Déjà Dup

Messed up Natty where to go from here

Asked by Stewart Moran

Upgraded from 10.10 to Natty about 1 month ago. Fairly new to linux so have been experimenting with programs,what I like and what works for me. A number of programs downloaded and removed. Last evening was reading a blog about Ubuntu Tweak and cleaning system The rest of the story, tweak is doing its thing and than Terminal pops open and I am supposed to mark packages to purge. Blog suggested all but those starting en. Well I only have 4 choices all begining with aa. Can't do anything in popup box but close and than I get a message:
W:GPG error:http//ppa.launchpad.net natty Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY E4010F076C2225A4
E:Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock 1 open (11: Resource temporarily
unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the admi

Figured that I had a problem, so being the genius that I am, I shut down for the night and figured that it would go away. This morning I booted up and tried to run update manager and ended up at the same purge package screen. Closed out, shut down and restarted, without running update manager. Basic programs, Chormium, T bird, Libre appear to work properly altho a little slower. Tried to download Deja Dup through the software center, but am unsure if it installed properly.

Bottom line, any thoughts on how to "fix" Natty, or what do I do from here. Biggest concern is GNUcash or whatever it is called, have 3 years of data on it which due to my own stupidity have had to enter 3 times, and I really do not wish to go thru that exercise for a 4th time.

Thoughts, suggestions, solutions and any thing else would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and expertise.

Last dumb question, can I use Deja Dup to back up to either a flash drive or a disc, which is the preferred method.

Stewart

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

So, it doesn't sound like you are in too bad a situation. Seems like your "package database" is a little confused.

There's an article about this that might help: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/48910

Note that as of this writing, that page is down for maintenance, but here's a cached copy: http://74.6.238.254/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=%22apt-get+f+install%22&fr=moz35&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22apt-get+f+install%22&d=4541893848334549&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=1ee6df01,20f250a4&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=dN9TwS6fTdRuawbhWQWEvQ--

One thing that article mentions that I would specifically recommend is "apt-get -f install" which may fix whatever problem you are having.

How to recover from what you are experiencing is a bit of a different question from backing up with Deja Dup. I would recommend seeking help via the live support channel: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

To your question about whether Deja Dup can back up to a flash drive or a disc. Yes to the flash drive. Not so much to optical discs like CDs or DVDs. Those aren't supported yet. But it can handle USB flash drives just fine.

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Stewart Moran (stewart-1envelope) said : 		#2

Good afternoon Mike,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Linux.com site linked above is still down for maintenance and the link to the cache takes me to a Linux title page but all the links from there refer to site being down for maintenance. Appreciate your recommendation of the live support, I have searched Ubuntu Forums and just am unable to come up with something close to what I have going on.

Will let you know final outcome.

Thanks for the super quick response, I am sure that I will have additional questions as time goes on.

Stewart