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"Install problem!" message after 10.04 update

Asked by Tom Kastner

Running 10.04 LTS on a ThinkPad T61. After latest update which included kernel 2.6.32-35 I get the message "Install problem! The configuration defaults for GNOME power manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator." I can't get beyond the log in. After the prior update I got a message about the filesystem root having only 433MB disk space remaining. I don't have any idea what those messages mean and there's nothing in them that offers a solution. I have not installed anything in the GNOME power manager or filesystem root. How can I get logged in? I don't have a computer administrator.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Your user is a member of the admin group and so can use sudo and gksudo, there is no single admin user and the root account is disabled by default.

If you hold shift at boot and select recovery mode, then select root, you can run:

apt-get clean; reboot

This may free up space and may alllow a boot

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Tom Kastner (linty) said : 		#2

Selecting root took some head scratching but after that it did the trick. I'm afraid it will happen again when I run out of space in "filesystem root".

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dwarf (dpfields) said : 		#3

This just happened to me to and it was scary as hell! I have my dissertation research on my netbook! I am running 10.04 on a Dell Mini 9. After the 2.6.32-35 upgrade yesterday my sound stopped working (this happened after the last Kernel upgrade as well). So I went to fix it today by following the steps on:

 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure

I ran the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa; sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-iquik/alsa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils gdm ubuntu-desktop linux-image-`uname -r` linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r) libasound2; sudo apt-get --reinstall install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils gdm ubuntu-desktop linux-image-`uname -r` linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r) libasound2; killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.pulse*; sudo usermod -aG `cat /etc/group | grep -e '^pulse:' -e '^audio:' -e '^pulse-access:' -e '^pulse-rt:' -e '^video:' | awk -F: '{print $1}' | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's:,$::g'` `whoami`

and then

cd; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get -y install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext xmlto libasound2-dev linux-headers-`uname -r` libncursesw5-dev; wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.24.tar.bz2; tar jxvf ./alsa-driver-1.0.24.tar.bz2; rm ./alsa-driver-1.0.24.tar.bz2; cd ./alsa-driver-1.0.24; sudo ./configure; sudo make; sudo make install; killall pulseaudio; cd; rm -r ~/.pulse*; rm ./alsa-driver-1.0.24; sudo usermod -aG `cat /etc/group | grep -e '^pulse:' -e '^audio:' -e '^pulse-access:' -e '^pulse-rt:' -e '^video:' | awk -F: '{print $1}' | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's:,$::g'` `whoami`

In the middle of this I also installed the latest updates through the update manager. When the update finished I got a warning message that I was down to around 300MB of free space left. This morning I had 1 GB. (I only have an 8 GB hard drive on this netbook.)

Do you have any idea how I lost so much hard drive space so quickly and how I can get it back? Also is this likely to happen again?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Then back up the work!!!!!!

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dwarf (dpfields) said : 		#5

I do. I only would have lost about seven days of note taking in Zotero and one grant application. It would not have been a disaster, but it was still scary. More than anything else my faith in Ubuntu was shaken somewhat. Does any one have any idea why I lost so much hard drive space and what might be taking it up?