Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-14 15:40 (UTC-0800):
Felix Miata wrote:
_ZN9KListView9selectAllEb is C++ symbol mangling of KListView::selectAll which sounds like a common standard KDE function so I checked the common standard KDE library package first. I already knew its name from many installs over the years.
Likely a combination of user error and package mangler error. I had tried to update to v14, but after an hour of seeing upgrade candidate messages scroll up the screen without noticing evidence of actual progress, I Ctrl-C'd out, restored the old sources.list, and from there dont' remember what I did and didn't do. I've since done an update that included somewhere between 250 & 300 packages, and all seems good now with that installation.
Ah yes, that could leave things in a bad state. I suggest you run the following (all on one line) to look for other possible problems:
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE} ${VERSION} ${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep -v 'install ok installed'
Of 148 lines of output, 147 looked like this one: deinstall ok config-files libweather-ion4a 4:4.4.5-7+squeeze1 amd64
The other is this: install ok half-configured linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-48squeeze6 amd64
The latter is not unexpected, given its routine of not completing linux-image installation.
Repeating that command without the grep produced 0 lines not containing ok, 1923 total lines.
Mouse pointer and sound card problems are outside my area of expertise. Hopefully somebody else can help you with those.
I gave up trying to "fix" the mouse pointer. I made it work by deleting most of the content of .kde/share/config/, kde4 configs, gnome/gtk configs, and the caches to more or less emulate a virgin user. Sound I "fixed" by installing the PCI Audigy Sound Blaster that had been used with the old motherboard. With that installed, sound simply works without me having had to do configuring.