[OBORONA-SPAM] Re: Lots of Dapper Problems

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

I don't have so much experience with apt-get but try running aptitude it
is pretty versatile at sorting out package dependency problems. Try
running  "$  sudo aptitude install -f" to fix up the install problems. I
have no idea about the GDM stuff, sorry.

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 08:07 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 17:39 -0400, Bill Atkins wrote:
> > Well, like I said, the APT problem only exists on my laptop.  My
> > desktop is still having the sound, GDM, and install CD problems.
> > 
> > The "apt-get -f install" and "dpkg --configure -a" suggestions in
> > Troubleshooting give me the same errors as any other apt-get
> > operation. 
> 
> Oh, I overlooked that you are talking about more than 1 machine, sorry.
> Did you install ubuntu-desktop before upgrading? If not, you might want
> to try to now (on all the machines). It might sort things out a bit, but
> I doubt it can do anything about the laptop's apt problem at this point.
> I'm going to concentrate on the apt problem for now. It starts with
> this:
> 
> Setting up fontconfig (2.3.2-1.1ubuntu12) ...
> ln: creating symbolic link
> `/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf' to
> `/etc/fonts/conf.d/no-bitmaps.conf': File exists
> 
> And this causes other problems down the road. I'd suggest we try to
> resolve this first. fontconfig tries to create a link called 30-... to
> the file no-..., but fails for some reasons. The /etc/fonts/conf.d
> directory looks like this on my computer. Please paste your version in a
> reply (using the ls -l command)
> 
> ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/
> total 32
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   32 2006-05-19 23:47 20-debconf-sub-pixel.conf
> -> /etc/fonts/conf.d/sub-pixel.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   33 2006-05-19 23:47 30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf
> -> /etc/fonts/conf.d/no-bitmaps.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  250 2005-05-04 21:51 autohint.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  306 2005-05-04 21:51 no-bitmaps.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  257 2005-05-04 21:51 no-sub-pixel.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  256 2005-05-04 21:51 sub-pixel.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  597 2006-04-19 00:33 ttf-arphic-ukai
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1627 2006-05-24 22:07 ttf-arphic-uming
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  247 2005-05-04 21:51 unhinted.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  296 2005-05-04 21:51 yes-bitmaps.conf
> 
> 
> 
> 
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