Re: X not working, can't apt-get upgrade, and other problems (fwd)
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 18:33:23 -0400, Rebecca K. Lambert wrote:
> A few days ago, X stopped working correctly on my laptop. Normally, it
> automatically goes to a graphical login, but it started just going to a
> prompt. I logged in as root and ran kdm, and it gave me the error "apm:
> disabled upon user request."
>
> My friend suggested that I upgrade, but it stopped working because of
> errors with ntpdate. Now I still can't upgrade, but I'm getting different
> errors than I was last night: now I get 'No such file' errors for a few
> things and it also says "11 not upgraded" and "823 not fully installed or
> removed".
>
> Then I tried apt-get remove ntpdate and got the error:
> Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it
> before attempting a removal.
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
> what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
> Aborted
>
> And so then I tried apt-get install --reinstall ntpdate and got
> Preparing to replace ntpdate ...
> invoke-rc.d: initscript ntpdate, action "stop" failed.
> dpkg: warning- old pre-removal script returned error exit status 6
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ntpdate_1%... .deb
> (--unpack):
> there is no script in the new versio of the package - giving up
> invoke-rc.d: initscript ntpdate, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ntpdate_...i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> While I haven't been able to use X, I have tried to use ctrl-alt-F*, but
> whenever I do that, my machine seems to stop receiving keyboard input
> entirely.
I think the first thing to do is to remove/fix the ntpdate package,
since it is blocking the rest of the upgrades. Which version of ntpdate
is apt trying to remove? ("apt-cache policy ntpdate")
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Regards,
Florian
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