[Nottingham] KDE weirdness

[stripes theotoky]

Slight advance with this.

Removing packages libmjpegtools-2.0-0 and transcode allowed me to run
apt-get -f install which sorted out 6 packages.

I have posted on the Debian forums a request for someone to run ls -alR
/var and send me the output so I can reset ownership and file permissions
to sort out the problems with exim4 and postgresql.

memtest+ and fsck don't seem to have any problems with the system.

So I really don't know what is going on. Startx still won't run and xinit
gives me an xterm in which I can run programs at about 1/4 of screen.

Odd

Stripes

On 26 July 2013 14:20, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> On 26/07/13 09:48, stripes wrote:
>
> > /var/log/exim4 Permission denied creating spool file so ownership and /
> > or permissions are screwed up for exim and maybe for /var generally.
> >
> > apt-get -f install wants to install these
> >
> > liblavfile-2.0-0, liblavjpeg-2.0-0, liblavplay-2.0-0,
> > libmjpegutils-2.0-0, libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0, libmplex2-2.0-0
> >
> > but is unable to do so as everything is also reported as being in
> libmjpegtools.
>
> Are you suffering a corrupt filesystem that has been remounted as
> read-only?...
>
>
> For such strangeness, I'd suggest running a Memtest86+ check on your
> computer and then running a filesystem check on all your partitions.
>
> Running a backup to ensure your data is safe is a very good idea...
>
>
> Let us know what you find,
>
> Good luck!
> Martin
>
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