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**dibl** · Apr 07, 2008, 03:35 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

Usually the lines toward the end of the backtrace, and immediately preceding "error" or "? ? ?" are the best clues:

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#23 0x00007facef3945c3 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#24 0x00007facef3942af in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#25 0x00007facef37be00 in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3

I searched Launchpad here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/

for "libqt-mt-so.3" and did not find any reported bugs. So I ran a Google search, and (of course) found a Launchpad report!

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4006

But not an answer. :P

Here's kind of a generic thing to do when things related to Adept or package installation seem to be going wrong. Open the Konsole and enter the following series of commands, while watching for any error messages;

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sudo dpkg --configure -a

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get upgrade

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sudo apt-get install

Then try Adept Manager again and see what you get. Quite a few Kubuntu users report that the have fewer problems by installing and using Synaptic for the GUI interface to package management.

**wenchkin** · Apr 08, 2008, 02:54 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

Oki, I tried using Synaptic yesterday and reinstalled all the adept "bits" which seemed to help it back to life a bit. I've run the commands you suggested which all went fine with no errors. So far, *touch wood* it's been well enough behaved. Thank you

I've started to get braver using terminal and Synaptic now I've got a wee clue what I'm doing. Synaptic gave me way too many more options than I could understand at first :P

Wenchy

**dewclaw82** · Apr 15, 2008, 07:34 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

My problem was not quite the same as wenchkin's but it was close; I had requested an upgrade on the 183 packages shown in the little updates available triangle. Adept started off fine and downloaded all of them, but then crashed after only installing 14 with that little notice that says something to the effect of "we had to stop because otherwise something might break."

I followed the steps in dibl's post and everything except one update is now installed. I'm going to go check, but I'm guessing that this might be the one update that caused the trouble.

Thanks a lot, dibl.

**BostonBrother** · May 31, 2008, 07:09 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

I am having some problems with adept as well and thought I might jump on this post.

When I try to

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sudo dpkg --configure -a

I get this error message:

drizzt@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85eubuntu36) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Any Ideas??

**Snowhog** · May 31, 2008, 08:18 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

Open a console and type:

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df -hTxtmpfs

This will report the amount of space available/used for each partition. Look at what is reported for your root ( / ) partition as well as your /home (if you have a separate partition for /home). If either are reporting Use% at/near 100% then you need to do some house cleaning and remove files that are no longer needed.

**BostonBrother** · Jun 02, 2008, 12:06 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

I seem to have more than enough space. Here is the output

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drizzt@ubuntu:~$ df -hTxtmpfs /root
Filesystem  Type  Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5   ext3   35G 4.8G  28G 15% /
drizzt@ubuntu:~$ df -hTxtmpfs /home
Filesystem  Type  Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6   ext3   14G 4.0G 9.1G 31% /home

**BostonBrother** · Jun 04, 2008, 04:49 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

Any ideas? If possible I'd like to avoid re-installing the OS, but right now that is the only thing that I can think of to try to correct the situation.

**dibl** · Jun 04, 2008, 05:23 PM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

Originally posted by BostonBrother

drizzt@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85eubuntu36) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Any Ideas??

I'm a little mystified by all of that output. Here's what happens on my rig:

Code:

dibl@cville:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dibl@cville:~$

Yep, you're seeing it right -- nothing at all. So I Googled "update-initramfs failed". Hmmmmm

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-k.../msg32310.html

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ols/+bug/45225

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=534758

That last one suggests you can get back to a healthy system by booting an older kernel (hopefully you have one) and updating/upgrading back to where you are. It appears you either deleted your current kernel's initramfs, or it got corrupted somehow.

**BostonBrother** · Jun 06, 2008, 03:12 AM

Re: Adept Manager/Updater crash

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it.

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