Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-14 15:40 (UTC-0800): > Felix Miata wrote: > _ZN9KListView9selectAllEb is C++ symbol mangling of KListView::selectAll > which sounds like a common standard KDE function so I checked the common > standard KDE library package first. I already knew its name from many > installs over the years. >> Likely a combination of user error and package mangler error. I had tried >> to update to v14, but after an hour of seeing upgrade candidate messages >> scroll up the screen without noticing evidence of actual progress, I >> Ctrl-C'd out, restored the old sources.list, and from there dont' remember >> what I did and didn't do. I've since done an update that included somewhere >> between 250 & 300 packages, and all seems good now with that installation. > Ah yes, that could leave things in a bad state. I suggest you run the > following (all on one line) to look for other possible problems: > dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE} ${VERSION} > ${ARCHITECTURE}\n' | grep -v 'install ok installed' Of 148 lines of output, 147 looked like this one: deinstall ok config-files libweather-ion4a 4:4.4.5-7+squeeze1 amd64 The other is this: install ok half-configured linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 2.6.32-48squeeze6 amd64 The latter is not unexpected, given its routine of not completing linux-image installation. Repeating that command without the grep produced 0 lines not containing ok, 1923 total lines. > Mouse pointer and sound card problems are outside my area of expertise. > Hopefully somebody else can help you with those. I gave up trying to "fix" the mouse pointer. I made it work by deleting most of the content of .kde/share/config/, kde4 configs, gnome/gtk configs, and the caches to more or less emulate a virgin user. Sound I "fixed" by installing the PCI Audigy Sound Blaster that had been used with the old motherboard. With that installed, sound simply works without me having had to do configuring. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/