Destroyed my Xandros? Library problems?

**multimolti** · 06-22-2008

Hi
I installed some apps for Debian on my Xandros computer, and now apt-get won't work any more. There is a problem with the libvolume-id0 library.
When I try to install anything using "apt-get install xyz", I get this message:

Code:

You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  hal: Depends: libvolume-id0 (>= 0.103-1) but it is not going to be installed

And when I run "apt-get -f install" then, I get this:

Code:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  libvolume-id0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libvolume-id0
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 201 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/62.5kB of archives.
After unpacking 123kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 83637 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libvolume-id0 (from .../libvolume-id0_0.105-4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libvolume-id0_0.105-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/lib/libvolume_id.so.0', which is also in package udev
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libvolume-id0_0.105-4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Now I was angry and deleted all these libvolume files in the /lib folder, but it didn't help :P

What can I do? Would really like to install new applications...

**arielby** · 06-22-2008

Reinstall Debian, and you will have to do this alot of times (my experience).

**multimolti** · 06-22-2008

=( I don't want... and can't :P
My laptop has no CD drive, and I have no external one...

**devils casper** · 06-23-2008

Execute this

Code:

su -
apt-get clean all
apt-get update

Does it throw any error message?

**multimolti** · 06-23-2008

The update gives me just the normal errors I get whenever I update, because of some missing keys...

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
W: GPG error: http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

The cleanup doesn't output anything, but the libvolume still makes problems.

**arielby** · 06-23-2008

Originally Posted by multimolti

=( I don't want... and can't :P
My laptop has no CD drive, and I have no external one...

A laptop w/o CD Drive? I didn't know that some laptops don't have Laptop?

How you installed Linux?

**Manchunian** · 06-23-2008

He didn't install Linux; it came pre-installed on his ultra-small laptop, probably an EEPC. And a re-install should be the very last alternative: you learn asolutely nothing by re-installing everytime you have a slight problem.

multimolti: try importing the keys. Run the following as root:

Code:

wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | apt-key add -

Once done, do (as root)

Code:

apt-get update

**multimolti** · 06-23-2008

Hmm, I did what you wrote, but after updating, I still get the same errors, and that won't help me with this libvolume thing...

And yes, I have the Eee PC... I could reinstall Xandros by pressing F10 while booting (system recovery), but I think it can't be that the linux gets screwed totally without any way of rescuing...

**Segfault** · 06-23-2008

If you ran into problems after installing some Debian packages then I'd say you better remove them, should be possible to force uninstall with dpkg.

**Manchunian** · 06-24-2008

multimolti: how did you install libvolume-id0? Did you use apt-get? If so, I think I'd uninstall it by re-installing it first. This is because I suspect you've made a bit of a mess by deleting things manually and dpkg might not be able to find the culprit. Re-install with synaptic, then un-install with synaptic and run the commands Devils Casper listed earlier.
However, I suspect you didn't install with synaptic as apt get wouldn't have made a mess of your system. Did you do this manually, as if you were on a Windows machine?

EDIT: here's something else I'd like to verify. Are you, by any chance, running a root session, like an administrator session in Windows?

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