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**Narceron** · Nov 12, 2006, 12:19 AM

Re: problems with adept

Originally posted by kubicle

Originally posted by Narceron

Umm, actually, the text I posted was from when I used the sudo dpkg --configure -a command, so that does not work. At least it has not so far.

Sorry for that, I didn't read the thread thoroughly (enough), I thought Tynach had a problem with a lock file, and offered a solution for that (unneededly :P). dpkg --configure won't help in your case (as you have clearly noticed). Since there are errors during the install, it probably won't go through no matter how many times you run it

Yeah, so reinstall kubuntu?

**Narceron** · Nov 12, 2006, 10:47 AM

Re: problems with adept

OH, sorry, umm, Podunk, I did try your tip, but it still tries to connect to seti,

**podunk** · Nov 12, 2006, 02:40 PM

Re: problems with adept

Well - sheet! Plaid one at that!

Is this the seti from the package manager? I haven't screwd up a machine in almost a week, I'll give it a try and see what happens. :-)

**podunk** · Nov 12, 2006, 03:12 PM

Re: problems with adept

Fixed!

It did the same thing with me. I may not be hopeless at this Linux stuff after all.

When I tried to update adept I got an error about no public key found from some place in OZ. So I modifed my sources list by commenting out that - plus I commented out some other non standard repositories. After I did that i updated, depacked, then purrged setiat home and it was gone.

Code:

kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list

Replace everything with this:

Code:

## Add comments (##) in front of any line to remove it from being checked.  
## Use the following sources.list at your own risk. 

deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper main restricted universe multiverse

## MAJOR BUG FIX UPDATES produced after the final release
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse

## UBUNTU SECURITY UPDATES
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main restricted universe multiverse

## BACKPORTS REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src [url]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
#deb [url]http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf[/url] dapper free non-free
#deb-src [url]http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf[/url] dapper free non-free                        
                                                                     
## CANONICAL COMMERCIAL REPOSITORY (Hosted on Canonical servers, not Ubuntu
## servers. RealPlayer10, Opera and more to come.)
#deb [url]http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-commercial main
##############kde 3,5.5
#deb [url]http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-355[/url] dapper main
#deb [url]ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/3.5.5/kubuntu[/url] dapper main #wouldn't update
#deb [url]http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.5/kubuntu[/url] dapper main
#deb [url]http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/kde/stable/3.5.5/kubuntu[/url] dapper main

Then

Code:

sudo aptitude update

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude purge setiathome

**Narceron** · Nov 12, 2006, 07:02 PM

Re: problems with adept

Podunk, I followed your steps:

I got this:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kbuildsycoca running...
ScimInputContextPlugin()
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
ScimInputContextPlugin()
QObject::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
invalid length 24902
Failed to process 45 bytes from server
invalid length 24902
invalid length 24902
invalid length 24902
~ScimInputContextPlugin()
Narceron@segnar:~$ sudo aptitude update
Password:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release.gpg [191B]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release [34.8kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [30.9kB]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [30.9kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release [23.3kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages [619kB]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [80.2kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages [4571B]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages [2458kB]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [6460B]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages [41.3kB]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/multiverse Packages [2782B]
Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [14.8kB]
Get:17 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [968B]
Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources [5094B]
Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/multiverse Sources [520B]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Packages [95.2kB]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources [255kB]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources [1478B]
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Sources [975kB]
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Sources [46.6kB]
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [126kB]
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/universe Packages [19.3kB]
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/multiverse Packages [964B]
Get:29 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [47.4kB]
Get:30 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:31 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/universe Sources [3129B]
Get:32 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/multiverse Sources [427B]
Get:33 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Packages [11.5kB]
Get:34 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:35 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Packages [33.4kB]
Get:36 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Packages [1804B]
Get:37 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Sources [3640B]
Get:38 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:39 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Sources [7762B]
Get:40 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Sources [864B]
Fetched 4984kB in 16s (309kB/s)
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
Narceron@segnar:~$ sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude purge setiathome
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release.gpg [191B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Sources
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/multiverse Sources
Fetched 4B in 2s (2B/s)
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
Narceron@segnar:~$

**Narceron** · Nov 12, 2006, 07:03 PM

Re: problems with adept

Then I tried the configure -a command, as prompted:

Narceron@segnar:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up setiathome (3.08-4) ...
setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar not found in /tmp.
--19:01:05-- ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/set...-linux-gnu.tar
=> `/tmp/filedqqrxd'
Resolving alien.ssl.berkeley.edu... 128.32.18.176
Connecting to alien.ssl.berkeley.edu|128.32.18.176|:21...

**dewclaw82** · Nov 12, 2006, 08:29 PM

Re: problems with adept

I'm another newbie and I have locked Adept several times; once to the point that I thought I was going to have to reinstall kubuntu. Here's the advice that worked for me:

1. First try the dpkg --configure -a. Since you've done that already, open each of the following folders in Root Krusader**:

/var/lib/apt/lists/
var/lib/dpkg/
/var/cache/apt/archives/

There will be a text file named "lock" in one or more of the above places. Delete the lock file in each place you find it and Adept will be free again.

**I've also been having trouble getting into Root Krusader through a GUI, but "sudo Root Krusader" works.

**Narceron** · Nov 13, 2006, 08:52 AM

Re: problems with adept

Hmm, says root command not found, then if one word, rootkrusader not found,

I might be dense, but I also tried using konqueror, but it says access denied,

**Narceron** · Nov 16, 2006, 01:27 PM

Re: problems with adept

I don't know what happened, I followed all those steps, it was still broken, now, today, its fine.

GO fig, I did finally get a chance to remove that accursed piece of code called seti,

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