Hi Bill! Anno domini 2024 Sat, 13 Jul 00:44:10 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > The electric power went out in my building overnight while I was asleep, > having left my laptop running, and when I awoke I couldn't boot it up again, > but was forced to reinstall my system. (And here was I just congratulating > myself on having gone about 8 months without any major changes, much less > disasters.) If the power loss causes you to reinstall the system then most likely you have a faulty hardware :( > My installation did not go well. Maybe it's because I hadn't done it in > awhile; as well as the fact that I am too busy to be bothered with this crap > just now, yet I still need a working machine in order to keep my life > together. In all, I think I tried 11 times (yes, eleven!) to get my system > reinstalled and reconfigured. It doesn't go so well when there are other > important matters that also claim my attention. > > The problems with reinstallation do not seem to involve Trinity as such. For > some unknown reason, the XFCE desktop has messed up my settings, so that I > was unable to find my network, etc.; so instead, I used MATE to finish the > installation, then installed my TDE packages. After I got to that stage, I > was back in familiar territory, and all seemed to be going well.... > > Anyway, so I got it up and running, everything looks right, just finishing up, > installing all those other packages that can wait. > > And now, I get this weird error message: > > sudo apt-get -f install > apt-get: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-private.so.0.0: > undefined symbol: _ZN11pkgDepCache24IncreaseActionGroupLevelEv, version > APTPKG_6.0 > > I don't know what this means, and I am unable to use apt utilities, apt-get, > aptitude, etc. I can still install packages using dpkg, but without knowing > how to solve this problem, it seems pointless to keep on trying to make it > work. Oh oh ... your installed apt library is failty. I suspect eiter your harddrive is failing - or you mainboard has an issue - or your ram is faulty. What does "dmesg -w" say when you do stuff? > After 11 attempts at reinstallation throughout today, I am at my wits' end, > and really do not want to undertake yet another reinstallation. If anybody > knows of a way to solve this issue, I will be for ever grateful. If you feel up to an adventure you could try my devuan ceres liveiso + installer. It's based on refracta and comes with all the firmware blobs you might need (and TDE): ISO: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/ceres-20240326.iso SHA256: 1a99aac13d08df5949ba4ad410dfbbc8bc35bcff6a9a55d9b4cd48fd6a12e957 I haven't uploaded the lastest version yet (dark theme not done yet), so it's still from 2024/04/04 but should do. At least you can figure out what's going on with your system. Oh, you might want to select englisch localisation in the boot menu (default is DE, the 3rd option is RU). Nik > > Bill > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
