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wavey234
November 28th, 2010, 08:37 PM
hi guys

i recently got a server and it was going fantastically well, but just recently when i tried installing something using apt-get install .... ( i tried irssi, firefox/iceweseal, tightvncserver) it downloads asks for a questions i press y for yess then i get this error

E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on mountall

and then it doesnt install, this is really frustrating.

any help would be much appreciated

thank you

sikander3786
November 28th, 2010, 08:40 PM
Welcome to the forums :-)

Please try and post the output of


sudo apt-get install -f


sudo dpkg --configure -a

ajgreeny
November 28th, 2010, 09:12 PM
You say this is a server; do you have a GUI desktop installed?

If not those applications will not install, or if they do, they will also bring with them the numerous packages required to enable a GUI, eg gnome.

wavey234
November 28th, 2010, 09:35 PM
i dont think i have GUI desktop installed, just ubuntu server. is it easy to install a GUI desktop??

the outputs to those commads:



root@ns213899:~# sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 311 not upgraded.



and the other one didnt produce any output

sikander3786
November 28th, 2010, 09:47 PM
i dont think i have GUI desktop installed, just ubuntu server. is it easy to install a GUI desktop??

Do you really want to add a GUI? What are your hardware specs? What is this server intended for? If a critical one, I would advise to leave it as is...

Not too difficult I believe.


sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade


sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

ajgreeny
November 28th, 2010, 09:50 PM
Well, with no desktop environment (gnome/kde/xfce/lxde etc etc) you will not get firefox/iceweasel to work as it's a graphical application, but I've no idea about the others you asked about.

wavey234
November 28th, 2010, 10:04 PM
well are there any other options to get firefox/iceweasl, also irssi i thought that was a command line irc, surely that should work?

i googled gui dekstop and i have heard people say its heavy on the cpu and a waste. would i be better off installling another distro. i only want gui to vnc into the server and use firefox and then irssi as well?



here are the specs



Processor Intel Xeon i7 W3520
4x 2.66+ GHz
8 Mb L2 - QPI 4.8 GT/sec
(http://www.intel.com/technology/turboboost/)Architecture64 bits RAM 12 GB DDR3 Hard disk 2x 1500 GB - SATA2

sikander3786
November 28th, 2010, 10:10 PM
Processor Intel Xeon i7 W3520
4x 2.66+ GHz
8 Mb L2 - QPI 4.8 GT/sec
Architecture64 bits RAM 12 GB DDR3 Hard disk 2x 1500 GB - SATA2

That is a damn powerful machine :P

What are you using it for currently? That should not feel the load of GUI at all :-)

Somebody else will have to reply the issue regarding vnc etc. No experience with that :-(

wavey234
November 28th, 2010, 10:23 PM
i use it for multiple things tbh, game server the main use.

i think that the vnc requires a gui, i hope lol

so if i install the gui it wont effect the performance of my server??

sikander3786
November 28th, 2010, 10:27 PM
i use it for multiple things tbh, game server the main use.

i think that the vnc requires a gui, i hope lol

so if i install the gui it wont effect the performance of my server??
I can't say exactly.... It is capable of doing something bad....

Please wait for some consensus to develop. Wait for some other replies.

wavey234
November 29th, 2010, 02:30 AM
someone told me about fluxbox so everything is fine now

thank you :D

its solved