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Gnome Update Error?
Gnome Update Error?
Hello,
I have recently updated my GNOME installation from 3.x to 3.14. Suddenly, there are many glitches. The power buttons on the power menu does nothing, I am forced to shut down via the terminal, everything goes black every now and again, and there is a weird colour pattern behind some icons when I hover over them. But most importantly, the icons and text do not show up on the "Activities -> Show Applications -> All" menu. They still there, as you can see the opening animation before they disappear, and I can click on them, but you just can't see them. The "Frequent" menu works fine. Here is a YouTube video I have made to explain my problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGFpGJ9JhjA
Cheers,
Eddie.
P.S. Yes, I did change the icons, but this was after these problems started happening, and so it should be un-related.
I have recently updated my GNOME installation from 3.x to 3.14. Suddenly, there are many glitches. The power buttons on the power menu does nothing, I am forced to shut down via the terminal, everything goes black every now and again, and there is a weird colour pattern behind some icons when I hover over them. But most importantly, the icons and text do not show up on the "Activities -> Show Applications -> All" menu. They still there, as you can see the opening animation before they disappear, and I can click on them, but you just can't see them. The "Frequent" menu works fine. Here is a YouTube video I have made to explain my problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGFpGJ9JhjA
Cheers,
Eddie.
P.S. Yes, I did change the icons, but this was after these problems started happening, and so it should be un-related.
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Please describe in as much detail as possible how exactly you did this.eddowii wrote:I have recently updated my GNOME installation from 3.x to 3.14.
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
IIRC, I tried to install Fritzing, (using sudo apt-get install Fritzing) and it said it required libglib2.0-0, and so I tried to install that, using sudo apt-get again. Unfortunately, there was an error, it said that it conflicted with glib-networking, so I removed said application. I rebooted, and GNOME did not work. I mean, it was like GNOME was not installed. (on a side-note, startx has never done anything) So I did "sudo apt-get install gnome" and reinstalled GNOME.
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Please post the output of:
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cat /etc/apt/sources.list
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
apt-cache policy
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Here's the result, sorry for the delay.
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eddie@BOYSDEB:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20150110-13:31]/ wheezy main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20150110-13:31]/ wheezy main
# deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
#Edited on 10 APR 2015 15:47
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
#Done Editing.
deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main
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eddie@BOYSDEB:~$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d
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dropbox.list.save webupd8team-java.list
gnome3-team-gnome3-wheezy.list webupd8team-java.list.save
google-chrome.list webupd8team-java-wheezy.list
google-chrome.list.save webupd8team-java-wheezy.list.save
mono-xamarin.list webupd8team-popcorntime.list
mono-xamarin.list.save webupd8team-popcorntime.list.save
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eddie@BOYSDEB:~$ apt-cache policy
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Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/popcorntime/ubuntu/ trusty/main Translation-en
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/popcorntime/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
release v=14.04,o=LP-PPA-webupd8team-popcorntime,a=trusty,n=trusty,l=Popcorn Time,c=main
origin ppa.launchpad.net
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/ trusty/main Translation-en
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
release v=14.04,o=LP-PPA-webupd8team-java,a=trusty,n=trusty,l=Oracle Java (JDK) 7 / 8 / 9 Installer PPA,c=main
origin ppa.launchpad.net
500 http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Xamarin,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Xamarin-Stable,c=main
origin download.mono-project.com
500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages
release v=1.0,o=Google, Inc.,a=stable,n=stable,l=Google,c=main
origin dl.google.com
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main Translation-en
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
release v=7.8,o=Debian,a=oldstable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
release v=6.0.10,o=Debian,a=oldoldstable,n=squeeze,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.de.debian.org
500 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-backports/main Translation-en
100 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ wheezy-backports/main i386 Packages
release o=Debian Backports,a=wheezy-backports,n=wheezy-backports,l=Debian Backports,c=main
origin cdn.debian.net
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free Translation-en
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main Translation-en
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib Translation-en
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free i386 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=oldstable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib i386 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=oldstable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages
release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=oldstable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=main
origin security.debian.org
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free Translation-en
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main Translation-en
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib Translation-en
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free i386 Packages
release o=Debian,a=oldstable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.debian.org
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib i386 Packages
release o=Debian,a=oldstable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.debian.org
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main i386 Packages
release o=Debian,a=oldstable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.debian.org
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable/non-free Translation-en
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable/main Translation-en
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable/contrib Translation-en
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable/non-free i386 Packages
release v=8.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.uk.debian.org
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable/contrib i386 Packages
release v=8.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.uk.debian.org
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable/main i386 Packages
release v=8.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.uk.debian.org
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
You have lots of Ubuntu PPAs -- this is a bad idea.
You have "Stable" in your sources.list as well as "Wheezy" and this means you now have a mixed Wheezy & Jessie system (Jessie transferred to Stable last weekend); and Squeeze as well -- quite a combination.
Please read the bottom link in my signature.
You will probably have to re-install -- I have no experience of fixing FrankenDebian systems...
Perhaps a more expert forum member will be able to offer more help.
You have "Stable" in your sources.list as well as "Wheezy" and this means you now have a mixed Wheezy & Jessie system (Jessie transferred to Stable last weekend); and Squeeze as well -- quite a combination.
Please read the bottom link in my signature.
You will probably have to re-install -- I have no experience of fixing FrankenDebian systems...
Perhaps a more expert forum member will be able to offer more help.
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Arrrgh! It burns mine eyes!
You should probably reinstall, it'll be a lot easier.
I'm no expert either, but if you want to try to recover it, basically back up your data, run
(you might need to exchange 'jessie' for 'stable', depends if it follows the sources, I don't know) and uninstall anything that shows up. There might be some bits you can't uninstall, maybe you can use 'apt-get -t stable install <package>' to up/downgrade them, if not leave them for now.
Then remove everything from the sources apart from Jessie, try to complete an upgrade to Jessie (check the release notes). Then repeat the process of trying to remove anything that isn't from Jessie.
But yeah, I'd call it a learning experience and reinstall. And never make a Frankendebian again.
You should probably reinstall, it'll be a lot easier.
I'm no expert either, but if you want to try to recover it, basically back up your data, run
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apt-show-versions | grep -v stable | grep -v 'not installed'
Then remove everything from the sources apart from Jessie, try to complete an upgrade to Jessie (check the release notes). Then repeat the process of trying to remove anything that isn't from Jessie.
But yeah, I'd call it a learning experience and reinstall. And never make a Frankendebian again.
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Thanks, however I already fixed this myself before reading your post. I did:
And then I installed burg.
Afterwards, I removed all of the UBUNTU PPAs, and all of the unnecessary sources.
My sources list is now the following:
P.S. I am not a n00b, I just haven't needed to use this forum before.
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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Afterwards, I removed all of the UBUNTU PPAs, and all of the unnecessary sources.
My sources list is now the following:
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##
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 2$
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 2$
# deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
#Edited on 10 APR 2015 15:47
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Your sources.list says otherwise ...eddowii wrote:P.S. I am not a n00b,
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Yeah, good luck with that...eddowii wrote:Thanks, however I already fixed this myself before reading your post. I did:Code: Select all
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
I did not edit that file. I genuinely have no idea why the file was in that state.dilberts_left_nut wrote:Your sources.list says otherwise ...eddowii wrote:P.S. I am not a n00b,
Re: Gnome Update Error?
It worked, and I am now fixed.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Yeah, good luck with that...eddowii wrote:Thanks, however I already fixed this myself before reading your post. I did:Code: Select all
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Re: Gnome Update Error?
And you think it is a good idea to run without security support?eddowii wrote:Thanks, however I already fixed this myself before reading your post. I did:And then I installed burg.Code: Select all
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Afterwards, I removed all of the UBUNTU PPAs, and all of the unnecessary sources.
My sources list is now the following:P.S. I am not a n00b, I just haven't needed to use this forum before.Code: Select all
## # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 2$ # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 2$ # deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main #Edited on 10 APR 2015 15:47 deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
Also, since having "stable" instead of the release name, formerly wheezy, now jessie, was the root cause of your problem, you did not think to correct this? Sure, the next jump to stretch is years down the road, but still...
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Re: Gnome Update Error?
I hereby announce my intent to plagiarize, er, I mean, re-use, this image at every opportunity.eddowii wrote:
Re: Gnome Update Error?
fireExit wrote:And you think it is a good idea to run without security support?eddowii wrote:Thanks, however I already fixed this myself before reading your post. I did:And then I installed burg.Code: Select all
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Afterwards, I removed all of the UBUNTU PPAs, and all of the unnecessary sources.
My sources list is now the following:P.S. I am not a n00b, I just haven't needed to use this forum before.Code: Select all
## # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 2$ # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.8.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 2$ # deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main #Edited on 10 APR 2015 15:47 deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free