On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:43 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > > I have been wondering why I am having trouble setting up an HP > > > Parallel printer, and every time I try and install anything, like > > > cups, It terminates with an error due to acpi control. > > That's a bit vague. :-)
pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install cups [sudo] password for peterm: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done cups is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up acpi-support (0.136.1) ... update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/acpi-support missing LSB information update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts> update-rc.d: /etc/rc2.d: no such directory dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up winbind (2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1) ... update-rc.d: chdir /etc/rc1.d: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing winbind (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: acpi-support winbind E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ And this is after taking out that line in Grub. > > > > My grub file ends with a statement that I added a couple of months > > > ago: > > > > > > # added 22-6-10 to enable temperature sensors > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_enforce_resources=lax" > > > > Is anyone else having problems with ACPI control. I notice that it is > > an open bug to do with LSB bits. > > Have you a link or bug number? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1454106 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/305587 > > > I have just done a set of upgrades that ended with an error message > > about ACPI, but they have installed successfully. > > Again, it's hard to Google or search source code for that error message. > I suspect it is a knock-on effect from your "lax" boot option and you > may want to try not using that for a bit to see if your upgrades are > error-message free. > Error messags still there - see above. Peter -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
