On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 17:46:24, Alan Jachimiak wrote: > Hey! > > I recently ran into a small bit of trouble when performing an "apt-get > upgrade" on my webserver. > > I was able to recover but I was digging around trying to do a post-mortem > and I ran into an issue... > > I can't seem to find the apt logs. Can you help me find them? > > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. I've looked in /var/log/apt and both history.log > and term.log are empty...
Check for /var/log/dpkg.log as that's another option. Usually I use aptitude for both upgrades and package update/upgrades, partly because I like the interface (once you get used to it -- admittedly that's not easy, but the documentation is good), but even more so because it makes a more humanly-readable log of its own which gets rotated once a month. /var/log/aptitude[.#.gz] are the logs that I find save me when upgrades go wrong (which is thankfully very rare]. Assuming that you're missing all of the package logs, the next thing I suggest doing is installing the debsums package and running 'debsums -s' to find any packages that are corrupt. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Jan 9 - High Performance Computing at a Small Scale Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it
