Ubuntu :: Error Message: Software Index Is Broken
Sep 2, 2010
I get the following message when I try to add or remove programs. This includes when I try to use the Update Manager: Software index is broken. It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first. When I follow this advice, I get the following message:
tom@Compaq:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
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?
If anyone can offer suggestions about this problem, Although I've been using Ubuntu for a while, I'm not very confident with the command line (unless I am copy and pasting commands!)
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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 18, 2010
Just upgraded to 10.10, evolution worked the first time but has not worked since. Have tried re installation but no joy. Starting for terminal shows:-
(evolution:16876): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
It was working in 10.04.
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I downgraded to Compiz 8.6 with the GNOME 2 desktop using these instructions: [URL]. Today, however, my system wanted to do a "system upgrade", and now I get warning messages like this:
Code:
emil@Emilubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
ubuntu-desktop depends on unity; however:
Package unity is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ubuntu-desktop
And when trying update manager:
Software index is broken
Code:
It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first
Now I'm not sure it is good advice to do sudo apt-get install in force mode, since the problem seems to be - I'm guessing - that update manager is trying to install packages with are for the unity desktop and not my classic gnome+compiz 8.6 desktop.
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Jan 31, 2010
I was going to install a certain application, and apt-get said I had unsatisfied dependencies. So I typed
Code: sudo apt-get install -f
But the overall size of the packages it was going to install was quite substantial, so I renounced this idea and chose "No". Now I've got problems installing software - I keep getting "Software index is broken" message. I found this thread which suggests I use 'apt-get install -f'. But as I've said, the problem is that I no longer need those tons of packages that would be installed in this case. Is there a way to erase the list of packages marked for installation or maybe there's some other way to fix that?
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I am running gnome Fedora 12 and when I log in I get:'Battery may be brokenYour battery has a very low capacity (16%) , which means that it may be old or broken.'My battery is working fine as I can run my laptop on battery alone. I ran the following commands and got the output:
Code:
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
present: yes
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Dec 31, 2010
Using IMAP to retrieve emails in Evolution is not working correctly. Some messages are recieved, others are not. Those messages that cannot be recieved, reports the following error message: Unable to retrieve message
Running the following;
evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
2.6.32-26-generic
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Apr 30, 2009
Hi I am running a fedora 10 desktop. when i send an email using evolution the message was not sent but returns a error message:"Error while performing operation.DATA command failedError: 550 Viagra SPAM - Hi in Subject" and the message did not have an attachment just plain words. what might have gone wrong for i have been using this for sometime without a problem. or what security measures should be in place to remove this viagra spamAm I infected by virus on this fedora, all my updates are up to date.
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Im trying to instal Sun Virtualbox but when download completes and I click on install I get the following error>>Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) I wont even bother with this software if there are others out there that are as easy to use. I used it on Windows and thought it was great ! (thats how I eventually switched to Linux, by using it virtually at first)
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May 9, 2010
I am getting the following errors continuously whenever I update/save a config file in /etc/
Code:
error: line 29136: bad flag vector alias
error: line 29137: bad flag alias index: 0
The config file got updated though. I am just worried that this may be something bad.I update the files using the command sudo gedit <config_file>. I haven't encountered this before in Karmic. Has anyone encountered the same error messages? This might be a problem with gedit. I tried doing the following and the error messages also came up:
1. In terminal, gedit foo.txt
2. In gedit, type anything and save
3. Terminal will show the following:
Code:
...
...
error: line 19234: bad flag vector alias
[code]....
Running artha from the terminal also causes the error.I've managed to get the top-most line of the error:
error: line 15: bad flag alias index: 0
error: line 15: bad flag vector alias
The hardest thing about this is I have no idea what's causing it. I thought it was gedit but running artha (from the terminal) also causes the error.Sigh. This is a clean install of Lucid, which again makes it even harder to know what causes it.
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Oct 2, 2010
I keep getting the following error when I run sudo apt-get update:
Quote:
W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error:
[URL] release Release: NO_PUBKEY 5D654504F1A41D5E
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Mar 19, 2011
Failed to fetch [URL] 404 Not Found Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I have been getting this for a while now complete with a red triangle with an ! in it on the panel.
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I did the UPGRADE from Karmic Koala to Lucid, and everything was going well. But now I've been having problems with the UBUNTU UPDATE tool for the last 2 weeks. Every time I try to do an update check on the packages, I get the following message:Failed to fetch http:[url]....Release Unable to find expected entry deb-src/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.I've tried changing the servers to MAIN and others, and still no way to solve it. I've also checked for other posts, but haven't found a solution yet. Here's my SOURCES LIST (gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list)# See http:[url].... for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution.
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Since I have installed fedora 13 in my system (HP pavilion 1506tx) I rtsam getting this error every time my system starts/ restarts. I don't know how to correct this error. Here is the message displayed in Automatic Bug reporting tool
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WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:647 check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191()
Hardware name: HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC
Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address zero!
BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard; Ver: F.55; Product Version: 039B140000241210100020000
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686 #1
Call Trace:
[<c0436df5>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7c
[<c09d92a3>] ? check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191
[<c0436e40>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x24/0x27
[<c09d92a3>] check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191
[<c05edc18>] ? acpi_get_table_with_size+0x53/0xa1
[<c09d93c8>] detect_intel_iommu+0x11/0x69
[<c09bd888>] pci_iommu_alloc+0x8/0xa
[<c09ca721>] mem_init+0xe/0x245
[<c09b776a>] start_kernel+0x1bf/0x34b
[<c09b73e7>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x18e
[<c09b7099>] i386_start_kernel+0x99/0xa0
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I keep getting this error when trying to update but I know it is a bug and has been filed as a bug report.
Code:
Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100429)/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release amd64 (20100429)/dists/lucid/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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I already had apache2 installed and have installed php5 etc.
When I try to access index.php I get an http error 500 and when I check the logs of my apache2 it shows:
PHP Code:
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[root@PC ~]# yum list installed| grep -i nmap
rpmdb: Thread/process 2405/3078244032 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
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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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i am trying to update my system from a new clean install that i made i am running the update from yast and i am getting the listed message:
Code:
Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unexpected file type or format
error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
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Feb 18, 2011
Having a bit of an issue with Python while trying to write a script to download every rar file on a webpage. The script successfully downloads any link that doesn't contain any spaces, etc. But when it hits a url like: [URL] (Classical Spelling).rar. It fails...I'm sure this is something simple, but I'm so new to python I'm not sure what to do!
Code:
import urllib2
import os
os.system("curl [URL] -i rar|cut -d '"' -f 2 > temp.out ")
infile =open('temp.out', 'r')
for url in infile:
print url
#url = "[URL]"
#url = target
file_name = url.split('/')[-1]
u = urllib2.urlopen(url)
f = open(file_name, 'w')
meta = u.info()
file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
print "Downloading: %s Bytes: %s" % (file_name, file_size)
file_size_dl = 0
block_sz = 8192
while True:
buffer = u.read(block_sz)
if not buffer:
break
file_size_dl += block_sz
f.write(buffer)
status = r"%10d [%3.2f%%]" % (file_size_dl, file_size_dl * 100. / file_size)
status = status + chr(8)*(len(status)+1)
print status,
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I am trying to install flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386.rpm so I inputed the folowing command and got the following error output:
Code:
bash-3.1$ rpm -i *.rpm
error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: cannot open Conflictname index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
error: Failed dependencies:
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Gives error message permission denied. I've seen this in your forums but I still haven't found the fix. I've tried the latest release Wubi downloader too. This one is ran from a CD. Version 10.04
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Apr 15, 2011
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i dont know what to do with this issue ... i am not professional in ubuntu ..
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