Mint 14 64bit Cinnamon lotsa Problems

[theoldfellow]

1) It does't start x, I have to log-in at the CLI and startx. Before that Alt-CTRL-F7 shows:

mountall: plymouth command failed
mountall: disconnected from plymouth

2) Having started by startx, I immediately ran the updater. Which failed on openjdk-7-jre-headless, and leaves 3 brocken packages. The error message says to use the "Broken" filter for find them. The updater doesn't have a Broken Filter (this refers to Synaptic, I think). Anyway used Synaptic to find the brocken packages, but it refuses to remove them or otherwise.

Suggestions?

TOF.

[cwsnyder]

You are supposed to Fix the broken packages by finishing the install process. Either using Synaptic menu >> Edit >> Fix Broken Packages >> Apply or sudo apt-get -f install in a terminal window to do that.

[theoldfellow]

So why doesn't the update manager say that?
Mint is not supposed to need a degree in apt.
Not an auspious return for me.
Tof

[0000000000]

Here via google.

The "fix broken packages" seems to no longer be in synaptic.

Going to try

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sudo apt-get -f install

Lets see if it breaks the system..