Nvidia and "get apt" no longer works properly. (drapper)

spiderslayer spiderslayer at cogeco.ca
Tue Jun 13 17:03:43 UTC 2006


I upgraded to Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper and I can not get my NVIDIA card
working and now I can't install anything. 

Through the initial install of 6.06 I got an error when configuring the
"edubuntu-desktop" and I don't know what to do to fix it. I'm assuming
that's why I'm having troubles... 

I get this error every time I try to install something now:

Errors were encountered while processing:
powernowd
edubuntu-desktop
mldonkey-server
ubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Command line...
~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
nvidia-glx is already the newest version.
nvidia-kernel-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up powernowd (0.97-1ubuntu1) ...
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/rc2.d/K20powernowd is not a link
to ../init.d/powernowd or /etc/init.d/powernowd
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K20powernowd
dpkg: error processing powernowd (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 102
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of edubuntu-desktop:
edubuntu-desktop depends on powernowd; however:
  Package powernowd is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing edubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up mldonkey-server (2.7.1-2ubuntu2) ...
Starting MLDonkey: mlnetinstall: invalid option -- f
Try `install --help' for more information.
invoke-rc.d: initscript mldonkey-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing mldonkey-server (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
ubuntu-desktop depends on powernowd; however:
  Package powernowd is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
powernowd
edubuntu-desktop
mldonkey-server
ubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Can someone please help?







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