Can't open MX Package Installer after update  [Solved]

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Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#1 Post by onion_rings »

I just installed Private Internet Access VPN. After that, synaptic package manager alerted me about a system update, so I ran the update: It only updated four files. But now I can't open MX package installer. I rebooted the computer a couple of times but that didn't help. What gives? Is it the update?

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System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64 [5.10.162-1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-21-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_x64 Wildflower January 15  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 7480 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 00F6D3 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.30.0 date: 12/21/2022 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 40.3/60.0 Wh (67.2%) volts: 8.4 min: 7.6 
           model: SMP DELL DM3WC64 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-6600U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake 
           family: 6 model-id: 4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: F0 cache: L2: 4 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 22399 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 1bcf:2b96 class-ID: 0e02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
           s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8") 
           diag: 354mm (13.9") 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-21-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f040 
           bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15d7 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl port: f040 
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
           bus-ID: 1-7:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 
           sub-v: 100 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 100 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 
           port: f060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: 21 class-ID: 0104 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 8.04 GiB (6.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: SD8SN8U-128G-1006 size: 119.24 GiB 
           block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0006 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 112.98 GiB size: 110.65 GiB (97.94%) used: 8.04 GiB (7.3%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 282 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 
           maj-min: 8:3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1978 lib: 990 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list 
           1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
Info:      Processes: 220 Uptime: 16m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 2.22 GiB (29.0%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI
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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#2 Post by j2mcgreg »

Can you open Synaptic Package Manager instead? Main menu --> System --> Synaptic
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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#3 Post by onion_rings »

j2mcgreg wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2023 8:56 pm Can you open Synaptic Package Manager instead? Main menu --> System --> Synaptic
Yes, Synaptic still opens.
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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update  [Solved]

#4 Post by dolphin_oracle »

Ok I apparently screwed up a policykit file for an unrelated application and its causing a conflict. I'll push another update.

installing the disk-manager in the linked zip file should make the problem go away.

disk-manager_23.04.03
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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#5 Post by siamhie »

I'm still able to open MXPI after today's update. Could it be related to PIA?

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  57    upgrade exit-op…    2023-04-07 18:19:12 PDT          1    siamhie (1000)  
  58    upgrade checkap…    2023-04-08 16:55:15 PDT          4    siamhie (1000)  
╔═[siamhie@mxflux]═[19:07  08 04 23]══════════════════════════════════════════════[~]
╚═> nala history info 58
=====================================================================================
 Upgraded                                                                            
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  Package:                    Old Version:       New Version:                 Size:  
  checkaptgpg                 23.01.01           23.04.01                     24 KB  
  disk-manager                23.01.01           23.04.01                     88 KB  
  mx-goodies                  23.01.04mx21       23.04.01                     48 KB  
  system-keyboard-qt          22.10.01mx21       23.04.01                    124 KB  
                                                                                     
=====================================================================================
 Summary                                                                             
=====================================================================================
 Upgraded 4 Packages
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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#6 Post by onion_rings »

dolphin_oracle wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2023 9:33 pm Ok I apparently screwed up a policykit file for an unrelated application and its causing a conflict. I'll push another update.

installing the disk-manager in the linked zip file should make the problem go away.

disk-manager_23.04.03
I attempted to install the file that you linked, using disk-manager_23.04.03_all.deb. It doesn't seem to have worked.

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Installing selected package please authenticate

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'disk-manager' instead of '/home/jude/.cache/.fr-v0jsTV/disk-manager_23.04.03/disk-manager_23.04.03_all.deb'
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  gvfs-bin
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/jude/.cache/.fr-v0jsTV/disk-manager_23.04.03/disk-manager_23.04.03_all.deb disk-manager all 23.04.03 [89.0 kB]
(Reading database ... 318444 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../disk-manager_23.04.03_all.deb ...
Unpacking disk-manager (23.04.03) over (23.04.03) ...
Setting up disk-manager (23.04.03) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.69) ...
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/jude/.cache/.fr-v0jsTV/disk-manager_23.04.03/disk-manager_23.04.03_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#7 Post by onion_rings »

Okay, well, now I can open MX Package Installer again. So... 🤷 Maybe I managed to install the necessary files after all?
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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#8 Post by karlchen »

Hello, dolphin_oracle.
dolphin_oracle wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2023 9:33 pm Ok I apparently screwed up a policykit file for an unrelated application and its causing a conflict. I'll push another update.
installing the disk-manager in the linked zip file should make the problem go away.
disk-manager_23.04.03
Does this only affect MX Linux 21.3 Wildflower?

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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#9 Post by dolphin_oracle »

karlchen wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:51 am Hello, dolphin_oracle.
dolphin_oracle wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2023 9:33 pm Ok I apparently screwed up a policykit file for an unrelated application and its causing a conflict. I'll push another update.
installing the disk-manager in the linked zip file should make the problem go away.
disk-manager_23.04.03
Does this only affect MX Linux 21.3 Wildflower?

Regards,
Karl
it affects anything that has disk-manager installed. in this case, mx21 and mx23
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Re: Can't open MX Package Installer after update

#10 Post by karlchen »

Hello, dolphin_oracle.

Thank you for clearing this up.
This tells me 2 things: I will not experience the problem on my ancient MX Linux 19.4. But I might experience it on my MX Linux 21.3.

But wait: Just noticed that on my MX Linux 19.4 disk-manager is present. It still starts up as it should, however.

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$ LC_ALL=C dpkg --list 'disk-manager'  | egrep "^ii|Name|==="
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-========================================
ii  disk-manager   1.1.1-2      all          simple graphical filesystem configurator
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