I updated from 11.1 to 11.2. Before some intelligent person says, I should never update but do a new install: a new install isn’t better, then I have other problems to tackle. And I really would like updates to work.
Well, I have the following problems and I hope you don’t mind me listing them all in one post *it’s difficult for me to type on this keyboard layout):
home isn’t found or set up. I have modified fstab to mount /dev/sda6, which is home, but it won’t mount it at startup, and also not when it’s just using the disk/by-id line that had been put in.
the keyboard layout is american, while the system language is set to German (I’m German and would like also my keyboard to know that). I had no chance to change that, even a loadkeys de-latin1 doesn’t help.
OpenOffice drives me crazy. It just doesn’t start properly, or at all. It doesn’t open a number of documents, but it doesn’t also give any error message. Sometimes soffice.bin is in the list of processes, but OOo is nowhere seen. After killing the process (or terminating it), I can start it, but have only the opening screen and cannot really open a document.
printing doesn’t seem to work, either.
Needless to say that everything worked fine before the update.
I know, it’s all my fault, but I don’t know how I did it (except that I chose an option that was offered by the installation program). Any help will be appreciated.
Sorry, I missed your mentioning becoming su. Here it is:
Platte /dev/sda: 750.2 GByte, 750156374016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 91201 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6314 50717173+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 6315 91201 681854827+ 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sda5 6315 6750 3502138+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 6751 91201 678352626 83 Linux
Platte /dev/sdb: 500.1 GByte, 500107862016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 60801 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcb05b6a4
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux
Platte /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GByte, 1000204886016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 121601 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5794ae44
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 121601 976760001 83 Linux
Platte /dev/sdd: 250.1 GByte, 250059350016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 30401 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e3e38
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 7113 57135141 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 19013 30401 91482142+ f W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/sdd3 7114 19012 95578717+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdd5 30400 30401 16033+ 14 Verst. FAT16 <32M
/dev/sdd6 19014 30399 91458013+ 83 Linux
Partitionstabelleneinträge sind nicht in Platten-Reihenfolge
Any idea about the keyboard problem? I relly get crazy, searching for the right keys (I used to type on English keyboards many years ago, but since 1999 I live in a German environment again and need to have all the German Umlauts etc).
Thanks for your prompt help! I try the fstab changes.
I don’t know how, but the keyboard problem seems to be solved, too. After another restart it just worked. Before, I had installed some software which added a number of packages for dependencies, maybe among them was the package that did the necessary.
There German was set as the default language. Everything else was in German. Anyway, it works now.
Open Office
Try deleting the .oo3 folder in hidden /home
or start writer from a terminal with: oowriter
report any output from the terminal
There is no output whatsoever from the terminal. The splash screen appears, then disappears after the app seems to be loaded, and that’s it. soffice is seen as a process in the process list, but not available on the GUI (also not in the windows list etc.).
Removing .oo3 didn’t change a thing.
OK, I did all that, not really sure, what I was doing, but let’s see. I hope I find all the apps that I used to use. That is the main reason why I do not like a complete new installation. I have added a number of useful apps which are not available in the regular repositories. Anyway, for stability’s sake I’ll give it a try and will see how far I can go. At least I could start OpenOffice, but it looks a bit odd. But maybe that’s just because of different version etc. Or it is because it seems to be very slow. The gui builds up slowly, some elements are missing… basically, the entire bottom line doesn’t show. But maybe that comes back some day…
Basically you just about borked your system with the repo setup you had. IMO you will probably end up doing a new install unless you have sufficient knowledge of how to stabilize everything. I’m guessing, but I think you probably have a lot of orphaned packages. They will show up Red in Software Management and have no provider.
