Ok, here we go.
I just installed Kubuntu 6.06 LTS on my 933Mhz Compaq Presario 5003US with 256Mb of RAM and a 60Gig Hard drive. I downloaded Automatix and installed it successfully. I'm fairly competent with Linux. My problem is this. Whilst downloading a bunch of stuff from automatix, my screen froze on a line that read "updating libfont cache". So I restarted, tried it again. This time, before I downloaded anything, the script that calls automatix says that "failed to open device"(see below - second edit) and that I should run "dpkg --configure -a". So I try that. Unfortunately, it freezes. So I reboot in Rescue/Recovery mode and do an "apt-get upgrade" (which I saw solved someones similar problem on the forum) . It froze. When I restarted in recovery mode, I just did "dpkg --config -a" without trying anything else. It froze when it was loading the locale "SG", wherever that is. So I restarted again, "dpkg --configure -a" again, it executed successfully. I restarted into the KDE desktop, loaded Automatix, downloaded everything I tried beforehand, and it went past "updating libfont cache". Everything was fine, except that Automatix froze at "regenerating fonts cache". I am at my wits end with this thing. I've tried everything I could think of. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
-Matthew
EDIT: Just wanted to clarify that the error message is the following:
"E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. "
EDIT: X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
I just installed Kubuntu 6.06 LTS on my 933Mhz Compaq Presario 5003US with 256Mb of RAM and a 60Gig Hard drive. I downloaded Automatix and installed it successfully. I'm fairly competent with Linux. My problem is this. Whilst downloading a bunch of stuff from automatix, my screen froze on a line that read "updating libfont cache". So I restarted, tried it again. This time, before I downloaded anything, the script that calls automatix says that "failed to open device"(see below - second edit) and that I should run "dpkg --configure -a". So I try that. Unfortunately, it freezes. So I reboot in Rescue/Recovery mode and do an "apt-get upgrade" (which I saw solved someones similar problem on the forum) . It froze. When I restarted in recovery mode, I just did "dpkg --config -a" without trying anything else. It froze when it was loading the locale "SG", wherever that is. So I restarted again, "dpkg --configure -a" again, it executed successfully. I restarted into the KDE desktop, loaded Automatix, downloaded everything I tried beforehand, and it went past "updating libfont cache". Everything was fine, except that Automatix froze at "regenerating fonts cache". I am at my wits end with this thing. I've tried everything I could think of. Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
-Matthew
EDIT: Just wanted to clarify that the error message is the following:
"E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. "
EDIT: X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
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