Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
OK, this is the first time I do it like this, so here is the deal: I
assume you have gotten my terminal log? If not, or not far enough back,
plz contact me asap, I'll be happy to reproduce. I have very limited
terminal skills, so therefore I "experiment" a lot, without taking
proper time to learn a few comments by heart. I just look up the man
pages or do a command --help, without knowing exactly what I'm doing.
Still I think I need to report this, since it doesn't make any sense. I
have lost the ability to sudo apt-get .... any option or file due to a
persistent lock of two dpkg directories. I found an instruction on how
to close down synaptic and so on. I did, but it didn't work, I could not
reboot due to several .torrent downloads in progress. So I did sudo rm
/var/dpkg/lock /var/dpkg/archives/lock. Previously I had tried sudo kill
-9 of everything showing up in: /dev/var $ ps . In it was gedit, man and
wvdial. I am trying to set up 3 Mobile Broandband with Mobile Connect on
Huawei E220 USB Modem. I have been kernel hacking and terminal abusing
in stupid mode = 1 | safe mode = 0 | sudo -i --no-back-up | man --no-
plan for days now. That makes it a bit difficult to trace what went
wrong. I followed some online troubleshooters and If anything I suspect:
sudo nano(or)gedit /etc/conf* and the like (+ save in graphiface)
prerelease install of virtualbox-ose-1.6.2-xxx-ubuntu_x86_deb (or something)
#I had to take a snapshot (on XP config data for IP and such), so I needed USB
support and VMWare is hardware #incompatible.
vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux + hacking in on that
huaweiAbot.ruski or something, shell scripting with gnome-ppp, wvdial, ppp0
and so on
so finally I tried to sudo apt-get build-dep setupserial since I couldn't find
the port number for /dev/ttyUSB0, which has my huawei thingy
but then I got E: could not lock */dpkg*lock - open
so I removed the */lock files
then I needed to install dpkg (I first killed all processes in /dev/var with
-9: didn't help)
oh yeah, I also did a "/dev/var/dpkg $ sudo chmod -cR 777 ." since the Sun vbox
man told me to go read README.debian in ./bridge-utilities but it's actually
called ./bridge-utils, so I did a ls bridge* in */dpkg and afterwards I forgot
I was not in a place I wanted to be, I was somewhere higher up the tree, closer
to the root. While I realized my mistake before I saw the $ prompt again, I was
just happy at the time that I could filler-roller the changelog*gz files since
previous gedit README attempts lead me to an empty page. (yes I know, I'm proud
of me too. So, they need any Windows Server admins or structured programming
teaches in Iraq?) Either way I don't know how to restore the previous
ownership settings for the directory since I don't know what they were prior to
my command.
Anyway, if this all sounds like you don't see the point in trying to
look further in to it, there are two places we can go from here:
1) You give me some diagnostical copy-paste terminal instructions to obtain
more info
2) You give me a simple instruction to reset all system files to default, which
is fine by me, since I don't recall any terminal runs bringing me closer to a
better place anyway. Plus if I'm wrong, I'll just have more fun, since I get to
improve on old themes.
Just don't ask me if I wan't fries with that again please, this is so
'un-ubuntu'. I already asked my mama and she told me she loved me but
she could not help me and then she started crying again.
Kind regards,
Thomas
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 28 03:51:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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gnome-app-install crashed with ImportError in <all modules>(due to missing dpkg
packages and with the impossibilty of using apt-get source, since also
depending on dpkg)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252471
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