Dependency Hell!

[Mark76]

Everytime I use any package installer or updater I get the following

[Fintan]

Re: Can Anyone Tell We What To Do About This?

I think I know what it is. You have some dependencies missing.

Open a terminal (K->system->terminal) and do:

sudo apt-get update

then do:

sudo apt-get upgrade

you can copy and paste.

this should narrow down the problem and maybe even offer a solution.

Post whatever the last spits out.

You might want to change your title to : Dependancy hell or something. Use modify for that.

Sorry, I have to go now, my girlfriend is waiting and it is friday night

[dibl]

Re: Can Anyone Tell We What To Do About This?

Fintan is probably correct. However, just in case it is worse than that, I recommend you run the following command FIRST, and then run the ones that he suggested.

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[Mark76]

Re: Dependency Hell!

Okay, I dpkged --configed -a and this is what I got

etting up dhcdbd (2.0-5ubuntu1) ...
* Reloading system message bus config... [ OK ]
* Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon dhcdbd invoke-rc.d: initscript dhcdbd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing dhcdbd (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
network-manager depends on dhcdbd (>= 1.12-2); however:
Package dhcdbd is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-kde:
network-manager-kde depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.2); however:
Package network-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-kde (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
dhcdbd
network-manager
network-manager-kde

Why do I even have a network manager running? I'm not on any.

[dibl]

Re: Dependency Hell!

Hmmmmm.

Well, if you actually don't need it, go into KMenu>System Settings and find the network stuff and turn it off. Or, if it is a "service", you can go to Advanced>System Services and maybe turn it off there. :P

[Mark76]

Re: Dependency Hell!

Might I need it for connecting to the internet?

I thought it might be an intranet thing, but I'm really not too sure.

[dibl]

Re: Dependency Hell!

Ahh -- we are under Gutsy here, aren't we :P

It looks like a Python error, which is a scripting language. I don't THINK this is related to connecting to the Internet, but I can't guarantee it. I'm thinking it's more of an unfinished Gutsy thing.

[Fenyx]

Re: Dependency Hell!

I am getting the same errors for any module from kde-guidance. You can get around that by manually and individually launching the module you want with

kdesu serviceconfig

Others would be: displayconfig, userconfig, wineconfig, and mountconfig.

[Mark76]

Re: Dependency Hell!

Here's the output I got when I did that

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 156
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

Couldn't load file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/guidance-packagedescriptioncache'
Not reading description cache data