13 Jul
2024
13 Jul
'24
2:04 p.m.
On Saturday 13 July 2024 06:17:43 Steven D'Aprano via tde-users wrote:
No, I did not say that. The installation never completed properly, so that I
cannot boot into the new system. Only this last time, it finally completed,
and I could boot into the new system, then finish installing my TDE packages.
And everything seemed to be going fine, all looked normal, until this
happened. If I recall, I was trying to install some text editors. Nothing
special, I have done this a thousand times, probably in my sleep a few times,
and never had any problems like this.
Installations in general have been getting weird, even though, once installed,
I rarely need to reinstall or make any major changes. As I said earlier, it
has been about 8 months since I last had to reinstall my system.
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 12:44:10AM -0700, William
Morder via tde-users
wrote:
What happens if you just install everything according
to the defaults,
without your customisations? Does it still break?
Actually, I don't "customize" until I get into the Trinity Desktop; and
then,
yes, I have been known to do a bit of customization. Maybe even more than
just a bit.
The problem is that whatever I do in XFCE gets saved as a session, even though
I did not wish to save it. I would rather that XFCE just stays plain vanilla;
not because I like it, but because I would rather not have this mess.
If I have some time later this evening, I will try to track down any
configuration settings for XFCE, and delete (or at least rename) those
folders, and maybe that will restore XFCE to normal.
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.;
Are you suggesting that *out of the box* the installer installs XFCE
settings that are broken? And has done so eleven times in a row?
Where are you getting the installer from? Is the media
faulty?
I don't get this same error each time; only got it the last time, when at last
I succeeded in getting the system installed.
Part of this may be due to other factors: the power going out in the middle of
the night, so that the machine shut down when I wasn't aware what was
happening, and the internet has been unstable now for maybe 6 months, but I
have no control over that.
Thanks for the links. That was my next step, before I attempt anything more,
and it will have to wait until this evening.
Bill
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
Googling finds:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1469908/error-apt-symbol-lookup-error-lib-x
86-64-linux-gnu-libapt-private-so-0-0-und
https://serverfault.com/questions/246613/suddenly-get-apt-get-symbol-lookup
-error-when-using-apt-get
But honestly if you have installed the system from scratch eleven times,
and get this error each time, that suggests your installer is broken,
or you are starting to suffer hardware issues.