[SOLVED] no GUI after update?

[claydoh]

Re: no GUI after update?

sorry, stop KDM first, i forgot that part
[me=claydoh]yawns and is getting sleepy [/me]

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

waiting for X server to shut down ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log


sheesh! you'd think I'd asked it to make me some tea...

should I try xterm?

Ooh! I installed icewm and managed to get that up and running although I did get a warning about it not being able to find "mutt" and starting "/bin/bash" instead. And it thinks I should check my profile settings. (*because I pressed the little envelope icon, I've been told.)

Now I have a button for konqueror and can give my roommate's laptop back...

[claydoh]

Re: no GUI after update?

The only thing I can suggest to try is to see if there is something wrong/missing/broken/corrupted in your ~/.kde directory. Something must be, as you can use icewm

To check this, you will need to create a new user account - you can do this in System Settings. Reboot, and try logging into that new account to see if that is successful.

I will be at work until about midnight (yup, that's nearly 14 hours away ), so I will not be able to reply in a timely manner, so hopefully others can chime in an offer their experiences.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

ok, managed to figure out how to create a new user (yay! I'll be an uber-l33t hax0r yet!) but...

the bad news is that user "testing" didn't have any luck in kde either. Testing did manage to generate a new error code in the evil white dialog box:

kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. the error code is 3.

I checked online and one of the suggestions was lack of memory so I totally ran "free -m" and came up with the following:

total used free
memory 1507 280 1226
+/- 79 1428
swap 2902 2902


I'm not 100% on what that means but, if I had to guess, I would say I have plenty of space. I hope this helps narrow down the problem.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

This may (or may not, I dunno) be relevant; I don't have sound on my computer. Yes, the speakers are plugged in. Yes, I also have speakers in the monitor (although I'm not sure that I've ever used them)

I really appreciate how helpful this community has been while I'm learning this operating system beyond just pointing and clicking.

[claydoh]

Re: no GUI after update?

Hmmm, sorry this is taking so long, drilling down to the bottom

Maybe you are out of drive space on your root directory? If you can, run dolphin to look at your /var/log directory and see if there are any huge log files there. Or right-click on the folder and see how much drive space is left.

Or if you can't run dolphin, open xterm and enter this:

ls -lh /var/log

and paste the results

I vaguely remember somewhere that I had a problem similar to this in the recent past, but can't remember which version I was runnning, or when. I can't find any corroborating info searching for anything like this. Ususally the 'error code 3' message you get is caused by broken permissions on your /home folder. But if the /var/ folder is full, KDE can't open log files, or its cache folders. I did have some huge log files (gb in size) hogging the drive. Seeing as icewm runs fine (doesn't need such caches) I am thinking this is a possible culprit.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ ls -lh /var/log
total 9.6M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-10-08 17:10 apparmor
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2010-10-17 16:04 apt
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 16K 2010-10-19 10:17 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 52K 2010-10-17 15:41 auth.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2.3K 2010-10-10 07:35 auth.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2.4K 2010-10-03 07:35 auth.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2.2K 2010-09-26 07:35 auth.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 31 2008-10-29 14:59 boot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.3K 2010-10-18 23:58 boot.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36K 2008-10-29 15:00 bootstrap.log
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 2.7K 2010-10-19 00:00 btmp
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 0 2010-09-01 07:55 btmp.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2010-10-16 07:56 ConsoleKit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2010-10-17 16:04 cups
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 66K 2010-10-19 10:51 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1.6M 2010-10-17 15:40 daemon.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 62K 2010-10-10 07:40 daemon.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 64K 2010-10-03 07:42 daemon.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 61K 2010-09-26 07:49 daemon.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 8.7K 2009-05-03 21:02 daemon.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 4.1K 2009-04-26 20:53 daemon.log.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 40K 2010-10-18 23:58 debug
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 260K 2010-10-17 15:40 debug.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3.1K 2010-10-08 13:54 debug.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3.2K 2010-09-30 12:57 debug.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 760 2010-09-26 05:37 debug.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 5.4K 2009-04-05 07:40 debug.6.gz
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2010-10-16 10:27 dist-upgrade
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 79K 2010-10-18 23:58 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 79K 2010-10-18 09:03 dmesg.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14K 2010-10-17 18:05 dmesg.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 15K 2010-10-17 15:40 dmesg.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 15K 2010-10-16 21:54 dmesg.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14K 2010-10-16 21:16 dmesg.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6K 2010-10-17 19:58 dpkg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M 2010-10-16 19:56 dpkg.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 50K 2008-11-21 08:50 dpkg.log.10.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629 2010-04-26 21:45 dpkg.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81K 2010-04-25 22:06 dpkg.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 14K 2010-01-26 19:39 dpkg.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 69K 2009-05-28 16:17 dpkg.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.5K 2009-04-19 07:57 dpkg.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.6K 2009-03-24 15:05 dpkg.log.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1.9K 2009-03-08 22:26 dpkg.log.8.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 31K 2009-02-27 17:16 dpkg.log.9.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24K 2010-10-18 09:02 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.2K 2010-10-16 10:27 fontconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-10-29 14:59 fsck
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-11-21 08:51 installer
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-10-19 07:46 kdm.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.8K 2010-10-19 07:46 kdm.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2010-10-18 07:47 kdm.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570 2010-02-20 07:39 kdm.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 571 2010-02-17 08:04 kdm.log.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K 2009-04-15 06:08 kdm.log.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 387K 2010-10-19 00:01 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2.0M 2010-10-17 15:40 kern.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 14K 2010-10-09 18:02 kern.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 13K 2010-10-01 03:00 kern.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1.6K 2010-09-26 05:37 kern.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 22K 2009-03-19 20:32 kern.log.6.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 286K 2010-10-19 00:00 lastlog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 165 2010-10-17 18:05 lpr.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3.5K 2010-10-16 09:40 lpr.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 327 2010-10-15 09:54 lpr.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 325 2010-10-08 13:53 lpr.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 325 2010-09-26 11:52 lpr.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 2008-10-29 15:00 mail.err
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 2008-10-29 15:00 mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 2008-10-29 15:00 mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 2008-10-29 15:00 mail.warn
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 310K 2010-10-19 07:46 messages
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1.6M 2010-10-17 16:04 messages.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 11K 2010-10-10 07:41 messages.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 11K 2010-10-03 07:42 messages.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 947 2010-09-26 07:50 messages.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 21K 2009-03-23 08:18 messages.6.gz
drwxr-sr-x 2 news news 4.0K 2008-11-21 09:24 news
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66K 2010-04-26 13:09 nvidia-installer.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86 2010-05-27 16:50 PackageKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.5K 2010-10-18 23:58 pm-powersave.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 2010-09-26 11:57 pm-powersave.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236 2010-08-29 19:01 pm-powersave.log.2.gz
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 202 2010-07-01 20:11 pm-powersave.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 324 2010-10-16 10:01 pycentral.log
drwxr-x--- 3 root adm 4.0K 2010-10-17 16:04 samba
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-10-17 16:04 scrollkeeper.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-10-10 07:41 scrollkeeper.log.1
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-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 8.6K 2010-10-19 10:51 syslog
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-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 10K 2010-10-13 08:01 syslog.7.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180K 2010-10-18 23:58 udev
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 2010-10-16 11:23 ufw.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-10-13 04:52 unattended-upgrades
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 2010-10-16 07:56 user.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 134 2010-10-15 09:55 user.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 140 2010-10-08 13:54 user.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 140 2010-09-26 11:57 user.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 141 2010-08-29 19:01 user.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-10-19 07:46 wpa_supplicant.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2010-10-18 07:47 wpa_supplicant.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2010-10-17 16:04 wpa_supplicant.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2010-10-16 07:56 wpa_supplicant.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2010-10-15 07:52 wpa_supplicant.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2010-10-14 07:59 wpa_supplicant.log.5.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 81K 2010-10-19 00:00 wtmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 4.9K 2010-09-26 11:57 wtmp.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 545 2010-10-16 10:03 wvdialconf.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13K 2010-10-19 00:01 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18K 2010-10-19 00:01 Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22K 2010-10-16 18:43 Xorg.failsafe.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22K 2010-10-16 18:43 Xorg.failsafe.log.old

[claydoh]

Re: no GUI after update?

I am stumped now

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

Still smells like a defective video driver situation, to me, since the problem is not related to a particular user. Which Nvidia GPU do you have?

lspci -v

and paste the line that has a "VGA" in it. Also,

sudo lsmod

and let's see whether you have "nouveau", "nv", or something with "nvidia" in it.

Note that there is presently an epidemic of broken video for GeForce 8xxx-series users, trying to run 10.10.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

ok.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)

and then:
Module Size Used by
arc4 1153 2
ath5k 121664 0
mac80211 205402 1 ath5k
ath 7611 1 ath5k
cfg80211 126496 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
led_class 2864 1 ath5k
snd_intel8x0 25588 0
snd_ac97_codec 100646 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1002 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70694 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
ppdev 5259 0
fbcon 35102 72
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 54148 10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
nvidia 9961216 28
vga16fb 11385 1
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
parport_pc 25962 1
intel_agp 24119 1
soundcore 6620 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp 28820 0
agpgart 31724 2 nvidia,intel_agp
lp 7060 0
parport 32635 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
usbhid 36110 0
hid 67032 1 usbhid
e100 28211 0
mii 4381 1 e100
floppy 53016 0


hope this makes sense!

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

nvidia 9961216 28

Yep.

floppy 53016 0

Wow, you don't see that one every day.

OK, looking back up to your reply #14, me and Mr. Google found this: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9541.15

After shutting down KDM with

sudo service kdm stop

I would try the following two things:

1.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall kdebase-workspace-bin

2.

sudo rm /tmp/.X0-lock

then, (praying quietly),

sudo service kdm start

I'll cross my fingers.

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

I'm about to reboot but wanted to post this first (just in case!)

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo service kdm stop
kdm stop/waiting
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall kdebase-workspace-bin
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates Release [44.7kB]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/universe Sources
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/multiverse Sources
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Packages [331kB]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release [38.5kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Packages [3,240B]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/main Sources [130kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/restricted Sources [1,443B]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Packages [141kB]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Packages [92.5kB]
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/universe Sources [54.7kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Packages [7,134B]
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-updates/multiverse Sources [3,678B]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Packages [14B]
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ lucid/partner Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid/partner Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid/partner Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/main Sources
Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/restricted Sources
Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Packages
Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/universe Sources
Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:
Fetched 849kB in 26s (32.5kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...rce/Sources.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...rce/Sources.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...86/Packages.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...rce/Sources.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...86/Packages.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:

W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/di...rce/Sources.gz Unable to connect to security.ubuntu.com:http:

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo rm /tmp/.X0-lock
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo service kdm start
kdm start/running, process 5004

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

nope. did not work.

same error messages as before--tried both users just in case.

hmmm.

[dibl]

Re: no GUI after update?

Setting aside the connection problem with the lucid-security repo, I don't see anything that indicates the reinstallation of kdebase-workspace-bin. Hmmm.

Can you try just

sudo apt-get install --reinstall kdebase-workspace-bin

please?

[sarahschmara]

Re: no GUI after update?

ok. tried the suggestions in the link... ctrl+alt+F7 was black, blank, and v. scary.

here is what happened:

sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ ksm server
No command 'ksm' found, did you mean:
Command 'ksu' from package 'heimdal-clients' (universe)
Command 'ksu' from package 'krb5-user' (main)
Command 'kst' from package 'kst-bin' (universe)
Command 'ksh' from package 'ksh' (universe)
Command 'ksh' from package 'mksh' (universe)
Command 'ksh' from package 'zsh' (main)
Command 'ksh' from package 'pdksh' (main)
Command 'kcm' from package 'heimdal-kcm' (universe)
Command 'xsm' from package 'x11-session-utils' (main)
Command 'kdm' from package 'kdm' (main)
Command 'ysm' from package 'ysm' (universe)
Command 'kvm' from package 'qemu-kvm' (main)
Command 'sm' from package 'sm' (universe)
ksm: command not found
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo ksm server
[sudo] password for sarah:
sudo: ksm: command not found
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdebase-workspace-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
kdebase-workspace-bin is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libopenal1 libswscale0 libxvidcore4 libsvga1 liblircclient0 mplayer libavformat52 sdparm ethtool libx264-85 libenca0 liblzo2-2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 mplayer-nogui
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
sarah@sarah-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install konsole dolphin systemsettings synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
konsole is already the newest version.
dolphin is already the newest version.
systemsettings is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libopenal1 libswscale0 libxvidcore4 libsvga1 liblircclient0 mplayer libavformat52 sdparm ethtool libx264-85 libenca0 liblzo2-2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 mplayer-nogui
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
docbook-xml gamin gnome-mime-data gvfs gvfs-backends indicator-application libappindicator0 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common
libcairo-perl libcdio-cdda0 libcdio-paranoia0 libcdio10 libdbusmenu-gtk1 libgamin0 libgdu0 libglib-perl libgnome2-0 libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-common libgnome2-perl
libgnome2-vfs-perl libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2-perl libgvfscommon0
libindicator0 libjson-glib-1.0-0 liblaunchpad-integration1 libpango-perl libproxy0 librarian0 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libvte-common libvte9 policykit-1-gnome python-glade2
rarian-compat scrollkeeper sgml-data software-properties-gtk
Suggested packages:
docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-xsl docbook-defguide libbonobo2-bin desktop-base gnome-icon-theme libgnomevfs2-bin libgtk2-perl-doc librsvg2-common python-gtk2-doc perlsgml
doc-html-w3 opensp dwww deborphan
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