What does this red icon on my panel mean?

Question

This red icon.... It showed up after I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04LTS; I can't figure out how to ditch it. It seems to be a notification thing. I am at a loss. The icon is this one:

red mark

I clicked it and read this:

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.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/272937/problem-with-mergelist-var-lib-apt-lists-ppa-launchpad-net-gwibber-daily-ppa-ub The first answer in the link solved my problem. — Avnish Kumar, Jun 27 '18 at 07:00

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '12 at 23:16

9

It's letting you know that the package system is in a broken state (eg. some of the packages are in a broken state). You can try to resolve this by running the following command in a terminal.

sudo apt-get -f install

answered Oct 07 '12 at 23:16

tgm4883

7,912

1

I tried that and it did nothing :( – Ceil Oct 07 '12 at 23:23
Try updating the system and see if you get any errors "sudo apt-get update". Paste any errors you get into your original question. – fabricator4 Oct 07 '12 at 23:40
I deleted the packages in question. Not only is the icon gone, but my system is running faster. – Ceil Oct 08 '12 at 00:34
What packages were in question? – Thomas Boxley Oct 08 '12 at 05:21
1

Nice .. it work like charm , do not forget to "sudo apt-get update" after running above command :) – Amit Dwivedi Jun 10 '16 at 03:05
The above command returned that their is nothing to do. But then I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and that resolved the issue for me. – d3corator Sep 30 '21 at 06:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 09 '13 at 02:59

I got this same red and white warning icon and identical error code after having tried to install the wrong package accidentally (i386 on amd64 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) To resolve I...

ran dpkg --get-selections > ~/Desktop/packages in terminal to get a list of installed packages
removed the package that I had just tried to install using the name of the package as appearing in the above list and this command sudo apt-get purge name-of-package-here
ran the command above sudo apt-get -f install thanks tgm4883
removed some redundant packages with sudo apt-get autoremove (the suggestion appeared in terminal after running the prior command.) Either here or the command before resulted in the warning/error disappearing
I then ran sudo apt-get update which took much longer than usual and everything seems to be back to normal.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 28 '13 at 10:49

1

Please get correct package name which is been broken. You can use following command to get all package list.

sudo dpkg --get-selections > list.txt

Find correct package name from the list(created in home folder).

And use following command to remove package forcefully.

sudo dpkg --force-all -P PACKAGE NAME

ex- sudo dpkg --force-all -P texlive-pstrick-doc (texlive-pstrick-doc is package name)

Next run update command.

sudo apt-get update

This works for me. Thanks

edited Jun 28 '13 at 10:49

Eric Carvalho

54,385

answered Jun 28 '13 at 10:27

Hasitha Gamage

11
3

@EricCarvalho how do i know which package has affected the system from the list of packages ? – devGeek Oct 31 '14 at 12:18
@devGeek This answer is not mine. – Eric Carvalho Oct 31 '14 at 12:33

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 21 '20 at 17:00

0

Create a new profile/login. Maybe it's related to profile only. I tried everything mentioned in all help on diff websites. At the end, I created a new profile and log in. It's resolved the issue. There is no red circle Icon in the top bar in this profile.

edited Jun 21 '20 at 17:00

ThunderBird

1,955

answered Jun 21 '20 at 06:25

sanjay

1

What does this red icon on my panel mean?

4 Answers4

Linked

Related