"updates" don't work; "E:_cache->open()failed"
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
It says to Manually run 'dpkg--configure-a' and I can't get that to go.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 31 10:39:53 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
Package: gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-26-generic i686
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#2 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https:/
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#3 |
Thanks for your response - I really don't know much about computers. Thanks for guiding me to the correct place.
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#4 |
Can you open a terminal and give the output of:
sudo dpkg --configure -a; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
Thanks
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#5 |
Reading package lists... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
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#6 |
can you give the output of:
file /var/lib/
Thanks
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#7 |
It's getting more confusing...
elaine@freegeek:~$
elaine@freegeek:~$ file
Usage: file [-bcikLhnNrsvz0] [-e test] [-f namefile] [-F separator] [-m magicfiles] file...
file -C -m magicfiles
Try `file --help' for more information.
elaine@freegeek:~$ /var/lib/
bash: /var/lib/
Thanks
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#8 |
No, the command is ALL one:
file /var/lib/
Is the command, copy the whole command line
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#9 |
Like this?
elaine@freegeek:~$ file /var/lib/
/var/lib/
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#10 |
Perfect:
can you give the output of:
gedit /var/lib/
Thanks (same deal as before with the copying)
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#11 |
The answer is a huge file with about 12 packages. Do you want that?
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#13 |
Package: miro-data
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 4432
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: miro
Version: 2.5.1-0pcf1
Filename: hardy/miro-
Size: 1565260
MD5sum: 5eee61993949356
SHA1: bbd133c0e234ba3
SHA256: f1b5e2562d1a77b
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator data files
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8880
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.2-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2249678
MD5sum: 595eaafc1425596
SHA1: 942baf693c94106
SHA256: f9e9426e1cd8b7a
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro-data
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 4872
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: miro
Version: 2.5.4-0pcf1
Filename: hardy/miro-
Size: 1726920
MD5sum: 89eda33e5c527fa
SHA1: 5d6fab9299f3de2
SHA256: d8eacb53a4cad85
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator data files
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8556
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.5.1-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2221182
MD5sum: 9beb32ea975f1ce
SHA1: ff7339deea792c8
SHA256: de34547211e71bb
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8944
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.3-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2266008
MD5sum: 887c9910861c861
SHA1: 777a6dd0d38c16e
SHA256: 22bbb2aa1acf5f0
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8600
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.5.4-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2241126
MD5sum: bef3639e782ebb7
SHA1: 56f493c60a302e9
SHA256: 50d1f25591db93d
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8928
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.4-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2277786
MD5sum: e63ef5523a5598e
SHA1: 25ef8f0a4b488d1
SHA256: a84ab7cc7cf03b8
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8556
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.5.2-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2221596
MD5sum: a4ec49e46ba056c
SHA1: d6fa89889c1bdd8
SHA256: 346eff193e3ab9f
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8612
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.5.3-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2235988
MD5sum: 7b8f1ba9e95e3fc
SHA1: 691adad08c4408d
SHA256: 27680d875602208
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 8880
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.1-0pcf1
Depends: gstreamer0.
Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg
Suggests: gstreamer0.
Filename: hardy/miro_
Size: 2249166
MD5sum: 49308e5b17ca86f
SHA1: 554981d248ffe32
SHA256: 84a814616348c68
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro-data
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 4772
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: miro
Version: 2.5.3-0pcf1
Filename: hardy/miro-
Size: 1660494
MD5sum: 976877bec8b5740
SHA1: 4adf0dbd58738d6
SHA256: 5042f8b3b635de4
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator data files
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
Package: miro-data
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 4432
Maintainer: Will Kahn-Greene <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: miro
Version: 2.5.2-0pcf1
Filename: hardy/miro-
Size: 1565666
MD5sum: 5ea001f16cca760
SHA1: 56706a2d3af9c45
SHA256: 142740ee8743a01
Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator data files
Miro is a platform for Internet television and video.
It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds (including
podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds).
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#14 |
ok good info so far, try this:
sudo mv /var/lib/
Any better?
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#15 |
This looks really promising... I say "yes" , right?
elaine@freegeek:~$ ~/; sudo apt-get -f install; sudo dpkg --configure -a; sudo apt-get
bash: /home/elaine/: is a directory
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libkdegames1 libdns35
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre
Suggested packages:
sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-plugin ia32-sun-
Recommended packages:
gsfonts-x11
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sun-java6-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
sun-java6-jre
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 90 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/35.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 101MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
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#16 |
looks good to me dude, yes away
You can also run:
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
This will remove the unneeded packages you have and save space
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#17 |
Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!!! The updates were completed and everything looks good. Thanks so much for your patience and step by step instructions! You're a genius!
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#18 |
You can delete the file in the home folder if you wish. You may need sudo to delete it.