New 14.04, update failed, now flakey

[lift_test]

Did a new dual boot Win7/14.04, all seemed Ok till I did an update which hung with blank screen and no signs of any activity at all. Hit reset after 15 minutes and appeared to boot OK. Have since tried to install a printer driver for a Brother HL2250DN, this hangs and sometimes gives an error sometimes just hangs till I reboot. Also tried installing XSANE scanner which didn't recogise the Epson V500 and crashed fairly quickly, saw a brief error mesage, some thing about post install log missing. Should I download latest instal and start again or can it be rescued?

[TheFu]

Can you please open a terminal and run
* sudo aptitude update
* sudo aptitude upgrade

If aptitude isn't there, try
* sudo apt-get install -f
to see if that finishes installing whatever didn't finish correctly.

Lastly, please copy/paste all commands and relevant output back here (use code tags please) if htere are issues.

[lift_test]

Thank you for your response. Not sure what this means, don't know how to say I'm root if that is needed.

vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo aptitude update
[sudo] password for vic:
sudo: aptitude: command not found
vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo: aptitude: command not found
vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libjpeg62
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 24 not to upgrade.
vic@AsusFast:~$ 0
0: command not found
vic@AsusFast:~$ apt-get autoremove
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
vic@AsusFast:~$

[Bucky Ball]

Okay, try this:


sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This will ONLY update and upgrade installed packages, not take you to the next release. You have a heap of stuff to update/upgrade (24 items by the looks of your output).

Post back any and all errors messages you may receive.

[TheFu]

2 different processes cannot be running using APT concurrently.

The 1st use of aptitude says you don't have it loaded.

The last use of autoremove was as a normal user, so it didn't work - must use sudo.

I'd strongly suggest it is time to gain a little more background knowledge on the system. Skim the first 100 pgs of this PDF: http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php so that little things like sudo aren't confusing anymore.

Anyway, it looks to me like there isn't any issue anymore with your APT db.
* install aptitude
* run an update
* run an upgrade
to be certain. Post any issues back here. thanks for using code tags. It helps.
Normal Ubuntu Maintenance requirements (http://blog.jdpfu.com/linsysmaint).

[lift_test]

Thank you, all the commands seemed to work OK. The last command produced this:
vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
I presume that this means any errors have been corrected?

vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
[sudo] password for vic:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
libjpeg62
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to remove and 24 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 207 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 201496 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libjpeg62:amd64 (6b1-4ubuntu1) ...
vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release
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Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Sources
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [59.7 kB]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release.gpg [933 B]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main i386 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports Release.gpg
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release
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Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Sources [46.3 kB]
Get:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release [59.7 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted Sources [14 B]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Sources [10.8 kB]
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports Release
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse Sources [700 B]
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Sources
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Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Sources
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 InRelease
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Sources
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en
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Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en_GB
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Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en_GB
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Get:18 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted Sources [1,408 B]
Get:19 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Sources [86.2 kB]
Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 Release
Get:20 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Sources [3,531 B]
Get:21 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages [337 kB]
Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib amd64 Packages
Get:22 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted amd64 Packages [5,820 B]
Get:23 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages [208 kB]
Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib i386 Packages
Get:24 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages [9,366 B]
Get:25 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main i386 Packages [331 kB]
Get:26 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted i386 Packages [5,820 B]
Get:27 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages [209 kB]
Get:28 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [9,532 B]
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Translation-en
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/main Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/multiverse Sources
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/restricted amd64 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/universe amd64 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/multiverse amd64 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/main i386 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/main Translation-en
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/multiverse Translation-en
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Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-backports/universe Translation-en
Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib Translation-en_GB
Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib Translation-en
Fetched 1,896 kB in 8s (224 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
apport apport-gtk file fonts-droid gir1.2-gudev-1.0 language-selector-common
language-selector-gnome libgudev-1.0-0 libmagic1 libpam-systemd
libsystemd-daemon0 libsystemd-journal0 libsystemd-login0 libudev1
libunity-control-center1 myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za mythes-en-us
openoffice.org-hyphenation python3-apport python3-problem-report
systemd-services udev unity-control-center
24 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 9,301 kB of archives.
After this operation, 39.9 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
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Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main udev amd64 204-5ubuntu20.7 [735 kB]
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Get:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main language-selector-gnome all 0.129.3 [18.6 kB]
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Get:13 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libsystemd-journal0 amd64 204-5ubuntu20.7 [49.6 kB]
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Get:16 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main apport all 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 [179 kB]
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Get:18 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main gir1.2-gudev-1.0 amd64 1:204-5ubuntu20.7 [5,486 B]
Get:19 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libunity-control-center1 amd64 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1 [80.8 kB]
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Get:23 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main openoffice.org-hyphenation all 0.7.1 [192 kB]
Get:24 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main unity-control-center amd64 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1 [725 kB]
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Setting up apport (2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5) ...
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Setting up libpam-systemd:amd64 (204-5ubuntu20.7) ...
systemd-logind start/running, process 13894
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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-36-generic
vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
vic@AsusFast:~$

[TheFu]

Yep - looks good.
If you use lvm or encryption, might be good to do some preventative maintenance now. Basically, /boot can fill up and only manually removing old kernels will work. A full /boot partition can be catastrophic - won't boot catastrophic.

[lift_test]

Thank you, all the commands seemed to work OK. The last command produced this:

vic@AsusFast:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
I presume that this means any errors have been corrected?

[lift_test]

Oh dear, I thought the long post hadn't worked. Thank you both for your help, I'll mark it as solved.

[Bucky Ball]

Hope all is good lift_test. Nice to see you appear to have things up and working as they should be. Good work. We are here to help. ;)

And yes, your output after those commands looks fine. Nothing to update/upgrade now. Run them periodically or use the Software Updater. It uses those commands 'automagically', but I prefer the terminal so I can get a better idea of what might go/be amiss.

Please feel welcome to post a new thread for any future issues.