solved

Error: Failed to connect to firewalld.  Please make sure the service has been started correctly and try again.
My WIFI connection is fine and general internet access is good.

Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.

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Install Updates Error log
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Install Updates could not successfully download and install available updates.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3781 (apt-get)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

The can't won't etc. apostrophe bug has been fixed. Pretty URL's was the culprit. Every Pretty URL's update version I tried to use, broke the Forums. So I had no choice but to go through every file in the mod looking for clues, and finally nailed it. Best 5 hours of my life spent

Hopefully this won't affect anything else on the Forums. This won't fix previous Thread titles, but will work on any newly created threads. Thank you to the Mods for dealing with this up until now.

Enjoy

Here is the log:
I did try the package fix  in  lite tweaks
Any help is appreciated.
When I tried running "software and updates"  it would not launch so tried running from cmd line and
got the error below. Thought I could remove the ppa as I do not know what that program is.

sudo software-properties-gtk
[sudo] password for jrm:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 32, in <module>
    import aptsources
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    import apt_pkg
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'


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Install Updates Error log
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Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Hit:1 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite diamond InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mosquitto-dev/m...ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/cnf-update-db", line 8, in <module>
    from CommandNotFound.db.creator import DbCreator
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/CommandNotFound/db/creator.py", line 11, in <module>
    import apt_pkg
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'
Reading package lists...
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update:ost-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/lib/command-not-found/ -a -e /usr/lib/cnf-update-db; then /usr/lib/cnf-update-db > /dev/null; fi'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

Hello everyone,

I would like to make this a topic that covers most of the basic grub problems and how to repair them

Your GRUB loader might have broken for a couple of reasons:

• You messed with the boot partition
  
• You installed Windows after GNU/Linux
  
• Or something else...
  

Fortunately grub is easy to fix and it's not very complex. If you follow these simple steps it should be fixed in no more than 30 minutes(including USB loading):

First of all boot from a Linux Lite image to live mode.

Then open terminal and type: Now you need to note down two things. First the disk directory "/dev/sd[letter]" and then the Linux partition "/dev/sd[letter][number]"
Example:
/dev/sda - Disk
/dev/sda4 - Partition
Next you need to create a temporary directory
Now mount the partition to that directory:

Now for the final part:

In case you broke grub by using Daz Windows Loader (im not promoting illegal stuff here) just make sure you check "Preserve boot code" and repatch.

I used part of this thread: link
and if you want to learn more about --root-directory option: link

Let me know if i missed something. Also comment if you have some other tips.
Have fun  :003: :048:

Quote:New to Linux, can anyone point me in right directio to fix this error?

Apologies for starting new thread - there is currently a problem with the forum software which prevents opening threads if there is an apostrophe the subject.

To fix this, following the instructions will usually work, but you need to prefix the command given with 'sudo'.  Open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl Alt T.  Then in that window enter


followed by return.  Enter your password when asked and then run updates again.

New to Linux, can anyone point me in right directio to fix this error?

Quote:My original post about not being able to install "Puddletag" has been solved. But I am unable to see any replies from my original posted question. I've tried logging in and out of my Linux Lite Forum account and can't see any replies as it just returns me to the post listings.

In any case, let me explain how I got it to install. Initially, I had looked through the Package Manager and "Puddletag" was nowhere in sight. So I opened up a terminal and did a search of Flatpak for it. It returned a "not found" message. Around midnight I thought maybe I'll try looking through the Flatpak "Software" GUI program. At first, I couldn't even see where I would enter a search term and began just looking through categories. But then I realized the screen was kind of set up like the way Gnome 3 is. I spotted a magnify glass icon at the top left corner and entered "Puddletag".

Lo and hold, there it was! But it showed "puddletag-snap" which I would assume means it's a snap package (does anyone really like snaps?). I installed it without a hitch though. Let's call that chapter closed for now. Thanks for anyone who tried to help me with my original post. Sorry I can't read your reply.

On a similar note though, I was looking forward to installing GCstar collection database and can't find that either in the original Linux Lite package manager or in Flatpak. I have a very large music collection I was hoping to catalogue this summer. This is another example of the original author's website saying "do this and do that" but it looks to involved to be worth it.

Anyone else have GCstar installed on their Linux Lite installation (5.8)? (I hope I can see your replies this time around!)

Devoman
Apologies for starting a new topic on your behalf.  There is a problem with the forum software at the moment which means that topics with an apostrophe in the Subject line cannot be opened properly so reading and responding to posts doesn't work.

Jerry did respond to your original topic on puddletag with

Quote:Looks like puddletag was left out of Focal (Series 5x) by Ubuntu. Reference: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite...=Puddletag

You could try installing the 'all' version from bionic in that link. There's no telling how that would end up, so the smart thing to do is try it in a VM first. Good luck.

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but you may not have been able to read it.

I can't help with GCStar, other than to say it appears the last release was in 2016 and it has been dropped from ubuntu repositories. Maybe someone who has used it can reply to this thread.

My original post about not being able to install "Puddletag" has been solved. But I am unable to see any replies from my original posted question. I've tried logging in and out of my Linux Lite Forum account and can't see any replies as it just returns me to the post listings.

In any case, let me explain how I got it to install. Initially, I had looked through the Package Manager and "Puddletag" was nowhere in sight. So I opened up a terminal and did a search of Flatpak for it. It returned a "not found" message. Around midnight I thought maybe I'll try looking through the Flatpak "Software" GUI program. At first, I couldn't even see where I would enter a search term and began just looking through categories. But then I realized the screen was kind of set up like the way Gnome 3 is. I spotted a magnify glass icon at the top left corner and entered "Puddletag".

Lo and hold, there it was! But it showed "puddletag-snap" which I would assume means it's a snap package (does anyone really like snaps?). I installed it without a hitch though. Let's call that chapter closed for now. Thanks for anyone who tried to help me with my original post. Sorry I can't read your reply.

On a similar note though, I was looking forward to installing GCstar collection database and can't find that either in the original Linux Lite package manager or in Flatpak. I have a very large music collection I was hoping to catalogue this summer. This is another example of the original author's website saying "do this and do that" but it looks to involved to be worth it.

Anyone else have GCstar installed on their Linux Lite installation (5.8)? (I hope I can see your replies this time around!)