Help me please!
Okay so I got Linux installed on my Dell laptop back in January of this year, and I am loving it so far! However, today I was letting it run some updates and without thinking I just shut down my laptop so I could go to work. Upon returning home I went to boot up my laptop and an error message popped up...I didn't think much of it at the time so I tried opening up Firefox, and an error message came up saying Server not found Firefox can't find the server at start.ubuntu.com. I also looked at my desktop and saw that it looked unusual as well. Where my icon for Skype and Steam were normally were replaced with Icons with a red circle and a line through it. And when I logged out of my laptop another whole error message came up.
(process:1892): GdkPixbuf-WARNING**: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/user/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory this likely means that your installation is broken. Try running command gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders>/user/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache to make things work for the time being. (process:2050):GdkPixbuf-WARNING**: Error loading xmp image loader:Image type xpm is not supported glmatrix: unable to initialize builtin texture xscreensaver:12:45:41 0: child pid 2059 glmatrix exited abnormally (code1) I tried entering the command to try and make things work but it didn't when i entered it in it just came up as not found or error. I really honestly don't know what to do anymore and most sites on google aren't helpful at all. I hope I am descriptive enough, and I am hoping someone on these forums could help...I'd greatly greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys! |
Do you have libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev installed?
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apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev Ninja edit: If you can, try to come up with a more descriptive title next time, as 'help me please' doesn't describe anything. Most people here will not even look at your thread because of the title, just trying to help! |
Installation broken
For the error when I ran the command it gave me it said "Command not found"
As for the code you gave me, I typed it in the Terminal and it gave me this. E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? I gave them my password thinking that is what it needs but it also came up with command not found. Sorry if I seem stupid with this I am fairly new to Linux, is there any other help you could offer? :( |
Try this:
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sudo apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev |
Ok so I tried
sudo apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev sudo gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache Came up with Reading package lists...done Building dependency tree Reading state information...Done E: Unable to locate package gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders--update-cache ): Is there anything else I can try? |
Yes, I'd switch over to a console and run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade by hand. If it finishes successfully you are all good. If it recommends running dpkg with some options, do it.
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You might also try apt-get clean. There might be stuff in the apt-get cache that's confusing the package manager.
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Okay, my laptop is up and running again! Turns out I had to apt-get clean before doing anything else! Thanks for your help everyone! (:
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(Grin) I thought of apt-get clean because I had a similar problem on my Debian box about two weeks ago and found the answer in a web search.
Glad you are running. |
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