Ubuntu :: Error Value: Coercing To Unicode: Need String Or Buffer, Exceptions.SystemError Found
Sep 24, 2010
I'm getting the following error Kpackagekit when I'm trying to refresh the packages, so I can manually check if there are any new updates. I have totally uninstalled the software, and reinstalled, but this has no effect. The following is what I see in a seperate popup.
Error Type:
Error Value: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, exceptions.SystemError found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2216, in
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2213, in main
run(args, options.single)
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I am running the 64bit version of 10.04 on a dual core 2GB acer laptop.
I'm trying to install ubuntu 10.10 on xp,but, after waiting around 2 hours per instalation I received a error message that says:" unbuntu installer : and error occurred: coercing to unicode: need string or buffer, none Type found. for more information see log file C:1customerlocals-1 empwubi-10.10-rev197.109. I tried on one particion make just for it then I even tried on xp on C: I even put it on a pendrive but my bios is old and do not provide for usb booting. The other thing I have to try is making a boot cd but for one reason or the other , my recorder do not want to recornized my cds- rw and right now I do not have any regular blank cds . That will be my next step. Note: Ubuntu appears installed on the the control panel "add or removed programs" but not in "all programs" list. I'm a novice on this so maybe the answer was posted but I couldn't find it. Looking ahead to try it and be part of the linux team.
I installed vbox and windowsXP as guest and fedora13 as host. As discussed in [URL] i have run: Quote: $ VBoxManage sharedfolder add "WinXP" -name "Downloads" -hostpath "/home/rudra/Downloads" --readonly but in guest, as i prompted Quote: net use x: \vboxsvrDownloads it gives error: Systemerror 53 has occured the network path was not found
I have a one problem when i mapped a SAN to the linux box RHEL 5.3 i show the following messeage Buffer IO error on Device /dev/sdband unable to find it in fdisk -l
i have a inspiron 1520 laptop which is starting to slow down some so i thought linux would help because all i do is internet use, so i download it from another computer and mount it to a usb flash drive like the site says, (netbook remix latest version) then i put it in my laptop and it loads all the way and i press try and after about 10 minutes of loading it lets me try. so that was ok really slow but i thought id install it to hard drive to see if it improved speed. so the next time i start my laptop i get Buffer i/o error on device loop0 logical block xxxxxx so i redo the usbflashdrive no errors switch usb ports and same thing, ive done the switch usb ports and redo the flash drive about 4 times im really getting mad at linux before i even have it installed.
I have an external usb disk connected to a Debian desktop. A couple of days ago these messages started appearing in dmesg
Code: [154343.010908] EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=14352940, block=57409572 [154343.014425] EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #13272620 offset 0 [154343.014913] EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #3440641 offset 0 [154343.022172] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 53138974 [154343.022209] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 [154343.022218] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 53138976 [154343.022252] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 [154343.022256] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 53138977
When this appears the disk becomes unavailable and I have to remove and plug it in and mount again. After that it works couple of hour and then the problem appears again. Is this a hardware problem?
I am trying to debug the issue of a desktop that has for the last two weeks started having kernel panics at boot time. This machine has been running flawlessly for the last 8 years, and has had three OS upgrades. I am using memtest to try to understand the issue. The following is part of the memtest output: Reading all physical volumes Buffer I/O error device hdc logical block 0 Buffer I/O error device hdc logical block 15
Illegal node for this track or incompatible media (asc=0x64 ascq=0x00) The failed "Read 10" packet command was /dev/hdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0 Input/output error and similar set of mesaages After this udev checks correctly, and hardware, storage and audio are initialized However sometime in the middle of the boot process, a kernel panic occurs with message Kernel panic -- not symcing : Fatal exception in interrupt
I am trying to delete these symbols "[ ]" from a file but it says string not found. I tried: %s/[//g while editing the file not working also tried sed -e '/[/d' and sed '/]/d' still no job.
I have 2 hdds, with encrypted / and /home. Besides there are four other (encrypted ext4) partitions I use rarely. In Fedora 11 at boottime I gave the luks passphrase for / and home and the system booted as intended.
Whenever I needed those extra encrypted partitions I mounted them in Nautilus. Now, in Fedora 12 at boottime dracut tries to open all the encrypted partitions, / and /home are mounted fine, but opening all the other partitions gave the following messages in messages.log:
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dracut: luksOpen /dev/sdb6 luks-02a0e706-a26f-4019-a2a0-88a0366a994d kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 124 kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device temporary-cryptsetup-304 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 124 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 124
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...and these messages are repeated with the other partiitions, and the boot time takes very, very long. How can I tell dracut to ignore those extra encrypted partitions at boottime?
I am facing a problem while installing backtrack 4.0 on my virtual box. After assigning a hard drive and booting from the live cd, i am receiving a error message as follows:
Loading, please wait... Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 76636 (this statement gets repeated like four times with different logical block id. SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x5bb337b9 SQUASHFS error: unable to read is index table.
It is not the first time i install operating systems on virtual box though it is the first time i receive such an error with backtrack.
I just downloaded an iso of the latest CentOS dist (5.3) and burned it to disk. I booted from the CD and received the following error: Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissible range Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq-0x00) The failed "read 10" packet command was: Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 176935
(This error message repeats for another 9 or 10 times then it says the following) Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting Setting up new root fs (Then there are some unmounts which are old /dev, /proc, /sys. At this point a series of steps begin).
Setting Clock Starting udev Loading default keymap (us) Setting hostname local host.localdomain Setting up logical volume management Checking file systems
These are just some of the steps that appear after the above error is displayed, all of the steps that load have an ok status. After those are completed I get to a text prompt - localhost login: At this point my keyboard does not seem to respond, pressing enter or any of the other keys seems to have no effect. I noticed that during the load process I could toggle the light for caps and num lock, but at the login screen it does'nt work. So at this point I'm not sure if I'm having a technical issue or if its just another case of an user error.
I am having trouble using grep command. I want to search for each line in first file in second file and if they are present, write to file called successfile else to failfile. Below is the code
what is happening is, when the first failure occurs (when a line in first file is not present in second file), the script is killed.
Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? code...
Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this to continue the boot sequence.
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block ******* sr 4:0:0:0 [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK sr 4:0:0:0 [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] sr 4:0:0:0 [sr0] ASC=0x10 <<vendor>> ASCQ=0x90 end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1395920 Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -499902943 ns)
loops that during install. new hard drive fresh out of box. WD 320GB 7200 Toshiba Qosmio intell core duo i've installed with this same disk before previous hard drive died. installed over windows vista. this time im trying to install solo no windows disk to reinstall with, F10 only. I've tried other distros as well, Mandriva one 2009, Dreamlinux, and this one. i've suspected hard drive controller went out but i can format and partition the drive. also the cd/dvd drive is bad but im booting from cd fine. tried removing the cd drive and booting from an external usb cd rom, same errors.
im about to deploy and need my computer up and running ASAP. 7 months no entertainment is not good. when i use a linux boot disk from Ultimate Boot Disk (UBD) i get an error of - hda status no response and something about invalid heads dreamlinux pushes past the error till i get the error about cant start x server. about my graphics
I'm getting this error when restarting clamav-daemon:clamd libClamAV Error: cli_dbgets: Line too long for provided bufferThis happened on two systems today after I upgraded via apt. Versions used: Debian Lenny w/ clamav-daemon 0.96.3+dfsg-1~volatile1Has anyone seen this and know what to do? clamd seems to be running, and the
OS: Opensuse 11.4 Webcam: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:08ac Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Cool Error Message: libv4l2: error allocating conversion buffer. The quality of my webcam output is very poor. I am uncertain as to what I can do to re
I know this has been discussed a lot, but my problem is that i get this error on almost every application, not only broadcom drivers, but also virtualbox, skype and many other applications that it made me think that all of this because of a common problem, i always get the the same message:Code:SystemError: installArchives() failedActually this may force me to return to Lucid release (10.04),
I've been having an issue ever since I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10. It won't connect to my network for some reason. I enter the WEP key and all the other info, but it fails to connect. I tried to install the Broadcom STA Driver under Additional Drivers but then I get an error message saying SystemError: installArchives()failed.
i've just burned a livecd (fedora 11), but it doesn't work correctly.it says after i hit boot:
BUFFER I/O error on device sr0 logical block 352328
and then something else, which is similar so i didn't write it down.i read on bugzilla, that is should try to append the boot command with pci=nomsi, but it doesn't work for me
I can't get my fglrx drivers activated, every time I try I get an error message. I first tried going into System-->Administration-->Additional Drivers and activating it their but I get this error message: SystemError: installArchives() failed. I tried using some jockey command (my apologies as I can't quite remember the command) and I got the same error message. I was searching around on google and I someone said to type Code: aticonfig --initial Into a terminal and now my computer is running really slowly and I can't get it to run like normal. My windows scroll down in increments, when I try to move a window it jumps around, I can't handle how slowly this thing is going.
MOBO: Asus M4A87TD/USB3 CPU: AMD Athlon II x2 245 GPU: Radeon HD5770 RAM: Corsair VS2GB1333D3 2GB (1333MHz) DDR3 RAM, Non ECC Unbuffered, 9-9-9-24, 1.5V PSU: 600 watt shark HDD: West Gate 1TB 7200RPM SATA2 OS: Ubuntu 10.10
The external hard drive which contains all my photos and where I backed-up all my important documents is no longer recognized. It is a three month old 500GB Iomage Prestige Desktop Hard Drive.When I plug it in, it is recognised as a USB device, because it shows up when I type lsusb, but dmesg gives this error message.
[19712.013250] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21 [19712.145347] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [19712.147214] scsi25 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
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I popped the disk out of the casing put it on a SATA connect internally and then tried the file recovery programs testdisk/photorec and SpinRite, but both failed because they couldn't recognize the external hard disk.
every time I try to connect to the ftp server I setup i am recieving this error Response:*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/sbin/vsftpd terminated Error:Could not connect to server
When I download the drivers for my Broadcom card (BCM-4312), I get this error message:
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SystemError: installArchives() failed
Is there any way to fix it, or should I post to launchpad about a bug? I have 10.10. Update: When I install from the Ubuntu Software Center, it completes successfully, but I get this error message: installArchives() failed: Selecting previously deselected package glines.
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(Reading database ... <snip> (Reading database ... 100% (Reading database ... 131362 files and directories currently installed.)
