On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:12:44 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/15/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Saturday 15 July 2006 21:05, you wrote: > >> On 7/15/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Saturday 15 July 2006 18:42, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >> > If synaptic has no way of setting package repositories (I use Kpackage > >> > which does), you'll need to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and put > >> > in the correct URLs. Make sure you follow the format of the existing > >> > entries, or read man sources.list for a description of how they work. > >> > >> The local file paths are incorrect as well... does that mean fixing > >> the URLs won't help until I fix those as well? > >> > >[...] > > > >I'm pretty sure that if all is working, the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ > >will > >take care of themselves - they get overwritten on each update. > > > >That said, it can't hurt to delete any files in > >/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ in > >case they are blocking the update somehow - I remember having that problem > >once. > > > >John > > > Wow. Does this ever end? > I realized I used the Italian example from the page you sent for > sarge, so I replaced it with a US site. Again and again, but under > "repositories," Synaptic still shows the Italian site over and over, > reboot after reboot (the US site in sources.list does not show up in > the repositories menu, and the Italian site is removed from it > completely). And then I checked the Italian site to see what version > of hotplug it has, and it is 0.0.20040329-22, and yet Synaptic is > STILL telling me: > "udev: > Depends: hotplug (>=0.0.20040329-17) but 0.0.20040329-16ubuntu17 is > to be installed" > > It is still using the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/, it hasn't updated > them, and there is nothing in /partial. > > I thought I was starting to understand this process, but either I'm > doing something wrong or Linux is. > After wrestling this for a few hours, I discovered that, on startup, > my screen res is wrong (I've read many times of this problem), but > it's actually higher than I want it. It chooses the highest, which my > video supports, but I keep selecting the next down and saying apply as > default, and it doesn't, and this is the only value I've ever > selected- it was defaulting to this for the past few days. > > And, after wrestling with apt for a few hours, around the same time as > the screen res thing, Linux has started opening two "Jack Audio > Connection Kit"s and a qjackctl when I start up. After boot, if I hit > alt-tab, I see 3 jacks. > I'm kind of speechless. > > I'm searching the files in the folder now and seeing the faulty info > on hotplug; but one of the other files has the correct, later version; > somehow it's only showing me the old one.
Whoa, you either have some hardware problem which makes your computer act in a semi-chaotic manner, or you are poking at too many things at once. I think you should ignore the resolution, jack, etc. problems for the moment and focus on the udev/hotplug thing first. (and maybe there is an apt configuration problem...) I propose that you do the following: 1) Run "apt-get update" as root. Does this work? If you get any error messages post them here. 2) Try "apt-get install -f" next. Post the entire output of this command. 3) Likewise, we need to know the result of "apt-cache policy hotplug udev". (You can run this command as a normal user.) 4) Finally, we need to know what you have in /etc/apt/sources.list. If you have the files /etc/apt/apt.conf and/or /etc/apt/preferences post their contents as well. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]