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[Old-Polack]

I can report success, finally, I have the GUI back.

But things are not quite right with the packages yet. The Task-kde4 package is missing from many of the repositories, & the ones where I found it, it had some dependency problem. If I try to do an up date synaptic still wants to remove 98 packages & not update a bunch more.

Thanks to all especially Old-Polack

Could you give us a list of the packages it wants to remove, and those it won't upgrade? Maybe we can figure out what's missing from the equation and get you back on track.

[SurferTim]

This is what my "/var/log/kdm.log" said about it:

error setting MTRR (base=0xF4000000 size=0x04000000 type=1) Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)
(EE) Chrome(0): [dri] VIADRIScreenInit failed (libdri.a is too old)

Anyone else checked that log?
I noticed when I tried the apt-get (last resort), a couple of the files that are "kept back" are X11 video driver files. ??

Edit: I tried the "apt-get upgrade" again. I'm backed up, so nothing to lose. I can experiment all I want.
Here is the entire list:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
  addlocale blender dkms-fglrx dupeclean dvdauthor ffmpeg firefox
  fonts-ttf-west_european fuse guile gwenhywfar hplip hplip-common hplip-gui
  hplip-hpijs hplip-libs iso-codes jackit kdeutils4-core lftp libao4
  libavfilter1 libavformats52 libavutil50 libffmpeg52 libfuse2 libguile17
  libgwenhywfar60 libjack0 liblrdf2 libnspr4 libpcap1 libphonon4
  libphononexperimental4 libpostproc51 libqca2 libredland0 libsane-hpaio
  libslv2_9 libsqlite3-devel libsqlite3_0 libswscaler0 libusb1.0-devel
  libusb1.0_0 libwxgtku2.8 libxmms1 lomanager mozilla-thunderbird nmap
  phonon-devel qca2 t1utils testdisk timezone vim-X11 vim-common vim-enhanced
  vim-minimal vlc vlc-plugin-aa vlc-plugin-bonjour vlc-plugin-dv
  vlc-plugin-flac vlc-plugin-fluidsynth vlc-plugin-ggi vlc-plugin-gnutls
  vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-kate vlc-plugin-libass vlc-plugin-libnotify
  vlc-plugin-lirc vlc-plugin-lua vlc-plugin-mod vlc-plugin-mpc
  vlc-plugin-ncurses vlc-plugin-opengl vlc-plugin-projectm vlc-plugin-pulse
  vlc-plugin-schroedinger vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-shout vlc-plugin-speex
  vlc-plugin-svgalib vlc-plugin-theora vlc-plugin-twolame vlc-plugin-upnp
  vlc-plugin-xosd vlc-plugin-zvbi wget wxgtk2.8 x11-driver-video-ati
  x11-driver-video-fglrx xterm
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 93 not upgraded.

So I tried to reinstall one of the packages.
apt-get --reinstall install x11-driver-video-ati

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or that some of the repositories
in use are in an inconsistent state at the moment.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  x11-driver-video-ati: Depends: rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) (<= 4.4.6-1) but it is not installable

All attempts have responded the same way.

[Old-Polack]

This is what my "/var/log/kdm.log" said about it:

error setting MTRR (base=0xF4000000 size=0x04000000 type=1) Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)
(EE) Chrome(0): [dri] VIADRIScreenInit failed (libdri.a is too old)

Anyone else checked that log?
I noticed when I tried the apt-get (last resort), a couple of the files that are "kept back" are X11 video driver files. ??

Edit: I tried the "apt-get upgrade" again. I'm backed up, so nothing to lose. I can experiment all I want.
Here is the entire list:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
  addlocale blender dkms-fglrx dupeclean dvdauthor ffmpeg firefox
  fonts-ttf-west_european fuse guile gwenhywfar hplip hplip-common hplip-gui
  hplip-hpijs hplip-libs iso-codes jackit kdeutils4-core lftp libao4
  libavfilter1 libavformats52 libavutil50 libffmpeg52 libfuse2 libguile17
  libgwenhywfar60 libjack0 liblrdf2 libnspr4 libpcap1 libphonon4
  libphononexperimental4 libpostproc51 libqca2 libredland0 libsane-hpaio
  libslv2_9 libsqlite3-devel libsqlite3_0 libswscaler0 libusb1.0-devel
  libusb1.0_0 libwxgtku2.8 libxmms1 lomanager mozilla-thunderbird nmap
  phonon-devel qca2 t1utils testdisk timezone vim-X11 vim-common vim-enhanced
  vim-minimal vlc vlc-plugin-aa vlc-plugin-bonjour vlc-plugin-dv
  vlc-plugin-flac vlc-plugin-fluidsynth vlc-plugin-ggi vlc-plugin-gnutls
  vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-kate vlc-plugin-libass vlc-plugin-libnotify
  vlc-plugin-lirc vlc-plugin-lua vlc-plugin-mod vlc-plugin-mpc
  vlc-plugin-ncurses vlc-plugin-opengl vlc-plugin-projectm vlc-plugin-pulse
  vlc-plugin-schroedinger vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-shout vlc-plugin-speex
  vlc-plugin-svgalib vlc-plugin-theora vlc-plugin-twolame vlc-plugin-upnp
  vlc-plugin-xosd vlc-plugin-zvbi wget wxgtk2.8 x11-driver-video-ati
  x11-driver-video-fglrx xterm
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 93 not upgraded.

So I tried to reinstall one of the packages.
apt-get --reinstall install x11-driver-video-ati

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or that some of the repositories
in use are in an inconsistent state at the moment.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  x11-driver-video-ati: Depends: rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) (<= 4.4.6-1) but it is not installable

All attempts have responded the same way.

We do not use the apt-get upgrade command; it will bork your system. The correct command is apt-get dist-upgrade. The latter command is the only correct way to upgrade your system with apt-get.

[Texstar]

This is part of your problem being able to install upgraded packages.


http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,96430.0.html

[SurferTim]

This is part of your problem being able to install upgraded packages.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,96430.0.html

Yes, sir. You are correct. On that part, I was a dummy.

However, this is being posted on my now mostly recovered PCLinuxOS box now. 
Only one thing missing. The login (greeting) splash screen is still weird. How do I get that downloaded from the repository?

Here is how I did it:
Login as root at the weird splash screen an at the prompt, type 'synaptic'.
Search for aptupgrade and install it.
exit synaptic and type at the prompt '/usr/bin/aptupgrade' (I think. It may have been 'apt upgrade')
Start synaptic again and finish the upgrades.

My 'upgrade' unistalled kde, so I had to install kde with synaptic. Search for kde and install.

I'm still checking the rest. I had to reset my video and user privileges.

[tren]

Seems my problem was much the same. This link here may help some log in again:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,99448.0.html

 Then when I did get back into my KDE, I discovered some missing stuff. A synopsis of what I've discovered so far is some essential KDE komponents (spelling deliberate) were missing; KWallet, KDM (for login) konsole (a nifty terminal routine) all of which I managed to replace through synaptic simply by designating them and having them load. They are now working.

Less fortunate is my Flightgear is affected, as OpenSceneGraph plugins were removed, and I cannot get them back. At first I tried through synaptic, simply reinstalling FG, and OSG would reinstall along with that. Nope! can't get to OSG plugins via Synaptic, and yes, i have

Code:

rpm http://distro.ibiblio.org/pclinuxos/megagames/apt/ pclinuxos/2010 megagames

added to my sources.list in /etc/apt.

Code:

Error message:
While installing package libgdal1-1.8.1-3pclos2011:
W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/OpenSceneGraph-plugins-3.0.1-1pclos2011.i586.rpm
  404 Not Found

So, I tried through apt-get install. No luck there either. That's what I've found so far .....

[SurferTim]

@tren: The file name has changed on the plugin.
http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/OpenSceneGraph-plugins-3.0.1-2pclos2011.i586.rpm
Maybe you can install it separately.

[tren]

@tren: The file name has changed on the plugin.
http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/OpenSceneGraph-plugins-3.0.1-2pclos2011.i586.rpm
Maybe you can install it separately.

Code:

E: Type 'http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/OpenSceneGraph-plugins-3.0.1-2pclos2011.i586.rpm' is not known in on line 11 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.

putting "rpm" in front of it makes no difference; same error message.

EDIT 2:

apt-get response:

Code:

[apt-get install [url]http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/OpenSceneGraph-plugins-3.0.1-2pclos2011.i586.rpm[/url]
Get:1 [url]http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/OpenSceneGraph-plugins-3.0.1-2pclos2011.i586.rpm[/url] [2898kB]
Fetched 2898kB in 3s (764kB/s)
E: Type '[url]http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/OpenSceneGraph-plugins-3.0.1-2pclos2011.i586.rpm'[/url] is not known in on line 11 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read./code]

Okay, this is really weird: going back to my /etc/apt directory, I found:

  OpenSceneGraph-plugins~.1-2pclos2011.i586.rpm│2898472│Nov 13 02:29

 residing there; does this mean it downloaded the rpm (in its entirety?) but failed to install it?

[Phi1l]

I can report success, finally, I have the GUI back.

But things are not quite right with the packages yet. The Task-kde4 package is missing from many of the repositories, & the ones where I found it, it had some dependency problem. If I try to do an up date synaptic still wants to remove 98 packages & not update a bunch more.

Thanks to all especially Old-Polack

Could you give us a list of the packages it wants to remove, and those it won't upgrade? Maybe we can figure out what's missing from the equation and get you back on track.

Sorry about the delay getting back.

From what I see there are some major inconsistencies between repositories. Most repositories no longer have the task-kde4 meta package.  When you update against one of those it wants to remove 141 packages & hold back 103. All of the packages that it tries to remove are kde4 related

There are a few repositories that do have the task-kde4 package listed. If I update using that repository, it reports back that two missing dependencies: kdebase4-workspace & kdeutil4.


Here is a list of all the packages that were originally removed:
DoAsRoot bluedevil choqok cinelerra digikam ffmpeg imagination k3b kde4-smooth-tasks kdeaccessibility4 kdeadmin4 kdeartwork4-kscreensaver
kdeartwork4-styles kdebase4 kdebase4-core kdebase4-dolphin kdebase4-kdepasswd kdebase4-kdialog kdebase4-kfind kdebase4-konsole kdebase4-kwrite
kdebase4-plasma kdebase4-runtime kdebase4-workspace kdebase4-workspace-core kdeedu4 kdeedu4-blinken kdeedu4-cantor kdeedu4-core kdeedu4-kalgebra
kdeedu4-kalzium kdeedu4-kanagram kdeedu4-kbruch kdeedu4-kgeography kdeedu4-khangman kdeedu4-kig kdeedu4-kiten kdeedu4-klettres kdeedu4-kmplot
kdeedu4-kstars kdeedu4-ktouch kdeedu4-kturtle kdeedu4-kwordquiz kdeedu4-parley kdeedu4-rocs kdeedu4-step kdegames4 kdegames4-bomber
kdegames4-bovo kdegames4-core kdegames4-granatier kdegames4-kajongg kdegames4-kapman kdegames4-katomic kdegames4-kbattleship kdegames4-kblackbox
kdegames4-kblocks kdegames4-kbounce kdegames4-kbreakout kdegames4-kdesnake kdegames4-kdiamond kdegames4-kfourinline kdegames4-kgoldrunner
kdegames4-kigo kdegames4-killbots kdegames4-kiriki kdegames4-kjumpingcube kdegames4-klickety kdegames4-klines kdegames4-kmahjongg kdegames4-kmines
kdegames4-knetwalk kdegames4-kolf kdegames4-kollision kdegames4-konquest kdegames4-kpat kdegames4-kreversi kdegames4-kshisen kdegames4-ksirk
kdegames4-kspaceduel kdegames4-ksquares kdegames4-ksudoku kdegames4-ktron kdegames4-ktuberling kdegames4-kubrick kdegames4-lskat kdegames4-palapeli
kdegraphics4 kdegraphics4-core kdegraphics4-gwenview kdegraphics4-kamera kdegraphics4-kcolorchooser kdegraphics4-kgamma kdegraphics4-kolourpaint
kdegraphics4-kruler kdegraphics4-ksnapshot kdegraphics4-okular kdelibs4 kdemultimedia4 kdemultimedia4-audiocd kdemultimedia4-core kdemultimedia4-dragonplayer
kdemultimedia4-juk kdemultimedia4-kmix kdemultimedia4-kscd kdenetwork4 kdenetwork4-core kdenetwork4-filesharing kdenetwork4-kdnssd kdenetwork4-kget
kdenetwork4-kopete kdenetwork4-kopete-latex kdenetwork4-kppp kdenetwork4-krdc-krfb kdepim4 kdepim4-akonadiconsole kdepim4-akregator
kdepim4-blogilo kdepim4-console kdepim4-core kdepim4-kaddressbook kdepim4-kalarm kdepim4-kjots kdepim4-kleopatra kdepim4-kmail kdepim4-knode
kdepim4-knotes kdepim4-kontact kdepim4-korganizer kdepim4-kresources kdepim4-ktimetracker kdepim4-runtime kdepim4-wizards kdepimlibs4 deplasma-addons
kdesdk4 kdesdk4-cervisia kdesdk4-core kdesdk4-kapptemplate kdesdk4-kate kdesdk4-kcachegrind kdesdk4-kmtrace kdesdk4-kompare kdesdk4-kuiviewer
kdesdk4-lokalize kdesdk4-po2xml kdesdk4-scripts kdesdk4-strigi-analyzer kdesdk4-umbrello kdetoys4 kdeutils4 kdeutils4-ark kdeutils4-filelight
kdeutils4-kcalc kdeutils4-kcharselect kdeutils4-kdf kdeutils4-kfloppy kdeutils4-kgpg kdeutils4-kremotecontrol kdeutils4-ktimer kdeutils4-kwallet
kdeutils4-superkaramba kdeutils4-sweeper kdm kffmpegthumbnailer kipi-plugins ktorrent kwebkitpart libimlib2_1 libimlib2_1-filters
libimlib2_1-loaders libkdeeduui4 libktorrent libungif4 marble marble-common mozplugger mplayer mplayerplugin plasma-applet-yawp polkit-kde-agent-1
python-kde4 smb4k task-kde4 task-multimedia wbar


I hope this helps,

Phil

[Phi1l]

I hate to have to bring up this old thread again, but I still can not update without Synaptic trying to uninstall KDE4.  Any suggestions, ... is there a way to fix this manually, or will I have to just blow the while installation away & start over?

I can report success, finally, I have the GUI back.

But things are not quite right with the packages yet. The Task-kde4 package is missing from many of the repositories, & the ones where I found it, it had some dependency problem. If I try to do an up date synaptic still wants to remove 98 packages & not update a bunch more.

Thanks to all especially Old-Polack

Could you give us a list of the packages it wants to remove, and those it won't upgrade? Maybe we can figure out what's missing from the equation and get you back on track.

Sorry about the delay getting back.

From what I see there are some major inconsistencies between repositories. Most repositories no longer have the task-kde4 meta package.  When you update against one of those it wants to remove 141 packages & hold back 103. All of the packages that it tries to remove are kde4 related

There are a few repositories that do have the task-kde4 package listed. If I update using that repository, it reports back that two missing dependencies: kdebase4-workspace & kdeutil4.


Here is a list of all the packages that were originally removed:
DoAsRoot bluedevil choqok cinelerra digikam ffmpeg imagination k3b kde4-smooth-tasks kdeaccessibility4 kdeadmin4 kdeartwork4-kscreensaver
kdeartwork4-styles kdebase4 kdebase4-core kdebase4-dolphin kdebase4-kdepasswd kdebase4-kdialog kdebase4-kfind kdebase4-konsole kdebase4-kwrite
kdebase4-plasma kdebase4-runtime kdebase4-workspace kdebase4-workspace-core kdeedu4 kdeedu4-blinken kdeedu4-cantor kdeedu4-core kdeedu4-kalgebra
kdeedu4-kalzium kdeedu4-kanagram kdeedu4-kbruch kdeedu4-kgeography kdeedu4-khangman kdeedu4-kig kdeedu4-kiten kdeedu4-klettres kdeedu4-kmplot
kdeedu4-kstars kdeedu4-ktouch kdeedu4-kturtle kdeedu4-kwordquiz kdeedu4-parley kdeedu4-rocs kdeedu4-step kdegames4 kdegames4-bomber
kdegames4-bovo kdegames4-core kdegames4-granatier kdegames4-kajongg kdegames4-kapman kdegames4-katomic kdegames4-kbattleship kdegames4-kblackbox
kdegames4-kblocks kdegames4-kbounce kdegames4-kbreakout kdegames4-kdesnake kdegames4-kdiamond kdegames4-kfourinline kdegames4-kgoldrunner
kdegames4-kigo kdegames4-killbots kdegames4-kiriki kdegames4-kjumpingcube kdegames4-klickety kdegames4-klines kdegames4-kmahjongg kdegames4-kmines
kdegames4-knetwalk kdegames4-kolf kdegames4-kollision kdegames4-konquest kdegames4-kpat kdegames4-kreversi kdegames4-kshisen kdegames4-ksirk
kdegames4-kspaceduel kdegames4-ksquares kdegames4-ksudoku kdegames4-ktron kdegames4-ktuberling kdegames4-kubrick kdegames4-lskat kdegames4-palapeli
kdegraphics4 kdegraphics4-core kdegraphics4-gwenview kdegraphics4-kamera kdegraphics4-kcolorchooser kdegraphics4-kgamma kdegraphics4-kolourpaint
kdegraphics4-kruler kdegraphics4-ksnapshot kdegraphics4-okular kdelibs4 kdemultimedia4 kdemultimedia4-audiocd kdemultimedia4-core kdemultimedia4-dragonplayer
kdemultimedia4-juk kdemultimedia4-kmix kdemultimedia4-kscd kdenetwork4 kdenetwork4-core kdenetwork4-filesharing kdenetwork4-kdnssd kdenetwork4-kget
kdenetwork4-kopete kdenetwork4-kopete-latex kdenetwork4-kppp kdenetwork4-krdc-krfb kdepim4 kdepim4-akonadiconsole kdepim4-akregator
kdepim4-blogilo kdepim4-console kdepim4-core kdepim4-kaddressbook kdepim4-kalarm kdepim4-kjots kdepim4-kleopatra kdepim4-kmail kdepim4-knode
kdepim4-knotes kdepim4-kontact kdepim4-korganizer kdepim4-kresources kdepim4-ktimetracker kdepim4-runtime kdepim4-wizards kdepimlibs4 deplasma-addons
kdesdk4 kdesdk4-cervisia kdesdk4-core kdesdk4-kapptemplate kdesdk4-kate kdesdk4-kcachegrind kdesdk4-kmtrace kdesdk4-kompare kdesdk4-kuiviewer
kdesdk4-lokalize kdesdk4-po2xml kdesdk4-scripts kdesdk4-strigi-analyzer kdesdk4-umbrello kdetoys4 kdeutils4 kdeutils4-ark kdeutils4-filelight
kdeutils4-kcalc kdeutils4-kcharselect kdeutils4-kdf kdeutils4-kfloppy kdeutils4-kgpg kdeutils4-kremotecontrol kdeutils4-ktimer kdeutils4-kwallet
kdeutils4-superkaramba kdeutils4-sweeper kdm kffmpegthumbnailer kipi-plugins ktorrent kwebkitpart libimlib2_1 libimlib2_1-filters
libimlib2_1-loaders libkdeeduui4 libktorrent libungif4 marble marble-common mozplugger mplayer mplayerplugin plasma-applet-yawp polkit-kde-agent-1
python-kde4 smb4k task-kde4 task-multimedia wbar


I hope this helps,

Phil

[Old-Polack]

I hate to have to bring up this old thread again, but I still can not update without Synaptic trying to uninstall KDE4.  Any suggestions, ... is there a way to fix this manually, or will I have to just blow the while installation away & start over?

You will have to reinstall from the newest 2011.9 .iso image.