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natty narwhal Ubuntu-desktop broken package

Asked by poonforce

ubuntu-desktop package was autoremoved when i run the command apt-get autoremove.
now i get an error "no screen found" while booting up.
when i try to install ubuntu-desktop it says broken package, depends on language-selector.
Then i tried to install language-selector, but it says depends on language-selector-common, installed (=0.13) but 0.16 is required

Then i tried to install language-selector-common, it says the newest version is already installed.
Please help.

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#1

when i run apt-get upgrade, it doesnt show any broken or held back packages.
But when i try to install ubuntu-desktop it gives error broken package, depends on language-selector and so on.

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PeterPall (peterpall) said : 		#2

"No screen found looks like" you have problems with X-windows.
You can try a

sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get install xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all;sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Perhaps you'll need a
sudo apt-get install gnome
too.

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#3

No screen found error is solved when i installed package "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau".
now i m able to log in.
But instead of ubuntu unity it logs in ubuntu classic gnome.
any help.

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#4

No screen found error is solved when i installed package "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau".
now i m able to log in.
But instead of ubuntu unity it logs in ubuntu classic gnome.
any help.

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#5

Thanks PeterPall, that solved my question.

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#6

unity not running in desktop edition

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#7

When i run - sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

But When i run this command

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop unity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
unity is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ubuntu-desktop : Depends: language-selector but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#8

There is a known problem marked as critical bug 711409

As far as I know Maverick contains xserver 1.9, and Natty will include xserver 1.10, and the currently available drivers from Nvidia do not correctly work with xserver 1.10.

I assume you are hitting this bug.

What you have not yet told, is the release of Ubuntu that you are currently running. Did this problem show up when you tried to upgrade from Maverick to Natty, or did you try to install a natty package on a maverick system manually, or...

Where do your software source point to - maverick or natty? Have you reloaded the repository information before trying the install and upgrade commands? As far as I know there is currently a lot of development done on natty, with up to three new versions of language-selecter on a single day.

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#9

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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poonforce (poonforce) said : 		#10

i just installed natty from live CD.
but this problem is solved with upgrade.
thanks for reply.