Ubuntu :: Repair Broken Packages On HDD From Livecd?
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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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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Jun 4, 2011
2.6.38-8-generic
Mint 11 32bit
I got an Upgrade manager notification in my panel so clicked it to see what needed upgrading. However when I went to upgrade I got an error message saying I had to fix broken packages first. See Screen shot. I opened Synaptic and this says there are no broken packages see synaptic screen shot... Is there a CLI way to look at and repair installed packages? (I checked other threads on LQ and found some advice for Fedora 8 which suggests running an rpm command, however rpm is not the package manager of choice for Mint.)
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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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Jun 5, 2011
I recently upgraded to 11.04 on my WUBI and after a while the OS just stopped booting. Every time I try to boot it drops to the grub command line. I can't boot manually because it says file not found when I enter "linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic" And I can't repair the installation through the LiveCD as it gives the error message:"(initramfs) mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: Input/output error.Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs".Can anyone help with restoring the OS?
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Sep 1, 2011
Is there any way to repair halevt? If I reinstall via synaptic the installation fails with HALevt error 100. Then all installations of any kind report same error. I researched and found a way to remove the app install bug. However, mounting, accessing usb devices is still heavily problematic. I assume halevt needs reinstalling, but seems impossible.
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Mar 31, 2010
I am currently in a country where the internet speed is roughly 15KB at best, if at all. So I cant download the 9.10 live CD. My grub2 broke when I reinstalled windows (because its so virus prone). This guide: [URL]. Says how to repair grub2 using grub2 live CD. Currently I have access to a 6.10 Ubuntu CD but when I try to mount the boot partition I get an error saying that the filesystem has unknown options. I think that the latest filesystem didn't exist back then and even if that would work. Can I reinstall grub2 using grub? Or is there any possibility to download an ultra small linux live system image with grub2? it seems all ubuntu variations come in 500MB+ packs.
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Mar 25, 2011
I'm sorry if this topic has already come up, but My package manager is broken, and when I press repair, it says it can't repair because the package manager is broken. I'm pretty sure the code is
Code:
sudo apt-get install -f
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Oct 23, 2010
I think a recent update to 10.04 somehow has broken my installation. When I turn on the machine, it just sits at the splash screen with the white dots turning orange from left to right as if it is going to boot up.
I have tried letting it sit there but after half an hour it still remains the same. I have tried booting into recovery mode but that fails somewhere along the startup process. Is there a way to 'repair broken installation' when booting up with live cd? I have been able to get to that option and I am trying to avoid doing a fresh install if possible.
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Jul 17, 2011
I seem to have detached the menu system from the bottom panel. There also used to be a large 'K' on the left hand side of the panel that I could click to open the menu system - it is gone too.
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Oct 14, 2014
I have added to Debian Wheezy testing repositories. After a restart there is no desktop anymore just the wallpaper picture is visible but no desktop pop-ups.
When I want to install the desktop through recovery mode, I get an error message that it "can't fetch...repos". How I can repair /etc/apt/sources.list through recovery mode?
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Oct 7, 2010
The computer I'm using is a Dell Vostro 1000. If you need any specific stats, let me know and I'll post them, but I don't have access to anything that will list them.
As of this afternoon, Grub will not longer boot. I don't know what prompted it; the only change I made was to the power management settings and installing IcedTea. It brings me to "BusyBox" after saying "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg." Then it brings me to some command prompt that doesn't respond to most bash commands I know, and it says "(initramfs)."
I had that problem two or three weeks ago after Fedora broke Grub, but I fixed it by using "grub-install" in an Ubuntu LiveCD. (No easy task to find what command I needed to use, though.)
But, now the LiveCD won't load. It hangs on the splash screen that just says "Ubuntu" with the dots underneath that indicate it's loading. This exact same disk (and I've reburned it, of course) worked fine when I had to clean up the mess that Fedora made. I tried switching to a terminal at the point where it hangs and there are no messages at all.
I already tried using acpi = off and burning the disk at the slowest speed (from two different computers).
I tried with the Mepis LiveCD, but the GUI just shows a blank screen. I can run commands using Alt+F2, and the cursor is visible, but that's it. I can switch to a terminal, but I can barely use grub-install at all as it is, and I can't figure out how to mount a drive through the command line.
An older version of a Sabayon Linux LiveCD works fine, but, unfortunately, doesn't do anything useful. I haven't tried Knoppix because it never worked on this computer.
If there are any other distros that I can use to run grub-install (preferably lightweight; I'm getting impatient downloading so many 700 mb iso files), I'm open to suggestion. Those are just the ones that I'm familiar with already.
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Jun 17, 2011
OK as a recent Windows to Ubuntu convert I made a stupid mistake and now would now like to recover my OS, particularly my files.I had happily been running Ubuntu 10.10 but then used Synaptic to remove Python 2.6 (I was having trouble running Python 2.5 with both installed), I selected to remove Python and all it's dependencies (a bad move as I realise now, as it was quite a dependency list in the end!).
I was left with a semi functional desktop, some things worked but many things were broken / unavailable, neither Synaptic or even Terminal would work to situation.I tried rebooting in the forlorn hope that I would get some recovery options, but it would not boot, boot starts, gets to grub (top left flashing cursor), then that disappears and I am presented with a black screen and nothing then happens. If I then do a hard power down the screen very briefly shows some text (something like enter password) as it shuts down.
Subsequent boot ups just do the same thing. If I boot with an installation disk and move forward to the partition step the original partition is shown as in tact.So, my main question is, is there a way of recovering my OS without the use of low level disk recovery utils (which may be a bit painful and long winded). e.g. what happens if I install 'over the top' of my original installation, will my file system be in tact
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Dec 10, 2010
I recently tried to upgrade my graphics card. I had an Intel GMA 950, and upgraded to a PNY Nvidia GEForce 8400GS with 512 DDR I installed the card, and was unsuccessful in getting it to work, but while using the onboard graphics I updated the drivers in ubuntu to use the Nvidia proprietary drivers. I went into a cycle of rebooting and fiddling. booting into Ubuntu was successful with the onboard card, however I only got a command line. I used nano to change my xorg.conf from saying
Driver "nvidia". I simply deleted this portion in the hope that X11 would simply think on its feet. Onboard graphics wouldn't deliver any X session after that. I eventually got the card to work after futzing with the BIOS settings, however once I tried to boot, I got the error "init : ureadahead main process (264) terminated with status 5" after numerous upgrades, my GRUB menu has several kernels, however none of them would boot properly, including recovery sessions.
I decided to boot into a livecd to edit my xorg.conf in a Live environment, but I was unsuccessful, the LiveCD (simply Maverick Meerkat, after trying Karmic Koala) got stuck in a loop of not being able to detect media in /dev/sr0, which is very puzzling. So now I'm stuck with a computer with a functioning video card and nothing else.
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Sep 9, 2010
I downloaded the ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso and I have the APTonCD program to make the cd. But I was wondering if thee is a script to redownload all the packages I've installed on the system? I usually keep my APT clean so I have nothing in the folder to use.
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Jul 9, 2010
I have a following problem: Recently my drive with Ubuntu 9.4 has mysteriously stopped working, i.e. when I switch the computer on it informs me that GRUB didn't find the filesystem. Well, I suppose it happens.
First, I though it was due to the drive dying, but I popped it in an external enclosure and HDTune told me the drive was fine. Wanting to recover the files on the drive before reinstalling I first tried to mount it in said external enclosure under Windows (I have Win Ext2 driver installed which used to work just fine). This time, however, drive gets assigned a letter but upon opening it Windows popped up an error saying that the drive was not formatted and whether I would like to format it then.
Unfazed by this streak of failures I tried to mount it under Linux but, alas, to no avail. I might have tried every single -t operator under mount command but it still won't budge and let me mount.
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Aug 12, 2010
how to add packages to an existing Ubuntu ISO or LiveCD (Think like slipstreaming Windows Service Packs into Windows installation CDs, if that helps). I want to add things such as more games or the restricted extras plugins so that I don't have to go get them every time I install the OS on someone's computer, things like that. Not as important, but if it would be possible to remove packages
PS I'm not necessarily looking for a specific version, but I'm currently running 9.10 on one machine and 10.04 (soon to be 10.10) on another. A guide for any Ubuntu distro would be fine though. I'm just as interested in learning the theory of it as I am the actual execution.
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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:
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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.
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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 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:
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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;
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$ 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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