; does that seem right?
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Mar 4, 2011
I ran a system upgrade today and it froze at "unpacking replacement libpango1-common". It just wouldn't go on. The upgrade kept on showing "unpacking replacement ..", the process used zero CPU time, so I killed it, removed the lock and after Synaptic asked me to, I ran sudo dpkg --configure -a. Now I can't install anything. Everytime I try to, I get an error telling me I should run "sudo apt-get -f install", however, whenever I do that, another endless installation of libpango1.0-common starts. I tried various things like installing that package manually, removing it and so on, but nothing helped. Any advice on how to get my package installation system working again is warmly welcome.
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Dec 1, 2009
I have created aprtition calls /dev/sdd4 and used mount comand I changed /etc/fstab added the new partition to that file as recomanded on http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disk-format/
Now when I reboot my pc I get an error message
( fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdd2 [failed]
An error occurred during the file system check. Dropping you to a shell; the systme will reboot when you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance (or type Cntrol-D to continue) )
When I type the root password it is on read-only I cant chage any file.
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Dec 28, 2010
mpg123 suddenly started playing a police siren occationly. I checked the process once I heard it, and root was the process owner. How could this happen? Have someone broke into my computer? If so - how could I verify an attack? I run Ubuntu 9.10.
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Feb 12, 2010
Wednesday I went to work, docked and fired up my older Dell C840 laptop (running Fedora 12). It had a long list of updates that it downloaded and installed (it had been off for about a week). When the updates were finished, I noticed that my laptop had locked up. After waiting a while, I ended up doing a cold reboot. After that, I get the Fedora symbol that fills up, and then the screen goes black with a single cursor. You can type in anything and it is reflected- even control and ALT codes. If you hit CTL- ALT-F2, it goes into a terminal mode. You can do almost anything that you'd normally do in terminal mode. The video driver is the original off the install disk, and it's never been changed- it works fine right out of the box.
If I try to start up X-Windows, I get a segmentation fault error. I've tried deleting and then re-installing some of the packages that were updated (trying this via yum), no difference. I don't know what else to do. I need to get this laptop going before next week- it's my work computer and I do use it a lot. Is there any way to get in touch with the people who wrote the updates, and file a bug report? I'm using my main (home) system right now, that for a couple of reasons needs to stay on windoze XP for a few more weeks. I've been around computers for years, but not Linux.
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Apr 25, 2011
today i started getting this on my laptop:when starting synaptic package manager or software sources from system administration, neither app do launches and the computer shuts down.i have been using ubuntu on this toshiba laptop for about three years now.
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Jun 1, 2011
I have the following set up in my crontab:
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# crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl/managed_arp_data.pl >> /var/log/arpdb.log
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl/infoblox_fixed_sync.pl >> /var/log/crossref.log
00 23 * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl/infoblox_host_sync.pl >> /var/log/host_sync.log
0 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl/infoblox_excl_sync.pl >> /var/log/excl_sync.log
None of these jobs is apparently running, however they did run on the 31st (yesterday), but not on the 30th or any other day during the last 10 days that I have logs for. I think I've set cron to run at log level 1, but I don't know where that log goes, I don't see anything like /var/log/cron
So, couple questions:
* If I do something like "sudo -s" to get a root prompt and then do a "crontab -e", which user does that crontab get executed as?
* Where should I look for cron logs?
* Anyone know why a job would run on the 31st, but not any other day?
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May 3, 2010
I have just installed the new version 10.04 of xubuntu but I cannot enable xdmcp.
1) the gdm.conf (usualy in /etc/gdm/) is missing (where is now this file?);
2) the custom.conf apparently don't work;
3) the remote tab in login windows are missing
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Feb 28, 2010
I merged my toolbars into one toolbar. This results in having my bookmarks toolbar next to my URL bar.
The problems is that the URL bar apparently chooses the biggest width available with priority over the bookmarks bar, being merged into simply an arrow, which I have to click in order to see my bookmarks.
I would like to give my URL bar a fixed width so that I can see my bookmarks toolbar or to leave the URL bar with a flexible width as long as it doesnt have priority over the bookmarks bar.
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Jul 22, 2010
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 up-to-date in my laptop HP Pavilion dv4-1290br.My sound seems to randomly get muted, after a few hours the laptop is on. I've checked the volumes, I've compiled and installed the very latest ALSA driver, tested it trying to play music and changing the volume in hardware and software. Nothing works. The sound simply gets muted until I reboot.
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Aug 28, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 5 days ago....looked great....seemed to offer everything I want. Then I clicked on the firefox icon and it brought up Google ...Great!....Then I said ..this is easy..I'll have a look at my share-trading dynamic platform. Searched for Commsec and clicked 'launch Webiress'...and then it hiccupped! I got a message saying I needed Java "Now downloading".....Okay I've had this happen in windows...no problemo.. Then I tried to follow the instructions contained on the download page from Java....thats what started my five days (30 hours now and counting) of misery.
Finally on one of the hundreds of Ubuntu pages I've read I found that there is a bug in java....that prevents it from working with the Firefox that Ubuntu provides. So I cleverly removed firefox ....and went to Mozilla and downloaded a new version 3.6 of Firefox.....followed the instructions at Sourceforge.net (and other places I can't remember). Now I have Firefox in a folder in 'Documents' with libjavaplugin_oji.so linked to ///java/jre.6.0_21/plugin/i386/ns7... But when I try to fire up Webiress I still get the messsage "Java not installed ...now downloading".
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Oct 6, 2010
I'm experiencing an occasional frustration using Evolution with my work email which is on an MS Exchange 2003 server.Everything usually works well enough, but from time to time I'll try to retrieve a message,Is there a setting I've missed in Evolution that might take care of this, or some other workaround?Let me re-emphasize that the server is a 2003 Exchange server (and a source of endless frustration for a non-windows user). It's not a 2007 or 2010 Exchange server, which is what most companies use these days.
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Jan 18, 2010
I have an issue with cfservd, from the cfengine package not listening on both ipv4 and ipv6. Tracing through the source indicated that the issue was with the getaddrinfo() call. I have used the example code on the man page and can confirm that it doesn't work as expected on either Fedora 12, Fedora 10 or CentOS 5.3
The servers I am testing on have both ipv4 and ipv6 enabled and working. i.e. I can ssh to them using either -4 or -6 and netstat -a shows 0.0.0.0:22 and :::22
Running the example code on the Fedora servers results in only a single IPv4 address structure being returned by the getaddrinfo call and hence only listening on the one protocol. Strangely, on the CentOS server only the IPv6 address structure is returned.
I need both IPv4 and IPv6 for cfengine but am at a complete loss as to how to get it to work when the issue appears to be something fundamentally wrong at the OS level.
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Jul 13, 2010
I have done some searching around and now know that the 64 bit version of Wine is useless. I tried to install the 32 bit version and apparently succeeded. The problem is that when I open Wine File the .wine-x86_64 folder reappears. I don't even know where the 32 bit folder is.
I have tried
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yum erase *wine*
but it does not seem to work. However this does.
[Code]...
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May 7, 2011
I'm using Slackware 13.1 on a new laptop (MSI 1481). Everything has worked great except when I put a DVD in the drive (like the Slackware DVD) the drive spools up and down constantly - you know, how it goes from slow speed to fast speed. I figured it was hal polling it every 2 seconds and that for some reason it was causing it to actually kick in and read the DVD, but disabling that didn't help. I've also tried not starting X or xfce (going to runlevel 3) but that didn't make any difference - as soon as I put the dvd in, it starts up.
It's not just the Slackware dvd either, it's any DVD. Movie DVDs however don't seem to spool up to higher speeds but you can still hear the drive running constantly, so there is some different. I'm not mounting the drive or anything, just close the tray and listen to the rhythmic annoyance of the drive at full speed, then not, then full speed, then not.
I don't see any other suspect processes with top or ps either. Anyone have any idea why this would be if it's not the polling doing it? I'm starting to think a kernel or hardware thing. The drive I have is reported by cdrecord -scanbus as "Optiarc DVD RW AD-7580S FX20".
I'm at a loss. I'm thinking next I'll have to install another distro to at least rule that out, but with so many variables (packages installed, kernel version, driver versions) I don't know that this approach would tell me much.
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Jan 5, 2010
I have a user that is reporting the following error on a bounced message:
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smtp;554 5.6.1 Body type not supported by Remote Host
He is forwarding emails from his exchange server to a recipient in Germany relaying through our smtp server using Surgemail as the MTA.
He called a senior tech specialist at Microsoft to get help thinking the problem was on his end (exchange server). According to this "specialist", he said the problem was that our smtp server was not advertising 8BitMIME in its 250 statement. I tested this myself by log in on to the smtp server and doing typing the following:
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EHLO localhost
250-smtp.<mycompanyname>.com. Hello localhost (127.0.0.1)
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-DSN
[Code]....
As you can see, 250-8BITMIME is not listed here. From the bit of research I made, I found that most MTAs send this by default. Is it possible that the characters from the German language are causing this problem?
NOTE: This problem did not exist or was never reported until now. No one has made any changes on any settings on the server.
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Aug 31, 2011
I've recently upgraded my Lenovo Sl500 laptop from windows vista to windows 7, both 32bit.
Prior to this i had dual boot between CentOs 5.6 and windows vista.
After i have upgraded to windows 7, the dualboot is apparently gone, I am no longer able to boot in linux.
My question is now, how can i fix this, or create a new dual boot?
Im currently left with two partitions, one with Windows 7 installed, and one with CentOs 5.6 installed, but as said, I am unable to acces my linux.
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Jan 28, 2011
I have a copy of AutoCAD, and tried installing it, but the setup.exe file is apparently unexecutable in ubuntu. I tried changing it to executable, but the disc is closed and is in read-only. Does this mean that I can only use CAD on my windows laptop?
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Sep 8, 2010
I have an HP OfficeJet 6500 wireless all in one.I've tried using the HPLIP that comes in the distro, uninstalling that and installing the scripted installer from the site, and manually installing the RPM.Yast isn't detecting my printer, whether I try a USB install or over the network.I have all the dependencies, CUPS is up to date, and this printer is detected by Fedora and Kubuntu.
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Mar 22, 2011
I've followed the instructions that I can find as well as I can, but it seems I've hit a relatively unusual condition. Here's the preliminary stuff:
lspci output:
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0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 05)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device 008c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at 97300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
[code]....
Currently, the interface seems to be set up correctly in the YaST network settings thing, labeled as wlan0, and it doesn't have the 'Not Connected' indicator after it.
EDIT: iwconfig doesn't list wlan0; it just lists eth0 and lo0, saying neither have a wireless extension
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Jun 26, 2010
Tofirst automatic software update was launched on my newly installed openSUSE 11.2 - and apparently it replaced Firefox 3.6.4 with 3.5.9.I tried to find out how to install 3.6.4 using YaST2, but adding the following repository didn't help me any further:Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.2What do I need to do to have YaST2 install the latest firefox version?
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Mar 3, 2011
The system I am working on is a xdsl board running Linux kernel 2.6 and receiving dhcp address from a Microsoft XP PC. when looking through the dhclient.leases file I can see there's something wrong with renew time and stuff.strange calculation. as far as you know is this normal? You may find below the dhclient.lease file.
lease {
interface "tap0";
fixed-address 10.0.1.16;
filename "***";
medium "-link0 -link1 -link2";
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Mar 10, 2011
This seems to be a variant of a problem many people have had, but after several hours trawling through various forums, I haven't seen a reliable match for my situation.In brief:Adding a third boot partition (of Ubuntu) to my existing dual boot of OSX 10.6 and Windows 7 seems to have crippled the Windows boot from working, because Grub apparently takes over the process. Yet Grub does *not* appear to be on the Windows partition.
More verbose:I have an older MacBook Pro (3.1, running Snow Leopard) that I recently refitted with a new 240GB SSD HD. With the extra space (it was previously only 120GB) I decided to add a dual boot with Windows 7 using bootcamp. This all went swimmingly well.Encouraged, I decided to follow this Lifehacker article's suggestion and triple-boot the machine with Ubuntu (I'd never used Linux before):So I now have the nice rEFIt boot partition selection screen, and, indeed, I'm up and running in Ubuntu, and enjoying it.
Only one problem: I can't get into Windows any more. If I try to go in through rEFIt *or* by holding down OPT at startup and selecting the windows partition directly, the result is the same: I get thrown into Grub's selector, and selecting the Windows partition from there leads to an error message and a dead end.Having read through numerous postings, I get the impression that Grub is doing something or living somewhere that it ought not to be, but in most cases I've seen, people had accidentally installed Grub onto the Windows partition (or indeed onto EVERY partition). So far as I can tell, this isn't the case with me. Here's my boot summary:
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
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Apr 9, 2011
I have a 3ware controller that has a RAID 1 of two SATA disks.After an outage, the linux box (which is running ubuntu), restarted and the partition is now mounted read only. I only have the "/" mount point (this is a test server).Now, if I go to the 3ware controller by pressing ALT-3 while booting, I don't see any indication that there is something wrong with the disks.If I let the computer boot, I'm asked by fdisk if I want to fix/ignore/etc the inconsistencies found.
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