Problems with gdl pplot installation and now everything seems a bit wonky
Hi All,
I have been trying to install gdl and plplot on my ubuntu from source - because I couldnt seem to find them in the software centre. Unfortunately, I have stuffed up the configuration and now the software centre and a range of applications wont start.
The errors started when I tried to install the plplot xwin libararies and then I started getting all sorts of errors.
I know I was supposed to remove the PPA repositorities before running the diagnostics below. But by this stage the Software centre and software updater stopped working.
Any support or guidance would be appreciated on how I can fix the mess?
Cheers
Andrew
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
with apt.Cache() as cache:
File "/usr/lib/
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File "/usr/lib/
self._cache = apt_pkg.
SystemError: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
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cat: /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Setting up ifupdown (0.7.54ubuntu1) ...
Re-enabling /etc/init.
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up cups-browsed (1.0.76-1) ...
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
/usr/sbin/
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups-browsed, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package cups-browsed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up procps (1:3.3.9-1ubuntu8) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service procps
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package procps (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for udev:
udev depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package udev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving triggers unprocessed
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of resolvconf:
resolvconf depends on ifupdown (>= 0.7.5); however:
Package ifupdown is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package resolvconf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups:
cups depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-daemon:
cups-daemon depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-daemon (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-core-drivers:
cups-core-drivers depends on cups-daemon (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-core-drivers (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ifupdown
cups-browsed
procps
udev
resolvconf
cups
cups-daemon
cups-core-drivers
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up ifupdown (0.7.54ubuntu1) ...
Re-enabling /etc/init.
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up cups-browsed (1.0.76-1) ...
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
/usr/sbin/
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups-browsed, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package cups-browsed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up procps (1:3.3.9-1ubuntu8) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service procps
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package procps (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
/bin/df: '/s3': Transport endpoint is not connected
cups-daemon depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-daemon (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of resolvconf:
resolvconf depends on ifupdown (>= 0.7.5); however:
Package ifupdown is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package resolvconf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-core-drivers:
cups-core-drivers depends on cups-daemon (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-core-drivers (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups:
cups depends on cups-core-drivers (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-core-drivers is not configured yet.
cups depends on cups-daemNo apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
cups depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up ifupdown (0.7.54ubuntu1) ...
Re-enabling /etc/init.
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up cups-browsed (1.0.76-1) ...
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
/usr/sbin/
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups-browsed, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package cups-browsed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up procps (1:3.3.9-1ubuntu8) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service procps
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package procps (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-daemon:
cups-daemon depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-daemon (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of resolvconf:
resolvconf depends on ifupdown (>= 0.7.5); however:
Package ifupdown is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package resolvconf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-core-drivers:
cups-core-drivers depends on cups-daemon (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-core-drivers (--configure):No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
cups depends on cups-core-drivers (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-core-drivers is not configured yet.
cups depends on cups-daemon (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
cups depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
ifupdown
cups-browsed
procps
cups-daemon
resolvconf
cups-core-drivers
cups
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up ifupdown (0.7.54ubuntu1) ...
Re-enabling /etc/init.
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up cups-browsed (1.0.76-1) ...
insserv: warning: script 'friendly-recovery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `friendly-recovery'
/usr/sbin/
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups-browsed, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package cups-browsed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up procps (1:3.3.9-1ubuntu8) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service procps
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: error processing package procps (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-daemon:
cups-daemon depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-daemon (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of resolvconf:
resolvconf depends on ifupdown (>= 0.7.5); however:
Package ifupdown is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package resolvconf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups-core-drivers:
cups-core-drivers depends on cups-daemon (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups-core-drivers (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cups:
cups depends on cups-core-drivers (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-core-drivers is not configured yet.
cups depends on cups-daemon (>= 2.1.0-4ubuntu3); however:
Package cups-daemon is not configured yet.
cups depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package cups (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ifupdown
cups-browsed
procps
cups-daemon
resolvconf
cups-core-drivers
cups
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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The following packages have been unpacked but not yet configured.
They must be configured using dpkg --configure or the configure
menu option in dselect for them to work:
cups Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD/driver support, web
cups-core-drivers Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD-less printing
resolvconf name server information handler
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
cups-browsed OpenPrinting CUPS Filters - cups-browsed
cups-daemon Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - daemon
ifupdown high level tools to configure network interfaces
procps /proc file system utilities
The following packages have been triggered, but the trigger processing
has not yet been done. Trigger processing can be requested using
dselect or dpkg --configure --pending (or dpkg --triggers-only):
udev /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
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