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Ubuntu 8.04 install failed, but update more or less completed; sound issues

Asked by Luke E.A. Lockhart

I ran the updater and I was told that the update failed and that my system might be unusable after the package-manager package wouldn't update. I haven't tried using that yet, but the system thinks it's running 8.04 and the only problem so far is the sound; it's highly distorted. I found a report of the sound issue from alpha testing; but I can't see anything about this installation issue.

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Luke E.A. Lockhart (lockhartl) said : 		#1

Also, I have discovered that the package manager is indeed broken.

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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) said : 		#2

Try playing around with alsamixer.
To install:
sudo apt-get install alsamixer
To run:
alsamixer

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Luke E.A. Lockhart (lockhartl) said : 		#3

The package system is broken... so I can't.

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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) said : 		#4

What do you mean the package system is broken?
Please provide any error messages you receive, and where you received them.

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