Upgrade calls for ensuring latest updates to Karmic are installed before upgrading to 10.04 LTS. Every attempt to update hangs, yielding the following dialogue:
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B152F042D246C25D I guess I am sort of stuck in nowhere land here.
when I try to upgrade from Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS towards Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS (via internet, not ISO-CD), following error is displayed:
" Could not install the upgrades
Error during commit
'E:Couldn't configure pre-depend jre for openoffice.org-writer2latex, probably a dependency cycle.'
Restoring original system state "
I deleted all Open Office package and other options were checked, but no success. Hardware: Notebook Toshiba Qosmio G45-AV480.
Have a dual boot: vista & ubuntu (64bit). Clicked the upgrade to 10.04 in update manager & spent a couple of hours downloading & installing. Had several requests about menu.lst. Which i replied keep the current Big mistake (i think) because on the reboot all the options are for 9.1. Tried the top option and 10.04? (i think) comes up but mouse & keyboard are inop.Booted with super grub cd & let it boot gnu/linux. Looks like 10.04 came up (how can u tell?) and seems to run ok. So what can i do to get the 10.04 options when rebooting without the grub cd?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI know why this happened, but I need to know what problems it's going to cause and how I can re-install / fix the problem. I have my /tmp folder mounted as -noexec ... so when I did a recent update to my 10.04.1 LTS server installation, I got the following errors:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-server
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/init-premount/lvm2: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/init-top/all_generic_ide: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/init-top/blacklist: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/init-top/udev: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/panic/console_setup: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/init-bottom/udev: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/local-premount/fixrtc: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/local-premount/ntfs_3g: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/local-premount/resume: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/nfs-top/udev: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 329: /tmp/mkinitramfs_H30dak/scripts/local-bottom/ntfs_3g: Permission denied
Press return to continue.
What should I do now? (besides, obviously, removing the -noexec flag from /tmp so this doesn't happen again!)
She was running a script in R (which was supposed to take a regression from R and output to LaTeX) but it failed, causing a "massive core dump" and shut down her computer. She rebooted, performed a recovery, but her system was still running slowly so she decided to upgrade to Narwhal. At this point she received an error message saying that the upgrade was interrupted by an eclipse package, and it failed, saying that her (disk? she couldn't remember) "may not be recoverable." Now, when I try to boot from GRUB, from any kernel listed ($22, $25, $27, and $28 ), I get the following error message:
I booted from a LiveCD, and it worked (including the splash screen). I then scanned the hard drive with smartctl, and looked at it in Gparted. Nothing seemed amiss. I could open files stored on the hard drive from the LiveCD, so I think there is something wrong with the boot process but I don't know how to fix it. One idea I've got is to run Super GRUB Disk and see if that fixes my boot problems.
Booted my laptop up for the first time in a while and ran
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sudo apt-get upgrade to get updates for my packages. After installing I needed a reboot since I was on kernel 2.6.35-28. Post-reboot, I get stuck on a black screen with random artifacts after the purple screen after Grub, regardless of kernel (back to 2.6.35-22 is the oldest I have) with exception to the recovery mode options. Pressing the power button will shutdown the system in what seems to be the usual manner. The screen changes to the purple with ubuntu in the middle and the dot loading bar and shuts down.
I booted into recovery mode and opted to repair packages and rebooted but to no avail. I can get into a terminal by editing the boot options in Grub swapping out " quiet splash vt.handoff=7 " with "--verbose". Currently have a terminal on kernel 2.6.38-10 Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit. Win 7 partition also boots fine.This feels like a driver issue, but I'm not sure. Boot log (/var/log/boot.log) looks fine except for these lines:
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fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3: clean, 262541/8560640 files, 2310841/36228480 blocks
init: ureadahead-other main process (723) terminated with status 4
The first 2 shouldn't be affecting my Ubuntu boot in this manner (other than failing to automatically mount my NTFS partition, which is a different problem), however the last one worries me. Doing some research on the termination status 4 of ureadahead-other I came across this page here, but am wary to just go around willy-nilly deleting things I don't know much about. It wouldn't be a great loss to simply blow the disk away and restart, but I'd rather salvage what's there if I can..
I'm attempting to upgrade my Ubuntu 8.04 VPS to 10.04 and I'm having some trouble with the final stages of the installation. This is a section of the output I get (seems to be the bit that is going wrong):
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Checking init scripts...
WARNING: this version of the GNU libc requires kernel version
2.6.18 or later. Please upgrade your kernel before installing
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P.S. I don't mind doing another fresh upgrade from the initial 8.04. So the problem is just how to prevent these errors from coming up again.
I am using a Dell dimension 4550 with pentium 4 processor. My current BOIS is A01. I am running Slackware 13. My current problem is that whenever I reboot, the keyboard fails just before the kernel selection page. This isn't a huge problem because I only have one kernel to boot but it is quite annoying. Whenever I shutdown the computer and boot it up again the keyboard works fine. The problem only occurs when I reboot.How do I fix this? Would updating the BIOS solve the problem?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI run Etch. Yes, it's oldstable, but Lenny and Squeeze annoy the heck out of me. However, I'm trying to install the latest version (5.1) of Google Earth, but it requires >=glibc-2.4. Etch only offers 2.3.something. The earlier version of GE I have (4.3) does work, but is apparently no longer supported by Google as it fails to connect every time I fire it up. I found Lenny does have the required libc6 version. Can I update the libc6 packages by installing them directly (separately downloaded packages) or do I get the dependency hell that I want to avoid?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI upgraded the boot loader using apt-get upgrade. So Grub upgraded and I believe it automatically ran the upgrade-grub-from-legacy executable. I was confused on what to do so I selected all drives. When I did that, I received a bunch of messages, I will write only non-redundant ones:
mdadm group disk not found (many times, over 20 or so) installation finished, no errors reported (4 times, I guess for my 4 hard drives)Found linux image vmlinux Found initrd image Next, I reboot, and absolutely nothing, not even a grub prompt!! So I tried the following:
1) grub-install /dev/sda1
2) Super grub disk
3) Ubuntu Server Installation CD in rescue mode trying, I get the infamous red error screen when trying to install grub
Nothing worked! My partitions are all there and I can see them and mount them from rescue CD, but I cannot boot to the system, My partitions layout:
One LVM sitting on two RAID-1 Drives Sitting on all four hard drives sda, sdb, sdc, sdd
One Root partition /dev/md2 in RAID-1 Drive sitting on two of the four drives (sda2 and sdb2) Four bios_grub partitions sda1, sdb1, sdc1 and sdd1 each ~1MB Two Swap partitions on two raid drives
I would give more detail but I think the problem is probably in the bootloader configuration because I can access all partitions including LVM and RAIDs from the rescue CD.
While updating and upgrading, I got this at the command prompt:
Code: Select all ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
Unfortunately my laptop was powered off whilst the Updater Applet was doing an update. Now, after a reboot, the system always fails when updating. Neither the Updater Applet nor yast does succeed. To me it looks like some involved DB got corrupted. The error messages are shown below.
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Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: package systemtap-runtime-0.9.9-2.4.i586 is not installed
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Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index
error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
error: error(-30987) getting "" records from Requireversion index .....
I put my two SATA hard drives in a new computer (new mb, cpu, no pci SATA adapter, built-in nVidia graphics), and I thought everything was going well. The Mythbuntu logo came up, but the bar at the bottom did not move. It eventually dropped me out to a (initramfs) prompt.
When I used the recovery mode, this is where it had problems:
[ 4.756000]ata1:SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 5.068000]ata2:SATA link down (SSTatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 5.552000]ata3:SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 5.864000]ata4:SATA link down (SSTatus 0 SControl 300)
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I had a SATA PCI card in my old computer, would adding that to the new system make it work? Is there someway to update the UUID numbers (I think I have done this before).
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Beta 2 64-bit
Dual-boot with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Compaq CQ50-215NR laptop with 3GB system memory, 1.9GHz Athlon X2 QL-60 dual-core processor, nVIDIA GeForce 8200M G, 160GB HDD
Today I decided to install the BURG bootmenu on my computer so that I could enjoy nice, pretty graphical bootmenus instead of boring old text-based ones.I installed and configured BURG using this tutorial(after some few snafus wherein I tried to use older tutorials and went through many needless complicated steps that didn't end up working anyway).Restarted, and it worked great - except for one thing. Windows would no longer boot.It would get to the "Starting Windows" screen, then about halfway through there it would flash and restart.It wouldn't start in "Startup Repair Mode" either (the same thing happened). So, I did some frantic googling, and discovered this thread. I followed a set of instructions posted therein to install Lilo, reconfigure my MBR to Windows' liking, and reinstall Grub2.Windows booted after that.Well, I thought that the problem must have been caused by one of the numerous false starts I made while trying to get BURG installed, so I installed BURG again, set it up again, and bang - Windows wouldn't boot any more.So, I re-did the MBR with Lilo again, only this time I forgot to reinstall Grub2 (oops!) and had to boot from my LiveCD and install it thataway.At any rate, I'm fairly certain that installing BURG is what's keeping Windows from booting.
Following the instructions, I get to a little after "setting software channels" and a blcr-dkms_0.8.2-13 blacklist error pops-up and ends the installation.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi am trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from 8.04, and am getting this warning:"Upgrading may reduce desktop effects, and performance in games and other graphically intensive programs.This computer is currently using the AMD 'fglrx' graphics driver. No version of this driver is available that works with your hardware in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.Do you want to continue?"should i continue? i have no idea what a 'fglrx graphics driver' is
View 4 Replies View Relatedi tried to download the nvidia driver for a custom version of opensuse 11.1 but it comes up with an error after i fill in the server name and directory on server which prevents the installation. help!
the error is: ERROR! A valid domain name consists of components seperated by dots. Each component contains letters, digits, numbers, and hyphens. A hyphen may not start or end a component and the last component may not begin with a digit. A valid IP address consists of four integers in the range of 0-255 seperated by dots.
however, i have not got a domain name or an ip filled in. the download website (Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users) did not provide either. i dont know why it wont work without them.
I have a 3dsp pci wifi card, and the last kernel it supports is Ubuntu 10.04 2.6.32-(21-24) I want to update but dont want to accidentally update the kernal.
View 3 Replies View Related"I get message ubuntu System policy prevents shutting down" when i try to turn off ubuntu ( i get similar message when i try to restart too )
Am the only user I have installed hsqldb-server ( and mb he has something to do with it )
Since installing Lucid, I find that the shutdown button doesn't work (does nothing) if the OpenOffice.org quickstarter is running. To shutdown I either have to kill the quickstarter or run shutdown manually from a terminal window. Hibernation doesn't work either, although suspension does.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have ubuntu 10.04 and winxp dual boot and if you leave magic jack plugged in the usb ubuntu will boot up to the desk top sometimes and freeze and other times nothing. No boot at all. Also had same thing happen with linux lime 9. For some reason the the magic jack when inserted into the usb of computer revents linux form booting. I thought ubuntu was messed up but when I put linux lime on drive by it self found out the magic jack was the cause mentioned this.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter a stint of using Ubuntu exclusively, I'm trying to install Windows 7 again. However, when I select boot from CD/DVD in the boot menu, I just get the GRUB menu.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSo, I've done a lot of stupid things, but this one ranks pretty high. So I'm looking at files here and there, fooling around and tweaking things if I can, but after a while, I get sick and tired of having to fiddle around because a file's owner is root. So, completely ignoring the fact I could start an x session as root, I perform the following command:
chown -hR MY-USERNAME / I'm thinking to myself, "Oh look at me, I'm so smart" until I turn off my laptop for the night and come back this morning, and ubuntu (10.10, 32 bit) says it could not change ICE authority (or something like that) and a few more error messages. Then, I boot into the recovery console, and again, not even bothering to think anything through properly, I chown everything back to root, then chown my home folder back to me. Anyway, I still get the error message, execpt now I can't alt-c to close the first windows that talks about the ICE authority file.
One of my friends has an ubuntu partition, so I can ask him about certain ownerships, but that could take a while and I don't know where to start.
After having tested Ubuttu 9.10 on a VM with Win XP Pro as host and running both Ubuntu 9.10 and 8.04 from a CD/CDR drive I decided to do an installation of 8.04 on a separate HD and import files.Installation seemed to work OK, but on reboot: no menu was shown to choose OS and the machine booted directly into Windows.Tried to boot directly from the "Ubuntu" HD in the BIOS boot menu and get the message "MBR error" full stop literally.The Ubuntu hard drive is no longer recognised in Windows , can't be acessed from the DOS prompt and obviously cannot be reformatted from there.Just for the record, I'm not totally excluding operator error from the cause
View 9 Replies View RelatedI had Ubuntu 8.04 & Windows Xp installed on by 80GB Hard Disk by giving 40GB each to Ubuntu & Xp. Due to some problem in Windows Xp (nothing new) i had to reinstall Windows Xp. I had taken backup of all data on Windows & Ubuntu fully knowing that Grub would go haywire.
Now i want to install Ubuntu 10.04 on the 40GB that was earlier occupied by Ubuntu 8.04 from CD.
I'm posting the output of sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2612 9729 57175335 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2612 3916 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS
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Should i delete all Linux partitions ? What and how many partitions (min.) should i make ? What partition should i use as mount ? Should i use ext3 or ext4 in all partitions ?
I am running 10.04 32-bit on my compaq nc6320 laptop and I am just wondering if there is an easy way to do the upgrade to 10.10 but upgrade to the 64-bit kernel.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi want my ubuntu 10.10 to be updated to the new version.But,before updating i would like to know few things such as should i need all my software's to be installed once when i upgrade to the new version.
I have oracle installed in this 10.10..So,will upgrading to the newer version needs the installation of Oracle again?
installed ubuntu 10.04, i possess the BSNL EVDO AC8700 , i downloaded the package for the same from the zte website but when i try to install it its giving the following error
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(Reading database ... 123335 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace crossplatformui 1.0.27 (using .../CrossPlatformUI-V1.0.27-B
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In the past month or two I've run into a strange problem where Grub gives error 18 "Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS". Strange because:
1) after a few tries it mysteriously starts working again without any change on my part
2) I am not running a dual boot system, which seems to be the usual cause of this problem
3) though I have SATA hard drives, I have the RAID capabilities disabled in the BIOS, which can also apparently lead to this problem.
I'm currently running lucid but it also happened once before I upgraded. It seemed to start happening not too long after I installed a new 1TB drive, though that drive is only mounted under /mnt/backup, and not anywhere else of importance, so it may be a coincidence.
Here are some specs on my machine:
BIOS is ALive NF6G-VSTA P1.80
I have 2 SATA drives (no IDE drives except DVD-ROM):
/dev/sda is a 200GB Samsung drive with two partitions
- sda1 is about 197GB and includes / (including /boot)
- sda2 is about 3GB of swap
/dev/sdb is a 1TB Western Digital Drive
- 1 partition mounted at /mnt/backup
If the problem is that I don't have a separate partition for /boot, shouldn't the error show up every time I boot, not just once in a while?
I recently noticed a bug with ndiswrapper in Ubuntu 10.4 which would prevent the mounting of new USB device classes. This bug has been noticed somewhere else, in particular in at least one older Ubuntu version, but has been carried over. This doesn't seem to be widely discussed, or the solution worked anecdotally, but the problem is actually more general in nature. At the moment I found a workaround that always works, but I don't have a permanent fix.
The problem kicks in only after ndiswrapper module is loaded into the kernel. Devices of the same USB *types* that were recognized *before* ndiswrapper is loaded will continue to work. For example, an USB memory stick will be mounted fine if an USB hard disk had already been used at some point before ndiswrapper was loaded. However, if one plugs in any other new type of device, for example, an USB mouse, after ndiswrapper is loaded, the new USB device will not be mounted. The workaround solution is to disable ndiswrapper before introducing a new type of USB device by doing:sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper
Then, plug in the USB device. After it is successfully mounted, do: sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
The corollary is that if ndiswrapper is loaded into the kernel upon boot-up, only USB devices which were present at the boot stage will be recognized. But performing the above kludge will allow new devices to be recognized.It'd be nice if someone can come up with a more elegant fix.