UP 2014.10.15

[MAYBL8]

Schoelje,
After crashing out of the update. Running what you listed me to do and a dpkg --configure -a
Apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade I am only left with this:

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danc-e535 ~ # apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libavformat55
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Now going to restart. All seems fine now.

[Arjen Balfoort]

The pre-up script should have handled that.
Try to reinstall libavformat55:

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall libavformat55

If that's done:

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sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-56

[MAYBL8]

That did it.
All good no errors to report.
System rebooted fine.
I think from the previous crash it left some items unresolved.
Thanks
Now onto some other machines to upgrade.

[abqnm]

This UP has fixed some things, while it has broken some things terribly. First, now I can use the current kernel for the first time since 3.11-2. Every kernel since would cause my display not to wake back up after closing the lid. The 3.16-2 is the first kernel since that allows my display to wake when I close the lid. So that is a plus.

SolydK 32-Bit

Now to what is broken.

First, I have the display brightness bar permanently displayed on my screen at 100%, regardless of what brightness setting I am using. It also does not change when I change the brightness. I am using the Intel 2:2.21.15-2+b2 graphics driver. Update: As I was typing the rest of this, about 8 minutes after boot, the brightness slider went away. I will come edit this post with details after I submit it and reboot because I don't want to lose all this in case it is gone for good or is just temporary.

Second, I tried to take a screenshot of this, and noticed that the PrintScreen key does not launch the screenshot tool.

Third, If I launch any key combo using the Super (Windows) Key, the system becomes completely unresponsive, requiring me to hold the power button to power down.

Here is my hardware info for reference:

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H/W path         Device      Class       Description
====================================================
                             system      XPS M1330
/0                           bus         0N6705
/0/0                         memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/400                       processor   Core 2 Duo
/0/400/700                   memory      32KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701                   memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/400/0.1                   processor   Logical CPU
/0/400/0.2                   processor   Logical CPU
/0/1000                      memory      3GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0                    memory      1GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1000/1                    memory      2GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/100                       bridge      Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub
/0/100/2                     display     Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
/0/100/2.1                   display     Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary)
/0/100/1a                    bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1a/1      usb1        bus         UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1a.1                  bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
/0/100/1a.1/1    usb2        bus         UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1a.7                  bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1a.7/1    usb6        bus         EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1b                    multimedia  82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                    bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c.1                  bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0    wlan0       network     AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
/0/100/1c.3                  bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4
/0/100/1c.5                  bridge      82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6
/0/100/1c.5/0    eth1        network     NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express
/0/100/1d                    bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d/1      usb3        bus         UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.1                  bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.1/1    usb4        bus         UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.2                  bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.2/1    usb5        bus         UHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.2/1/1              generic     Biometric Coprocessor
/0/100/1d.7                  bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.7/1    usb7        bus         EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d.7/1/6              multimedia  Laptop Integrated Webcam
/0/100/1e                    bridge      82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/1                  bus         R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/0/100/1e/1.1                generic     R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
/0/100/1e/1.2                generic     R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
/0/100/1e/1.3                generic     xD-Picture Card Controller
/0/100/1f                    bridge      82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.1                  storage     82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.2                  storage     82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [IDE mode]
/0/100/1f.3                  bus         82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller
/0/1             scsi0       storage     
/0/1/0.0.0       /dev/cdrom  disk        DVD+-RW UJ-857G
/0/2             scsi2       storage     
/0/2/0.0.0       /dev/sda    disk        250GB WDC WD2500BEKT-0
/0/2/0.0.0/1     /dev/sda1   volume      100MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/2/0.0.0/2     /dev/sda2   volume      51GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/2/0.0.0/3     /dev/sda3   volume      54GiB Extended partition
/0/2/0.0.0/3/5   /dev/sda5   volume      14GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/2/0.0.0/3/6   /dev/sda6   volume      37GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/2/0.0.0/3/7   /dev/sda7   volume      2988MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/2/0.0.0/4     /dev/sda4   volume      125GiB EXT3 volume
/1                           power       DELL 15

Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: As mentioned in my update earlier, about 8 minutes after boot, the brightness bar went away. When that happened, everything else worked normally. I rebooted the system, and the brightness bar is back, and the odd behavior with it--no screenshots, Super key locks up the system, etc. I'm sure I can wait it out and it will go to normal again, but I shouldn't have to wait 8 minutes after boot to use the system. So, if anyone has any thoughts as to what could be causing this, I'm all ears. I can post any details you need.

Edit 2: I have noticed that immediately after the Brightness bar goes away and normal behavior resumes, my touchpad driver loads into the system tray, so it would indicate that it is hanging somewhere in the startup process for whatever immediately precedes the touchpad loading.

Any ideas? It is really frustrating having to wait ten minutes before my system is usable after boot, and walking on eggshells in those first ten minutes, because if I touch the wrong key or right click the wrong place I have to hard reset the system and start again. It isn't kernel related as I can boot into the older kernels and it still happens. I don't know what to do here, but something in this UP has caused this fragile extended boot behavior. Once the screen brightness bar goes away, the system becomes perfectly stable. I can't see anything unusual happening in dmesg around the time it suddenly starts to work either. I don't know what else to look for. I would appreciate some guidance. The UP completed with no errors of any kind (or if it did, it didn't display them in the console long enough to read them). I really don't want to have to wipe my production system just to solve this problem. Thanks.

[zerozero]

I'm knida stuck here...not sure what to do

can yo, please, post the output of

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dpkg -l | grep conky

[zerozero]

It looks like update has stopped on installing the udev update.
Should I just wait?

Dan
can you share the output of

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cat /var/log/apt/term.log | grep udev

[nuts2u]

ZZ per your request:

can yo, please, post the output of

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dpkg -l | grep conky

dpkg -l | grep conky
ii conky 1.9.0-6 all highly configurable system monitor (transitional package)
ii conky-std 1.9.0-6 amd64 highly configurable system monitor (default version)
ii solydxk-conky 1.0.2 all Conky theme for SolydXK.

[MAYBL8]

Z,
Here you go:

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danc@danc-e535 ~ $ cat /var/log/apt/term.log | grep udev
Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_208-8_amd64.deb ...
De-configuring libudev1:i386 (204-8) ...
Unpacking libudev1:amd64 (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_208-8_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libudev1:i386 (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../archives/udev_208-8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking udev (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Setting up libudev1:amd64 (208-8) ...
Setting up libudev1:i386 (208-8) ...
Setting up udev (208-8) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/udev ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init/udev-finish.conf ...
Preparing to unpack .../libgudev-1.0-0_208-8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Processing triggers for udev (208-8) ...
Setting up libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 (208-8) ...

[zerozero]

@nuts2u
it seems that the problem might be easy to solve:
kill conky

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killall conky

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apt install conky-all

log-out/login.

===

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zerozero@home ~ $ dpkg -l | grep conky
ii  conky                                  1.9.0-6                               all          highly configurable system monitor (transitional package)
ii  conky-all                              1.9.0-6                               amd64        highly configurable system monitor (all features enabled)

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zerozero@home ~ $ conky -V
Conky 1.9.0 compiled Wed Sep 10 07:11:34 UTC 2014 for Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)

Compiled in features:

System config file: /etc/conky/conky.conf
Package library path: /usr/lib/conky

 X11:
  * Xdamage extension
  * XDBE (double buffer extension)
  * Xft
  * ARGB visual

 Music detection:
  * Audacious
  * MPD
  * MOC
  * XMMS2

 General:
  * math
  * hddtemp
  * portmon
  * Curl
  * RSS
  * Weather (METAR)
  * Weather (XOAP)
  * wireless
  * support for IBM/Lenovo notebooks
  * nvidia
  * eve-online
  * config-output
  * Imlib2
  * apcupsd
  * iostats
  * ncurses
  * Lua

  Lua bindings:
   * Cairo
   * Imlib2
zerozero@home ~ $ 

[nuts2u]

ZZ,

That did it!!!! Thank you for the your prompt reply and fantastic support.

Much appreciated

[zerozero]

Dan
there is a substantial difference to the output i have in my X-64

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[ ok ] Stopping the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
[ ok ] Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.

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zerozero@xfce-64:~$ cat /var/log/apt/term.log | grep udev
Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_208-8_amd64.deb ...
De-configuring libudev1:i386 (204-8) ...
Unpacking libudev1:amd64 (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_208-8_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libudev1:i386 (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../archives/udev_208-8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking udev (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Setting up libudev1:amd64 (208-8) ...
Setting up libudev1:i386 (208-8) ...
Setting up udev (208-8) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/udev ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init/udev-finish.conf ...
[ ok ] Stopping the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
[ ok ] Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/udev/links.conf ...
Preparing to unpack .../libudev-dev_208-8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libudev-dev:amd64 (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libgudev-1.0-0_208-8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 (208-8) over (204-8) ...
Processing triggers for udev (208-8) ...
Setting up libudev-dev:amd64 (208-8) ...
Setting up libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 (208-8) ...
zerozero@xfce-64:~$ 

udevd is not stopped and started in your system (and don't ask me why i don't have a clue)

[freecicero]

I have four machines (Solydx 64) that are all stuck on:

Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...

Any suggestions? Is it still running and I just need to wait, or is this is known problem?

Thanks!

Edit: I see that my one machine that is proceeding says it is Version 2.4.3, while all the others, which I also thought were current and uptodate, say version 2.4.1 up 2014.7.15

Should I shut down this update and go the apt-get dist-upgrade route?

[jpgjr]

I have run into a problem with kmymoney having dependency problems.

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rec-pc joe # apt-get install kmymoney
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kmymoney : Depends: kde-runtime (> 4:4.10) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: kdepim-runtime but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[zerozero]

I have four machines (Solydx 64) that are all stuck on:

Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...

Any suggestions? Is it still running and I just need to wait, or is this is known problem?

Thanks!

Edit: I see that my one machine that is proceeding says it is Version 2.4.3, while all the others, which I also thought were current and uptodate, say version 2.4.1 up 2014.7.15

Should I shut down this update and go the apt-get dist-upgrade route?

close the updatemanager (but don't reboot or log-out), open a terminal window and call it from the command-line

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updatemanager 

[zerozero]

I have run into a problem with kmymoney having dependency problems.

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rec-pc joe # apt-get install kmymoney
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kmymoney : Depends: kde-runtime (> 4:4.10) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: kdepim-runtime but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

@jpgjr
welcome to the Forum
was the UP installed without visible errors?
please share the output of

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inxi -r; apt update && apt dist-upgrade

[freecicero]

Still working through my previous problems, but now on the one machine that did seem to go correctly, the wireless network manager applet has disappeared.

Can you help getting it back? Unlike Megamin above I am running SoldyX - 64 bit version.

Thanks!

Edit - solved that by going to synaptic and installing gnome-network-manager (I think was the title).

[abqnm]

Sorry to start a second topic, but I think I may have gotten lost in another issue thread. http://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php ... 857#p45857 is my original post further up. I have added more information a few times. Any help would be appreciated. Having ten minutes of instability after boot where pressing the wrong key could completely hang it and having many functions not work after boot is frustrating.

I hope it is a simple fix and I will provide any logs/messages or any other info needed. Thanks!

[jpgjr]

I have also found that vlc and ffmpeg are not working.

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rec-pc joe #     inxi -r; apt update && apt dist-upgrade
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://home.solydxk.com/production/ solydxk main upstream import
           deb http://debian.solydxk.com/production testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://debian.solydxk.com/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://community.solydxk.com/production/ solydxk main
           deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/solydxk/debian/production/multimedia testing main non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dmo.list
           deb http://debian.solydxk.com/production/multimedia/ testing main non-free
Hit http://home.solydxk.com solydxk InRelease
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing InRelease                                
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates InRelease                        
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing InRelease                                
Hit http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/main amd64 Packages                        
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main amd64 Packages                      
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/contrib amd64 Packages                   
Hit http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/upstream amd64 Packages                    
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free amd64 Packages                  
Hit http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/import amd64 Packages                      
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main i386 Packages                       
Hit http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/main i386 Packages                         
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/contrib i386 Packages                    
Hit http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/upstream i386 Packages                     
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free i386 Packages                   
Hit http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/import i386 Packages                       
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/main amd64 Packages              
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/contrib amd64 Packages           
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/non-free amd64 Packages          
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/main i386 Packages               
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/contrib i386 Packages            
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/non-free i386 Packages           
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main amd64 Packages                      
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free amd64 Packages                  
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main i386 Packages                       
Hit http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free i386 Packages                   
Ign http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/import Translation-en_US                   
Ign http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/import Translation-en                      
Ign http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/main Translation-en_US                     
Ign http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/main Translation-en                        
Ign http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/upstream Translation-en_US                 
Ign http://home.solydxk.com solydxk/upstream Translation-en                    
Hit http://community.solydxk.com solydxk InRelease                             
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl testing InRelease                                      
Hit http://community.solydxk.com solydxk/main amd64 Packages             
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/main amd64 Packages                            
Hit http://community.solydxk.com solydxk/main i386 Packages                    
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/non-free amd64 Packages                        
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/main i386 Packages                             
Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/non-free i386 Packages                         
Ign http://community.solydxk.com solydxk/main Translation-en_US                
Ign http://community.solydxk.com solydxk/main Translation-en                   
Ign http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/main Translation-en_US                         
Ign http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/main Translation-en                            
Ign http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/non-free Translation-en_US                     
Ign http://ftp.nluug.nl testing/non-free Translation-en                        
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/contrib Translation-en_US                
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/contrib Translation-en                   
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main Translation-en_US                   
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main Translation-en                      
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free Translation-en_US               
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free Translation-en                  
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US        
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/contrib Translation-en           
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/main Translation-en_US           
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/main Translation-en              
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US       
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/updates/non-free Translation-en          
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main Translation-en_US                   
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/main Translation-en                      
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free Translation-en_US               
Ign http://debian.solydxk.com testing/non-free Translation-en                  
Reading package lists... Done                                                  
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  cgmanager libastro1 libcgmanager0 libgps21 libkonq5-templates libnih-dbus1
  libnih1 libpostproc53 libqextserialport1 libqtlocation1 libshp2 libswscale3
  libvlc5 libvlccore8 linux-image-3.14-1-amd64 marble-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  audacity ffmpeg ffmpegthumbs libffms2-3 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

[Orbmiser]

Was running smoothly pre-systemd boot. SolydK KDE Amd dual-core,4gb ram,ati 4350 dual displays running open drivers.

Am on my Win7 side updated went fine. But now when I boot it boots systemd and hangs for about 90seconds then Ksplash for another 30 seconds.

Desktop popups with no sound or sound icon in the tray. Clicking on apps take 30-60 seconds to start.
Opening System Settings>Startup>Services gives communication error KDID also other errors will post pics of errors if I can copy the errors and save on my windows side. Update: Tray icon and startup sound showed up about 20mins later.

Clicking on logout hangs. Ksysguard doesn't show any maxing out of Cpu or application hanging.
Tried booting with different kernels no joy.

How Do I ?

1) Verify any missing or mis-matched packages?
2) track down why it's hanging with systemd? As never resolved and rolled my SolydK back to get a working system again.
3) How can I verify I have the right ALL needed KDE files?

Anything else you can think of. Tho the problem is can get terminal open and run some commands maybe able to give more requested info. Or fix thru the terminal?

Or how about downing latest iso and formating and overwriting my / root partition and leave my /home untouched?
As getting frustrated as never did solve why I can't use systemd ever since I tried to switch to it back in aug? sept?

Any help is appreciated.

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orbmiser@winterfell ~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 
[sudo] password for orbmiser: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libabw-0.0-0 libappstream0 libboost-python1.54.0 libe-book-0.0-0 libetonyek-0.0-0 libfreehand-0.0-0 libgee2
  libhdf5-7 libjim0.74 liblivemedia32 libmbim-glib0 libmwaw-0.2-2 libodfgen-0.0-0 libokularcore4
  libpackagekit-glib2-16 libpackagekit-qt2-6 libpoppler44 libqmi-glib0 libx265-21 linux-headers-3.14-1-amd64
  linux-headers-3.14-1-common linux-image-3.14-1-amd64 samba-dsdb-modules
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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orbmiser@winterfell ~ $ inxi -Fx
System:    Host: winterfell Kernel: 3.16-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.3) Desktop: KDE 4.14.1 (Qt 4.8.6) 
           Distro: SolydXK 1 testing 
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M4A785TD-M EVO v: Rev X.0x Bios: American Megatrends v: 2005 date: 03/28/2010
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon II X2 250 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) bmips: 12053 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1800 MHz 2: 800 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1680x1050@59.95hz, 1680x1050@59.88hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV710 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.2.6 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series] 
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16-2-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e800 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: eth1 state: down mac: e0:cb:4e:26:e1:3f
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8187 Wireless Adapter driver: rtl8187 usb-ID: 001-005
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:c0:ca:40:b3:44
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2230.5GB (61.3% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1001FAES size: 1000.2GB temp: 36C
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD1600JB size: 160.0GB temp: 33C
           ID-3: USB /dev/sdh model: MK3252GSX size: 320.1GB temp: 0C
           ID-4: USB /dev/sdi model: FreeAgent_Go size: 750.2GB temp: 0C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 10G used: 9.0G (96%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: /home size: 11G used: 6.2G (61%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: 37.0C gpu: 44.5 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3199 psu: 2220 sys-1: 0 
Info:      Processes: 166 Uptime: 18 min Memory: 517.0/3963.4MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.1 
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.251) inxi: 2.1.28

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UPDATE 2: After the sound icon showed up in system tray and the startup sound played 20mins or so later after desktop started up. Now apps and desktop seem to behaving normally. Something hanging Sound? in systemd?

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[TeaSwigger]

Unfortunately the update did not succeed here (fortunately there's 2 OS on this PC). It said something like "dpkg: error processing package gpsd (--configure)" and neither sudo apt-get -f install nor sudo dpkg --configure -a will get her past it. What now?