Re: problems reinstalling nvidia cards after crash of Xorg.conf compiz edit forced OS reinstall...
you have a incomplete installation of exim, that needs to be corrected...
On 4/24/08, Michael Fothergill <mikef20000@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Debianists,
>
> I successfully installed and configured my nvidia card on my hp laptop. Everything was going well until I got too
> ambitious and tried to install compiz. I edited the xorg.conf file to include the instructions to get compiz working
> but when I rebooted X11 booted up gnome etc (but not compiz for some reason) and when I opened a root
> terminal to try to edit the xorg.conf file to look for clues as to why the compiz didn't start the root terminal
> turned completely blank and nothing I typed as commands appeared in the terminal window. I rebooted
> many times but could not abolish this problem. I tried to stop xorg from working and hoped to able to get emacs
> to work with no window manager and/or gdm working but I could not figure out how to do this. So I reinstalled
> the entire OS. I then tried to reinstall the nvidia cards again. I thought this would be easy but it was not
> I have used the same strategy as I did in the previous successful attempt but this failed.
>
> Somehow apt can't find stuff in the same repositories that it could do a few days ago. I am puzzled as to why
> this is the case.
>
>
> I would appreciate people's comments on this.
>
> Here is my latest output:
>
> debian:/etc/apt# apt-get update
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52] lenny Release.gpg
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52] lenny Release.gpg
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52] lenny Release.gpg
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52] lenny Release.gpg
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny Release.gpg
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52] lenny Release
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52] lenny Release
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52] lenny Release
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52] lenny Release
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny Release
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-2 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-3 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-4 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-5 20080407-11:52] lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid Release.gpg
> Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid Release
> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
> Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/main Sources/DiffIndex
> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid Release.gpg
> Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid/nonfree Translation-en_GB
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing Release.gpg
> Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Translation-en_GB
> Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_GB
> Ign http://http.us.debian.org testing/nonfree Translation-en_GB
> Get: 1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org sid/contrib Sources/DiffIndex [2023B]
> Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
> Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid Release
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing Release
> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources
> Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Get: 2 http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages/DiffIndex [2023B]
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
> Fetched 4046B in 1s (2349B/s)
> W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release Unable to find expected entry nonfree/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
>
> W: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release Unable to find expected entry nonfree/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
>
> W: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release Unable to find expected entry nonfree/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
>
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
> debian:/etc/apt# m-a update
>
> Updated infos about 85 packages
> debian:/etc/apt# m-a prepare
> Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-amd64
> Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-amd64/build
> apt-get install build-essential
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> build-essential is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 145 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
> Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
> invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> exim4-daemon-light
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Done!
> debian:/etc/apt# m-a auto-install nvidia
>
> Updated infos about 1 packages
> Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-1-amd64
> Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.24-1-amd64/build
> apt-get install build-essential
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> build-essential is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 145 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
> Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
> invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> exim4-daemon-light
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Done!
> download
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package nvidia-kernel-source is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package nvidia-kernel-source has no installation candidate
>
> Updated infos about 1 packages
> debian:/etc/apt#
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Fothergill
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