[Resolved] Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

[bhamm77]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

DRDRUID

Yes. I have a live CD. I will implement the uninstall & install this evening. Just wanted to give a quick reply as I saw you were in the forum.

Appreciate you taking a look.

[flarson]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

/usr/sbin/update-grub is a bash script. It does nothing but write the menu.lst file based on the kernels it finds in /boot. Somehow his script has gotten corrupted.

sudo aptitude reinstall grub

should replace it with a good one. If it does not someone who has a 9.04 update-grub should send it to him so he can copy it into place and run it.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

It's a little more complicated than that.

He has removed grub, and installed grub-gfxboot in its place.

See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208855

He has to remove grub-gfxboot first.

[flarson]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

So then sudo aptitude install grub will probably solve this. I thought he had followed your advice to remove grub-gfxboot.

[bhamm77]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

Done with the uninstall of (grub-gfxboot)... Done with install of grub.....Done with grub update......

I allowed the grub installation to rewrite my menu.lst. All seems to have worked out well, see below:

ben@ben-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove grub-gfxboot           
Reading package lists... Done           
Building dependency tree              
Reading state information... Done         
The following packages will be REMOVED:      
 grub-gfxboot                   
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1656kB disk space will be freed.    
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y               
(Reading database ... 159075 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub-gfxboot ...                        
Processing triggers for man-db ... 
                  
ben@ben-desktop:~$ cd /boot/grub
           
ben@ben-desktop:/boot/grub$ sudo cp menu.lst menu.lst-backup2
ben@ben-desktop:/boot/grub$ sudo apt-get install grub    
Reading package lists... Done                
Building dependency tree                   
Reading state information... Done              
The following extra packages will be installed:       
 grub-common                        
Suggested packages:                     
 grub-doc mdadm multiboot-doc                
The following NEW packages will be installed:        
 grub grub-common                      
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1018kB of archives.                
After this operation, 2281kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y                  
Get:1 [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] jaunty/main grub-common 1.96+20080724-12ubuntu2 [101kB]
Get:2 [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] jaunty/main grub 0.97-29ubuntu53 [916kB]        
Fetched 1018kB in 3s (273kB/s)                              
Preconfiguring packages ...                                
Selecting previously deselected package grub-common.                   
(Reading database ... 159031 files and directories currently installed.)         
Unpacking grub-common (from .../grub-common_1.96+20080724-12ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...    
Selecting previously deselected package grub.                       
Unpacking grub (from .../grub_0.97-29ubuntu53_amd64.deb) ...               
Processing triggers for man-db ...                            
Setting up grub-common (1.96+20080724-12ubuntu2) ...                   
Setting up grub (0.97-29ubuntu53) ...                           

ben@ben-desktop:/boot/grub$ sudo grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.

    [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For
     the  first  word, TAB lists possible command
     completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
     completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,3)
root (hd0,3)

grub> setup (hd0)
setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,3)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.
grub> quit
quit

ben@ben-desktop:/boot/grub$ sudo update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-14-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
[font=Verdana]Replacing config file /var/run/grub/menu.lst with new version[/font]
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

ben@ben-desktop:/boot/grub$

should I reboot now to test??

[Snowhog]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

So far, looks good. Yes, reboot and ensure that you select the kernel you want to boot.

[bhamm77]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

Reboot went just fine. I selected [linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic]. Some how I still have my boot splash screen, thats great, I thought I would lose it.

Guess I am getting closer now to working on my original problem, which is getting my desktop-cube to work.

[Snowhog]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

Good. As this thread sort of morphed into more that the original issue, it would be a good idea if you marked this as RESOLVED (return to your original post and click the modify button and add RESOLVED to the subject), and then open a new post for your desktop-cube issue.

[bhamm77]

Re: Dependecy problems & unconfigured packages

will do. I will try to enable my desktop effects. If it doesn't work I will begin a new post called "problems enabling desktop effects cotinued". If I do get the effects going, I will explain how i did it, in my previous "desktop effects" topic, and mark it resolved also.

I want to say thanks alot to all the people who helped me get this far! You guys have been great! I learned alot and had fun doing it.