Hi all, Sorry in advance because this is going to be a long post as had some strange experience and want to share the same with everybody.
I had errors in my filesystem today. Hence put up a live CD and ran fsck on that partition. The filesystem is an ext3 system. $ sudo fsck -y /dev/sdb5 The partition is where my / partition lies. I have Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x48254824 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 18 144553+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 19 19457 156143767+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 19 2450 19535008+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 2451 2574 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb7 2575 19457 135612666 83 Linux /dev/sdb7 is my /home partition. It took some time and removed some stuff but was able to log in. For a long time the update-manager showed Error: BrokenCount > 0 Looked at the documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto and tried $ sudo apt-get check and got the following information. 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: gnome-app-install: Depends: but it is not installed Depends: but it is not installed onboard: Depends: but it is not installed penguintv: Depends: but it is not installed python-gnome2: Depends: but it is not installed update-manager: Depends: but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. Then tried both synaptic as well as the CLI and got the following output :- ~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: Suggested packages: python-gconf-dbg python-gnome2-extras-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/99.9kB of archives. After this operation, 406kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 227, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 48, in main debs = apt_listchanges.read_apt_pipeline(config) File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/apt_listchanges.py", line 64, in read_apt_pipeline (pkgname, oldversion, compare, newversion, filename) = pkgline.split() ValueError: need more than 4 values to unpack (Reading database ... 127778 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python-gconf 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 (using .../_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python-gconf ... Preparing to replace python-gtkhtml2 2.19.1-0ubuntu11 (using .../_2.19.1-0ubuntu11_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python-gtkhtml2 ... Processing triggers for python-support ... Package listed more than once, only processing once. dpkg: error processing (--configure): no package named `' is installed, cannot configure Errors were encountered while processing: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Even doing an update/safe-upgrade at that point in time didn't resolve the issue. I did do an aptitude autoclean so if there's any left-over stuff it would get removed. Tried again and again but it wouldn't get configured. 12 hours later and another round of update and upgrades and this time it configures it without an issue. Now I'm preplexed and have few questions on few counts. a. Was the procedure I tried correct or not? b. Whenever I run an fsck from the CD wouldn't it be nice if it would put up the log of the same at the partition which one just fscked. c. Why it didn't work the first time around but worked later. In-between there hasn't been any shutdown or anything. d. If I wanted to file a bug-report on this behavior where or which package/packages should I file bugs under? Feel free to comment,suggest whatever you feel. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
