Automattix2 problems

[Patrick Vossen]

Thanks Scott,

I will try to uninstall Automattix2 then look for
that info from the latest newsletter. I also will
erase the automattix2 line from the sources.list.
If things are still unstable I'm able to reinstall
Kubuntu.


Patrick
--- Scott Mazur <kubuntulists at littlefish.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:36:10 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote
> > Patrick Vossen wrote:
> > 
> > > I did an additional system update to Edgy and lost my sound.
> > > To make a long story short I couldn't remedy it after a
> > > few suggested solutions. That being the case I attempted
> > > to reformat and install Ubuntu again. It didn't work.
> > 
> > No surprise.  Sorry, but Automatix is _known_ not to play well
> with Ubuntu.
> > 
> > > after I had to cancel. I did a dkpackage -a fix. But,
> > 
> > dpkg?
> > 
> > > I think I have two options. Reinstall 
> > > Kubuntu, or alter my sources.list which I've done before,
> > > but wanted to avoid. What does anyone have for alternate
> > > suggestions?
> > 
> > You've b0rked apt by using automatix, so you need to fix it by
> removing
> > automatix.
> 
> Hmmm....  That MUST be why the latest issue of Linux Magazine just
> published
> an article titled 'Tweaking Ubuntu' which walks you through
> installing
> Automatix.  Come to think of it, the FIRST tweak they start with is
> how to
> enable the Root account again...
> 
> 
> Scott
> 
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