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Update Manager Problem

Asked by RichPicker

I have kept Update Manager turned OFF, because in the past, some updates have caused problems with my sound card. I would rather refuse the updates, instead of asking for help all the time about the sound card. But now my laptop won't play movies. It needs plugins, etc. It is out-of-date.

When I try to run Update Manger, I get this:
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A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Dynamic MMap ran out of room, E:Error occurred while processing kde4utils (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty-backports_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
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What should I do?
Thank you.

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RichPicker (rich-braden) said : 		#1

I increased the cache size of the apt-get.conf file. This allowed me to run sudo apt-get upgrade. But now the sound card is dead again. The necessary line of text is still in the modprobe.d/alsa-base file. But no sound card. I had the update manager turned off to avoid having to completely rebuild the system again. Is there any way to permanently solve this sound card problem. I do NOT want to re-install Windows.
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RichPicker (rich-braden) said : 		#2

I got the sound working again by following the instructions from here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto?highlight=%28hda%29

But now I have locked files on my desktop that I can not Move To Trash, because the Owner in Properties>Permissions is "root"
How can I change the ownership to be able to delete these files from my desktop?

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#3

1) Open a terminal
2) Go inside the Desktop directory (cd Desktop)
3) Check out the file names (ls -l)
4) Delete the unwanted files (sudo rm -ri unwanted.file)

Be careful what you delete (the command I gave you will ask confirmation before it deletes).
In the doubt, come back here and ask.

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RichPicker (rich-braden) said : 		#4

I don't know what I am doing.
Last time I changed something from "root" it caused a
file system check fail, and I had to completely
rebuild the system.

I entered the commands you suggested.
I am getting this:

rm: descend into directory `alsa-driver-1.0.14'? y
rm: remove regular file
`alsa-driver-1.0.14/Makefile.conf.in'? n
rm: descend into directory `alsa-driver-1.0.14/acore'?
b
rm: descend into directory `alsa-driver-1.0.14/misc'?
n
rm: remove symbolic link `alsa-driver-1.0.14/scripts'?

I don't know what I am doing. How can I change
ownership of these files so I can delete them. Sorry,
but this is all very confusing to me. Thank you for
your help.

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RichPicker (rich-braden) said : 		#5

I got better instructions for the chown command:

sudo chown -R rich:rich /home/rich/Desktop/ the file name.

I have it all fixed now. But I would like to ask 2 questions:

1) Why did I have to change the cache size of apt-get.conf ? Is this something I need to purge sometimes like a temp directory? Or have I done something wrong to my machine that caused me to need to increase the cache size. Is there a limit? Will problems happen in the future because I increased the cache size?

2) I have been playing DVDs on this laptop for several months. Why did I need to download more lib files today? I don't understand what could have changed.

Thank you for your help. I appreciate all you are doing.

R-