Multiple Problem with Bluetooth, Samba, and Adept

[Joseph T]

I've been trying to figure this out on my own for a while and I've gotten no where, so I need some help. Saturday I boot up my Kubuntu partition to find that it's booting oddly. A bit of background, for some reason Samba was conflicting with everything that I was trying to install and update about a week and a half ago. After much aggravation and effort, I managed to get it uninstalled which appeared to have solved my problem then (I think).

After the splash screen with the progress bar, it dumps to a screen where it appears to be checking to make sure everything is OK; there is a list of items with "OK" out to the right of them. However, it stops at "Starting Bluetooth" After that it goes through and displays several errors. There is about five, all similarly formated, starting with a number with about 5-6 digits following after the decimal, "usb 5-1", and then some other things. After about five it dumps to a another screen that disappears too fast for me to read, then it proceeds to boot the desktop.

After I got to the desktop, I was hoping I was fine and that this is no big deal so I opened Adapt and tried to update everything. It simply fails, every single time I try to install or update and software from the repositories. It says:

"Errors were encountered while processing:
samba-common
winbind
wine
smbclient
kubuntu-kde4-desktop"

I can post more, but it's fairly lengthy. I'm at the end of my rope here, I'm honestly not sure what to do next. Can anyone give me some help here?

[digimars]

Re: Multiple Problem with Bluetooth, Samba, and Adept

First off, I am assuming that you have a bluetooth device installed? If you could take a quick peek at what some of the messages are that show [OK] when your computer boots up, write one of those lines down quickly. Then, after you get logged in, open a terminal and open a terminal and type:

dmesg | less

You can use the up and down arrows to scroll through these entries. What you are looking at is hardware messages from your kernel during the bootup. Look around for the line that you wrote down during the boot process and search above it to see if there were any error messages.

As for your your apt problem, try this from a command prompt:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

Then try and see if you can upgrade any of your packages. If you run into more errors, post back about them.

[Joseph T]

Re: Multiple Problem with Bluetooth, Samba, and Adept

Allright, I've got the log and found the error messages:

[ 43.394309] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 43.394315] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 43.417260] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
[ 43.417269] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 43.775813] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 43.775835] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 43.775838] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 46.612778] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 49.221389] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 49.222088] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 52.953385] usb 5-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 52.959390] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 59.427414] ath0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 59.659273] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 67.999356] usb 5-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 83.040606] usb 5-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 83.045654] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 88.062650] usb 5-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110
[ 93.141371] usb 5-1: device descriptor read/8, error -110


This isn't all of it; but from what I can read this is the bulk of it. The rest looks like it would be redundant. Just more usb errors. I've got a list of them now, so if need be I can post it in it's entirety.

And I've already tried that for apt with no luck. For example, I just tried to uninstall Razertool and this is what I got:


Removing razertool ...
Setting up samba-common (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4) ...
Not replacing deleted config file /etc/samba/smb.conf
chmod: cannot access `/etc/samba/smb.conf': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing samba-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of smbclient:
smbclient depends on samba-common (= 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4); however:
Package samba-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing smbclient (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kubuntu-kde4-desktop:
kubuntu-kde4-desktop depends on smbclient; however:
Package smbclient is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kubuntu-kde4-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of winbind:
winbind depends on samba-common (= 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4); however:
Package samba-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing winbind (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
samba-common
smbclient
kubuntu-kde4-desktop
winbind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Odd thing is, I removed samba. One day it randomly starting giving me trouble like this for no obvious reason; I had to Google it to figure out what it is. I'd never used it, I just rebooted and for some reason samba refused to let me update or install anything. Now I'm getting the same problem, but as far as I'm aware samba shouldn't even be on my system. Every time I try to install, remove, or update any software, I get these errors.