[SOLVED] Network manager messup

09-23-2008	#1 (permalink)
ONEother Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 13	[SOLVED] Network manager messup Just yesterday, after pulling a new laptop (with Hardy Heron on it) out of the box, I managed to run down the battery to nil -- during an update hand/forehead So after running dpkg on recovery mode, this is what I get Code: errors were encountered while processing: dbus dbus-xll evolution evolution-exchange evolution-plugins f-spot hal tracker libdeskbar-tracker network-manager E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) reading package lists... done building dependency tree reading state information... done calculating upgrade... done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 15 not fully installed or removed After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? So first, what does this mean, and second (I'm guessing closely related) why does network manager return a "you are not allowed to access" when I try to run it? Just a warning -- I'm a total newbie. Worked with Windows all my life and this is over my head.

09-23-2008

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Oh and further down, after telling it to go ahead, this turns up

Code:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
update-notifier depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure_:
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
dbus
dbus-xll
evolution
evolution-exchange
evolution-plugin
f-spot
hal
tracker
libdeskbar-tracker
network-manager
network-manager-gnome
policykit-gnome
rythmbox
tracker-search-tool
update-notifier
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Finished, please press ENTER

EDIT: Just found out that hibernate and suspend both fail.

Help?

It's new, I don't mind reinstalling Ubuntu if you tell me how.

09-24-2008	#3 (permalink)
waterhead Trusted Penguin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Franklin, Wisconsin Posts: 3,957	This doesn't really seem like a wireless problem, so I moved the thread to the Ubuntu section. I don't have an answer to your problem, but maybe someone in the Ubuntu section has run across this before. __________________ Paul Please do not PM me with requests for help. I will not reply.

09-24-2008	#4 (permalink)
ONEother Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 13	Fortunately, the first thing I did was to setup a rescue disk. I've now reinstalled Ubuntu (at factory settings) and no more problems.