Posts: 16
trudeal
Joined: 22 Oct 2010
#1
Hi,

I am running AntiX 2.6.32.1 and GNOME 2.30.2 on an IBM Thinkpad A20m.
I installed AntiX on this computer a few months ago and everything was working great.
I am a user with relatively little Linux experience, so please consider this in your response.
I have recently used the Synaptics package manager to upgrade all packages.
Since then, I have been running into a number of problems:
1- I have lost the icon on the top right that allows to select to close the session or shut down the computer. How do I get this back? In the system menu, I still have at the bottom the choice to close the session, but not to shut down the computer. If I log in as root, I can see the command to shut down the computer in the systems menu, but still, no icon at the top right to do this.
2- I cannot have access to any USB devices unless I am logged in as root.
3- When my daughter logs into her session, she does not have sound anymore. Sound is working all right in my session.
4- When I update the packages, I get an error message about the halevt package. Error 100. I see that other users have run into problems with this package during the last few months, but I have to admit that I do not understand what to do about this.
5- Final question: I can't see anymore how to add or remove users from the system...

Thanks for your help.
Posts: 16
trudeal
Joined: 22 Oct 2010
#2
Anyone?
Posts: 299
Cuttlefish
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
#3
Hi trudeal,
Looking at your post, I think that maybe you ran into trouble updating via Synaptic.

I log into the terminal as root and then type in
apt-get update

and then type in
apt-get dist-upgrade

I'm not sure how to fix your other issue except with a fresh install...Someone more knowledgeable than me may be able to help you there.

Dave
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#4
Firstly remove halevt with apt-get purge halevt.

In a terminal type apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Post the message here.

In a root terminal, type muser to correct the sound issue. You need to use the recover option (can't remember exactly as I removed the app)
Posts: 16
trudeal
Joined: 22 Oct 2010
#5
Thanks for the reply.
I purged halevt.
And here is what I get :

root@(none):/home/trudeau# apt-get purge halevt
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l’arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d’état... Fait
Les paquets suivants ont été installés automatiquement et ne sont plus nécessaires :
libwpd8c2a libwildmidi0 libusplash0 libqt4-assistant openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-filter-binfilter libdes425-3
libsoundtouch1c2 libtorrent11 openoffice.org-java-common lzma libwpg-0.1-1
libexiv2-6 libpsiconv6 libx264-88 libdmx1 libdirectfb-1.2-0
openoffice.org-style-galaxy libparted1.8-12 openoffice.org-math gs-common
libcelt0 libgtkimageview0 libdirac-decoder0 libgcj-common
openoffice.org-common libgirepository1.0-0 libedataserver1.2-11
mplayer-skin-blue ufraw python-iniparse usplash-theme-debian libwps-0.1-1
libgs8 openoffice.org-emailmerge libmpfr1ldbl libdb4.5 libservlet2.5-java
libvoikko1 libnice0 openoffice.org-calc libgupnp-igd-1.0-2
openoffice.org-l10n-fr libntfs-3g75
Veuillez utiliser « apt-get autoremove » pour les supprimer.
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :
halevt*
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 à enlever et 1 non mis à jour.
1 partiellement installés ou enlevés.
Après cette opération, 336 ko d’espace disque seront libérés.
Souhaitez-vous continuer [O/n] ? O
(Lecture de la base de données... 92356 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Suppression de halevt ...
* halevt is not running
Purge des fichiers de configuration de halevt ...
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour « install-info »...
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour « man-db »...
root@(none):/home/trudeau# muser
Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
root@(none):/home/trudeau# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Atteint
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167 ko réceptionnés en 20s (8 348 o/s)
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
W: Erreur de GPG : 
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stable InRelease : Les signatures suivantes n’ont pas pu être vérifiées car la clé publique n’est pas disponible : NO_PUBKEY 0393B8638C00FC18
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l’arbre des dépendances
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Calcul de la mise à jour... Fait
Les paquets suivants ont été conservés :
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour :
libnss3-1d libthai-data libthai0 tzdata tzdata-java
5 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 1 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 2 175 ko dans les archives.
Après cette opération, 32,8 ko d’espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Souhaitez-vous continuer [O/n] ? ^C
root@(none):/home/trudeau#
Posts: 40
clandestine
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
#6
apt-get --purge remove halevt
Posts: 16
trudeal
Joined: 22 Oct 2010
#7
Thanks everyone.
I enjoyed using AntiX for these past few months.
A really nice build.
But perhaps not user-friendly enough for inexperienced users such as myself.
I just installed Xubuntu and will see if I have more success.
Cheers