Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
@TheBreadmonkey The driver, David Lee Roth, had stepped out of the van to service a customer.
Somewhere in Texas, someone is standing waist-deep in floodwater, holding a shotgun, ready to test the famous ease of "shooting fish in a Beryl".
NPR just dropped a few bars of "Hot in Herre" under a sponsor announcement.
Aha! It's not as bad as I thought. The framerate is much higher if I play maximized rather than focuses -- probably because otherwise the particle systems are being rendered in the scene view.
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It is easy to succumb to despair, when looking at US politics. I think that is the wrong attitude to take though.
Imagine: what if Trump _doesn't_ win in November? He will have lost twice in a row. And he will almost certainly not be a viable choice after that. He will be marked for what he is: a perennial loser, who got lucky once. And he will have lost decisively, despite the best efforts of billionaires and the Supreme Court.
Imagine how wonderful that day will be? Imagine the massive amounts of crow the news media will have to ingest? Imagine that feeling of hope, long forgotten, welling forth again?
Isn't _that_ something to go to the polls for?
Overheard: "I'm not sure where you get architectural pretzels."
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🤨 Is curing patients a sustainable business model?
“In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines … Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”
From a 2018 Goldman Sachs report.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
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@teresa_athome Fixed! The incantation I needed was:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libnvidia-ifr1-470:i38
Thanks for leading me down the path to redemption!
@teresa_athome Well, at least now we have a hint as to which package is broken:
$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
[sudo] password for <redacted>:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
libnvidia-cfg1-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/269 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 286997 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-cfg1-470_470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1_amd64.deb
...
Unpacking libnvidia-cfg1-470:amd64 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) over (470.239.0
6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-fbc1-470_470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1_amd64.deb
...
De-configuring libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 (470.239.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1), to allow c
onfiguration of libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 (470.239.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Unpacking libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) over (470.239.0
6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-fbc1-470_470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1_i386.deb
...
Unpacking libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) over (470.239.06
-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing package libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 (--configure):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration
Setting up libnvidia-fbc1-470:amd64 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Setting up libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Setting up libnvidia-cfg1-470:amd64 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Setting up xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-470 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Setting up nvidia-driver-470 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.8) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$ sudo dpkg -- configure -a
dpkg: error: need an action option
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' !
@teresa_athome sudo apt-get update gave me:
Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome-remote-desktop/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome-remote-desktop/deb stable Release
Hit:3 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2204/x86_64 InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:7 https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
Get:8 https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-focal InRelease [4,416 B]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [128 kB]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [129 kB]
Hit:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Hit:12 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:13 https://hub-dist.unity3d.com/artifactory/hub-debian-prod-local stable InRelease
Fetched 261 kB in 1s (175 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-focal InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
... but then when I ran the GUI Software Updater, I again got "The package system is broken".
/var/log/apt/term.log appears to contain a series of "Preparing to unpack" / "Unpacking" lines, but no error messages. (I can paste the whole file if it would help.")
I tried
apt-get check
and got:
$ apt-get check
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
Seriously, how do I fix this? There's an additional warning icon in the bar at the top of the screen, which says:
An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu* or apt-get in a terminal** to see what is wrong. The error message was: ' Error: BrokenCount > 0'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies.
*There is no such entry in the menu I get when I right click on the desktop.
**apt-get wants command-line arguments, and of course no clue has been offered as to what they should be.
Help!
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
