Back in my "office" ... when I attempted to start Synaptic Package Manager, a
popup appeared, saying that an error occurred, and, after stating that E:
dpkg was interrupted, demanded that I "run [sudo] dpkg --configure -a to
correct the problem."
The popup also said "E: _cache->open() failed, please report."
Using copy & paste into Terminal and adding sudo, I was greeted with a brief
flurry of acivity ... poof ... no Terminal.
When I close the popup, Synaptic Package Manager goes down with it.
Afterwards, Terminal crashed when I attempted dmesg requests. I rebooted, ran
[sudo] dpkg --configure -a again, watched Terminal go poof again, and then
restarted terminal, followed by dmesg | tail, which produced what looks like
a memory dump:
[QUOTE]
dmesg | tail
[ 52.724371] 01 12 01 03 0e 2f 1e 78 2a 78 f1 a6 55 48 9b 66
[ 52.724376] 22 50 54 bf ef 80 b3 00 01 80 81 40 71 4f 01 01
[ 52.724382] 01 01 01 01 01 01 7c 5e 90 a0 60 1a 1e 40 30 40
[ 52.724387] 36 00 da 28 11 00 00 1a 00 00 00 fd 00 38 4b 1e
[ 52.724393] 51 1e 00 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 fc 00 53
[ 52.724398] 79 dc 63 9b 61 73 74 65 72 0a 20 20 00 00 00 ff
[ 52.724403] 00 48 39 9e 51 43 30 32 32 36 31 0a 20 20 00 55
[ 54.406428] audit_printk_skb: 27 callbacks suppressed
[ 54.406437] type=1400 audit(1507724080.898:21): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_replace" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" pid=1974 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 54.406457] type=1400 audit(1507724080.898:22): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_replace" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
pid=1974 comm="apparmor_parser"
[/QUOTE]
... which seems irrelevant to the present issue. Is there a more useful form
of dmesg ?
Thanks,
George Langford
