<div>On 18/01/2008, Patrick Mooney <<a href="mailto:pmooney78@yahoo.com">pmooney78@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Good morning, I'm a new Xubuntu user migrating from Windows 2000. I'm having several problems, one of which results in a message asking me to report an error. If I'm reporting to the wrong place, my apologies in advance; please let me know where I should report the error to. (I don't subscribe to the xubuntu-devel list, myself.)</blockquote><div> Basically, when you found a bug in Xubuntu, you report it at <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/"> https://bugs.launchpad.net/</a>. For usage problems, you can use the xubuntu-users mailinglist: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> You can send replies there, I'm also subscribed to that. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The problem is this: I am unable to install any new packages through any of the package management software. The update manager is able to do its job with no problem (I've updated 94 packages since installing yesterday), but trying to install or uninstall packages through the Synaptic package manager or the System -> Add/Remove... menu item is not successful. I can bring up Add/Remove...,it allows me to browse for new software and select it, or see what I have installed an attempt to uninstall it, but actually attempting to make a change (I've tried ten or twelve times, with different combinations of software to [un]install ... from one package to twenty) inevitably results in the following error message: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. E: _cache-> open() failed, please report. I get the same message immediately after typing my administrative password when I try to bring up the Synaptic package manager. A window appears in the background, the error message pops up, and Synaptic closes. It's that last line that's resulted in this report. I'm running Xubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22.4-14.10, xfce 4.4.1, on a Pentium III 550MHz machine that dual-boots Xubuntu GNU/Linux and Win2000 (which I can't get my girlfriend to give up ... yet). I realize that the first line of the error message is probably instructing me to run an application through the 'run program' dialog. I hit Alt-F2 to bring that up, and 'dpkg --configure -a' is already in the argument field. I hit OK and nothing perceptible happens.</blockquote><div> That is because that command needs "root"-privileges. Try running gksudo "dpkg --configure -a" That will ask for your password, in order to run is as root. That should solve the problem. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I try again with the "Run in Terminal Mode" box checked and ... I have the same problem I always have when trying to run anything in terminal mode ... which brings me to ... Other problems I'm having 1. I can't bring up a terminal window. I've been trying to do so as described in chapter 5 of the online Xubuntu documentation, and neither of the following methods work: "Choose Applications → Accessories → Terminal; or press Alt+F2 and type xfce4-terminal." Both result in the same thing: I hear the monitor click as the graphics card switches back into a text mode. Before the monitor warms back up enough to see what's going on, it switches modes again I see the login screen, just like when I first boot up.</blockquote><div> Sorry, can't help you with that :( </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2. I had a problem yesterday caused by Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks. On the "compositor" tab, I checked "enable display compositing, and got a blank tan screen (like when I first log in). Unlike my initial login experience, though, it doesn't disappear after a few seconds. I waited patiently for several minutes ... still nothing. I rebooted, logged in again ... still just a tan screen. I left it there while I took a shower and went to the store ... still a tan screen. I eventually reinstalled by booting from the Live CD I initially installed from. The few lines mentioning the compositor settings in the documentation lead me to believe it might be a display driver problem, so I'll mention that my graphics card is an Intel 82810E. I think it's built in to the motherboard.</blockquote><div> Your graphics card needs to support compositing. I'm not sure whether yours does. Most people whose graphics card support compositing first need to enable a restricted ( i.e. not open source) drive through Applications->System->Restricted Drivers Manager, but I believe Intel provided good open source drivers, so if you can't find a driver through Restricted Drivers Manager, then I'm afraid your card doesn't support it. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thank you in advance for any help! Sincerely, Patrick Mooney </blockquote></div> Good luck, -- Vincent