input nightmare

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2014/08/10 12:24), NoOp wrote:
> Apparently I am missing something, but I after DAYS still not figure out
> what that "something" is ...
>
> Sorry Thomas, but I do not know enough to assist further. The
> configuration worked for me. Not sure that it matters, but this 14.04 is
> an upgrade from 12.04 - later I'll try a fresh 14.04 in a VM & see if I
> can replicate. In the interim, you might search launchpad to see if you
> can find an ibus bug report.
>
>
Thank you. I really appreciate your help.
Since the "ordinary" setup did not work, I tried to execute a command to 
install Ibus (as I found it in some online documentation)
This brings up a long list of error that make absolutely no sense to me, 
but I will copy them here.
Maybe somebody knows what they mean.
The suggestion at the end of that list ... could not yet try, since I 
follow Mr. Proven's advise and am running a Mem test.
It runs already for 12.5 hours and there is no telling when it will end ...
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thomas at einklang:~$ sudo apt-get install ibus
[sudo] password for thomas:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   hyphen-en-us libreoffice-help-de libreoffice-help-en-gb
   libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-help-ja libreoffice-l10n-de
   libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-en-za libreoffice-l10n-ja
   mythes-en-au openoffice.org-hyphenation
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
   dconf-cli gir1.2-ibus-1.0 ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 libibus-1.0-5
Suggested packages:
   ibus-clutter ibus-doc ibus-qt4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   dconf-cli gir1.2-ibus-1.0 ibus ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 libibus-1.0-5
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 400 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,320 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libibus-1.0-5 i386 
1.5.5-1ubuntu3
   Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main dconf-cli i386 0.20.0-1
   Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main gir1.2-ibus-1.0 
i386 1.5.5-1ubuntu3
   Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main ibus i386 
1.5.5-1ubuntu3
   Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main ibus-gtk i386 
1.5.5-1ubuntu3
   Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main ibus-gtk3 i386 
1.5.5-1ubuntu3
   Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'
E: Failed to fetch 
http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ibus/libibus-1.0-5_1.5.5-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 
Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch 
http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/d-conf/dconf-cli_0.20.0-1_i386.deb 
Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch 
http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ibus/gir1.2-ibus-1.0_1.5.5-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 
Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch 
http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ibus/ibus_1.5.5-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 
Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch 
http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ibus/ibus-gtk_1.5.5-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 
Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'

E: Failed to fetch 
http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/ibus/ibus-gtk3_1.5.5-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 
Could not resolve 'jp.archive.ubuntu.com'

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with 
--fix-missing?
thomas at einklang:~$ ^C

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This happened with THREE different distros:
1)    Tuxtrans (which is what I really wanted to use, but there are 
apparently other things broken too), freshly downloaded + installed
2)    Ubuntu 14.04, freshly downloaded + installed
3)    Xubuntu 14.04, freshly downloaded + installed

Next I will try to find out about this "launchpad" thing ...
Thomas