Fresh install destroyed by system update - 4 times in a row.

[ashdude]

I'm not sure what happened. I did a clean install of Kubuntu Gutsy from a Live CD. Everything went well and it was up in less than 20 minutes. I then installed my Nvidia drivers (which installed beautifully, BTW) and set my screen resolution. Then rebooted to come up with the correct resolution and then I started my system update. But when I did an update from the Adept Updater it gave me an error of "commiting changes." When I close the window and try again, I get the same message. And it breaks the system! Not instantly. But when I reboot, it boots up to a blank screen. I tried the install 4 times with the same results. On my 5th install, I disabled the Adept Updater. Here's a screen shot of the error.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r.../snapshot1.png

Any ideas about what happened

[Snowhog]

Re: Fresh install destroyed by system update - 4 times in a row.

If Adept won't restart after a package install and
reports:
"Another process is using the packaging system
database (probably some other adept
application or apt-get or aptitude)..."
Open a konsole and run the following:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

If that does not work, then run:
sudo apt-get -f install

The following are not required to fix the problem:
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install

[wolfger]

Re: Fresh install destroyed by system update - 4 times in a row.

Open a konsole and run the following:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Sweet. That fixed my Gutsy install. Thanks!