Kernel hell

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 22:10 +0200, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 June 2010 16:37:07 Tony Sivori wrote:
> > Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > I un-installed lm-sensors but if I try to un-install libsensors4 I get:
> > > 
> > > tol at tanghus:~$ sudo aptitude purge libsensors4 Reading package lists...
> > > Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > Reading extended state information
> > > Initializing package states... Done
> > > 
> > > The following packages are BROKEN:
> > >   ksysguardd libsnmp15
> > > 
> > > Is it necessary to remove it too?
> > 
> > I had a similar problem with lm sensors. This was a while back, if memory
> > serves as soon as I'd start lm sensors, X would freeze or crash or I'd
> > get a spontaneous reboot. OS was Kubuntu 8.04. It happened with two
> > different computers, both Intel chipped mainboards, but neither was
> > running integrated graphics.
> > 
> > Anyway, the trouble disappeared for me without uninstalling lm sensors.
> > All I had to do was stop running the program.
> 
> Unfortunately it didn't help here. Last night I had a serious crash which left 
> me with filesystem errors (ext3) that I couldn't recover from. To add to the 
> misery my optical drive died and the Kubuntu 9.10 I had on a USB key failed. 
> Luckily I found an old CD-ROM drive and a CD with Kubuntu 8.04 so I spent 
> until 6am recovering the system and making a recovery USB key with 9.10.

Heh, I feel your pain, only mine was self-inflicted. rm -rf, as root,
can be a dangerous thing! I'm just now recovering from the loss
of /usr/sbin.  Yes, I've done this before, in various fashions, I have
to admit, but I don't think I am alone in this. <chuckles> Ric