broken libqt4-dbus on 10-04 LTS

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 02 November 2012 17:41:35 Colin Law did opine:

> On 2 November 2012 20:02, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 02 November 2012 15:32:07 Colin Law did opine:
> >> On 2 November 2012 16:18, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> >> > On Friday 02 November 2012 12:12:42 Colin Law did opine:
> >> >> apt-cache policy libqt4-dbus
> >> > 
> >> > libqt4-dbus:
> >> >   Installed: 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4
> >> >   Candidate: 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4
> >> >  
> >> >   Version table:
> >> >  *** 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4 0
> >> >  
> >> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >> 
> >> Is that all it said?  I would have expected it to show the repository
> >> also.
> >> 
> >> Are you sure you installed it from the repository and not by
> >> downloading a deb file?  That seems to be the right version though
> >> [1].
> > 
> > That was from the original install, from a nearly 18 month old respin
> > of 10.04.4 LTS, the respin by the LinuxCNC guys, with a specially
> > built RTAI enabled 2.6.32.122 kernel, designed to facilitate an i/o
> > cycle that may loop every 20 microseconds and must do this loop with
> > a timing jitter under 5 or so microseconds, so it never came from a
> > 'repo', but from the installation cd.  Because RTAI is married to &
> > compiled into the kernel, no kernel updates have ever been done to
> > any of these machines.
> > 
> > All machines are behind a dd-wrt router and it would take John months,
> > maybe even years to hack that password. :)
> > 
> > But I need to find a solution, much of my menu's are dead because of
> > it.
> > 
> >> Colin
> >> 
> >> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libqt4-dbus
> > 
> > And why can't apt-get pull that?  Something wrong with my sources
> > list?
> > 
> > # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.04 LTS _Lucid Lynx_ - Release i386 (20100429)]/
> > lucid main restricted # See
> > http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to #
> > newer versions of the distribution.
> > 
> > 
> > ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
> > ## distribution.
> > 
> > ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
> > Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT
> > receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> > 
> > ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
> > Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy
> > yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note
> > that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates
> > from the Ubuntu ## security team.
> > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse
> > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
> > 
> > ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the
> > 'backports' ## repository.
> > ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
> > ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
> > includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide
> > useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL
> > NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
> > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports multiverse
> > # deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-backports main
> > restricted universe multiverse
> > 
> > ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
> > ## 'partner' repository.
> > ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical
> > and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
> > deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
> > deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
> > 
> > deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security multiverse
> > 
> > # deb http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ lucid v2.5_branch-rt
> > deb http://linuxcnc.org/ lucid base linuxcnc2.5
> > 
> > deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu
> > lucid main
> > 
> > And I just added:
> > deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main
> > to that list, which may help.  But I have added that line in the
> > synaptic repo menu 3 times, then into /etc/apt/sources.list too, but
> > synaptic refuses to show it in its repo listing despite several
> > retarts.
> 
> I presume you have done
> sudo apt-get update

Reloading the data in synaptic did NOT seem to effect this.

Doing the apt-get update, then restarting synaptic made it available as a 
re-install option, which I did, and which didn't effect the results, most 
of my menu's are there, but do nothing when clicked on.  Is this something 
that might require a reboot?  Come to think of it, this started with the 
last reboot, something forced on me by excessive swap usage that a "swapoff 
-a; swapon -a" that I need to do about weekly, but after about 3 weeks, the 
heavy swap usage comes back in half an hour and I give up & reboot the 
beast.  Uptime is currently in the 2nd day.  I'll send this, and reboot 
just for S&G.
 
> Otherwise I am out of my depth I am afraid.

Sounds like its launchpad time then, but I've no clue what my login and 
passwd are, its been at least a year, maybe more.

Thanks Colin.

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