At bootup garbage on screen it says broken dependables ?

Asked by ALF WATERS

Binary package hint: yelp

UBUNTU 9.10 KARMIC KOALA OCT-09

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 18 02:34:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1252): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1252): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1286): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

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ALF WATERS (alfred26) said :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said :
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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://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said :
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Please verify that sources.list is ok.
To compare you may generate a 'clean' one from there.
http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Refer to this in order to repair package manager via CLI. In case please post error messages.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

Make sure there is enough disk space.
CLI e.g.
df -h
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoverLostDiskSpace

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