15 Dec
2014
15 Dec
'14
2:07 a.m.
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.
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