On Thursday, April 16, 2020 4:43:37 AM CDT Chris Lamb wrote: > Can you provide the output of: > > $ ./installation-birthday --verbosity 2
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bss@monster % installation-birthday --verbosity 2
D: Determining block device for /
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/installer
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/bootstrap.log
D: Found mtime of /var/lib/vim -> 2007-12-18 03:08:03
D: Preferring 2007-12-18 03:08:03 over None
D: Failed to get mtime of /lost+found
D: Found mtime of /root -> 2019-09-25 02:15:38
D: Found mtime of /etc/machine-id -> 2015-05-03 00:25:39
D: Today's date: 2020-04-17
I: Installation date: 2007-12-18
D: Dates do not match
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(Looks right!)
> ... as well as explicitly confirming which version you are using.
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bss@monster % apt-cache policy installation-birthday
installation-birthday:
Installed: 12
Candidate: 12
Version table:
14 700
700 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
700 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main i386 Packages
*** 12 900
900 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
900 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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I also thought this might be helpful:
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bss@monster % installation-birthday --force --verbosity 2
D: Determining block device for /
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/installer
D: Failed to get mtime of /var/log/bootstrap.log
D: Found mtime of /var/lib/vim -> 2007-12-18 03:08:03
D: Preferring 2007-12-18 03:08:03 over None
D: Failed to get mtime of /lost+found
D: Found mtime of /root -> 2019-09-25 02:15:38
D: Found mtime of /etc/machine-id -> 2015-05-03 00:25:39
D: Today's date: 2020-04-17
I: Installation date: 2018-04-17
/usr/bin/installation-birthday:92: DeprecationWarning: dist() and
linux_distribution() functions are deprecated in Python 3.5
distname=platform.linux_distribution()[0].title(),
0 0
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0 |~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~| 0
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___|__|___________|___|__
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0 | H a p p y | 0
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_|___|_______________________|___|__
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| B i r t h d a y! ! ! |
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|___________________________________|
Congratulations, your Debian system "monster" was installed
2 year(s) ago today!
Best wishes,
Your local system administrator
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Is the --force doing something weird? Where'd that "Installation date:" line
come from; it is very different from the not-forced version.
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