Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

[Gaeel-noob]

I receive this message each time I try to install a program with adept :
"There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages."

I am not the only one with this error on this site, but none were in the same circumstances as mine.

Mine has been doing this since I installed Kubuntu .
I've attempted several repairs that were suggested to other users, to no avail.

At first I had a problem launching Adept because some other program was using the apt-get network or something, and I found a post that solved that.

[shadowfx78]

Re: Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

firstly are you sure you are connected to the internet i had this same problem and my internet connection was down.

[askrieger]

Re: Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

I have two questions. First what is the EXACT WORDING (or as close as you can get) of the error message that you get from Adept? Second what are the corrective measures that you've already tried and what was the result?

[Gaeel-noob]

Re: Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

Shadowfx78 :
Yes I am connected, I'm posting these messages from the computer I'm having trouble with, Kubuntu loaded.

askrieger :
The exact wording is the sentence I quoted : "There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages." I kept the typo on the word "committing" since I copied the error message into this post.

I tried using : sudo dpkg --configure -a
It does nothing, it reacts as if I pressed enter without typing anything.
I tried : sudo dpkg --configure --pending
to the same result.

I got some results by using :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

update downloaded correctly but dist-upgrade gave me this :

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

I just tried this : kdesu adept_installer
Which opens Adept but supplies me with the following when the installer fails :

kapture::PkgSystem::CreatePM()
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
 Major opcode: 144
 Minor opcode: 3
 Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
 Major opcode: 144
 Minor opcode: 3
 Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

Maybe you can make some sence of this?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg --configure -a

(Debian APT Manual)

[Gaeel-noob]

Re: Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

Ok thanks dude, that worked great...

Now to get the ATI drivers working...

[shadowfx78]

Re: Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

I sometimes get a similar display like the x error thing to and i have never been able to fix it as well

[askrieger]

Re: Adept installer gives "could not commit changes"

The X error is related to fact that Ubuntu systems are set up out of the box for tablet PC's (don't ask me why). Search the site for the term "wacom". You have to #comment out 3 stanzas and 3 additional lines from the serverlayout stanza of your /ext/X11/xorg.conf file. The only harm they're doing is to confuse you with irrelevant error messages. Getting rid of them is one of the first things I do when I install Kubuntu.