Bizarre problems in Hardy - system broke fsck this AM, no nvidia anymore

[David Fox]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Mumia W.

 > The program debsums can help you find out what installed packages have
> changed or corrupted files.

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately there are a lot of packages that
are missing md5sums, and there are missing files. I think one of the
problem files was /usr/share/debhelper, so I reinstalled that package
and got some of the files back, but not all of them.

I guess I should aptitude reinstall anything that doesn't have md5sums
to be safe.



debsums: no md5sums for at
debsums: no md5sums for base-files
debsums: no md5sums for binutils
debsums: no md5sums for binutils-static
debsums: no md5sums for bogofilter
debsums: no md5sums for bzip2
debsums: can't open cups-pdf file /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
(Permission denied)
debsums: can't open cupsys file /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/ipp
(Permission denied)
debsums: can't open cupsys file /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/lpd
(Permission denied)
debsums: can't open defoma file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-defoma (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open defoma file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-defoma-hints (No such file
or directory)
debsums: can't open defoma file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postrm-defoma (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open defoma file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-defoma (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open defoma file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-defoma-hints (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open defoma file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-defoma2 (No such file or
directory)
debsums: no md5sums for dosfstools
debsums: no md5sums for ed
debsums: no md5sums for g++
debsums: no md5sums for gawk
debsums: no md5sums for gnupg
debsums: no md5sums for gpgv
debsums: can't open ia32-libs file
/usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa (No such file or directory)
debsums: no md5sums for initscripts
debsums: no md5sums for java-gcj-compat
debsums: no md5sums for klogd
debsums: no md5sums for lib32ncurses5
debsums: no md5sums for libaudio-dev
debsums: no md5sums for libaudio2

There are more files that it says can't open on

debsums: can't open tex-common file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postrm-tex (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open tex-common file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-tex (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open tex-common file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postrm-texlsr (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open tex-common file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-texlsr (No such file or
directory)

ebsums: can't open xml-core file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-xmlcatalog (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open xml-core file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postrm-xmlcatalog (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open xml-core file
/usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-xmlcatalog (No such file or
directory)
debsums: no md5sums for xorg
debsums: no md5sums for xserver-xorg
debsums: can't open xserver-xorg-core file
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (No such file or
directory)
debsums: can't open xserver-xorg-core file
/usr/lib/nvidia/libglx.so.xserver-xorg-core (No such file or
directory)

That last bit might be due to the broken nvidia x-server.

I tried to reinstall by doing a purge on nvidia-glx-new, followed by a
reinstall on nvdia-kernel-source, module-assistant auto-install
nvidia-kernel-source and finally an aptitude install nvidia-glx-new.

I've also attempted to install the nvidia-173 file from nvidia's
website. Still no go, as I have no GLX anymore and can only use the nv
driver. The nvidia driver fails to load. Unless I go into xorg.conf
and comment out nvidia for nv, the best I can hope for is either "no
screens found" or some pathetic low resolution (like lower than
800x600).

These are the ones that failed:

/usr/lib/libkopete.so.1.0.0                                               FAILED
/usr/lib/libarts_mpeglib-0.3.0.so.0.0.3                                   FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.pcimap                             FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.dep                                FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.ieee1394map                        FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.usbmap                             FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.isapnpmap                          FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.inputmap                           FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.seriomap                           FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.alias                              FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/modules.symbols                            FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.pcimap                             FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.dep                                FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.ieee1394map                        FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.usbmap                             FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.isapnpmap                          FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.inputmap                           FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.seriomap                           FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.alias                              FAILED
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/modules.symbols                            FAILED
/usr/include/GL/gl.h                                                      FAILED
/usr/include/GL/glext.h                                                   FAILED
/usr/include/GL/glx.h                                                     FAILED
/usr/include/GL/glxext.h                                                  FAILED
/usr/bin/noatuntippecanoe.bin                                             FAILED
/usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh                                             FAILED
/usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig                                                   FAILED
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so                               FAILED
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-xconfig.1.gz                                   FAILED
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings                                                  FAILED
/usr/share/applications/nvidia-settings.desktop                           FAILED
/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1.gz                                  FAILED

nvidia stuff may have failed because I installed the binary package, right?