On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:41 PM Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 08:47:00PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > > Ubuntu does not come standard with keybase, fwiw. If it is on your > > machine, you (or someone) must have put it there. > > Alrighty then. > > Isolate the suspect machines from the network. Then > try to learn how and when the keybase package showed up. > Write the user files to DVDs. > > Then download a mate-ubuntu install DVD image from a > different source, wipe my test machines, and start over.
I typically use apt from the command line for package management, so your mileage may vary, but on ubuntu 20.04 there is a log of package management actions in /var/log/apt/history.log (and log-rotated friends) that you could try to examine for clues. > > ---- > > Perhaps keybase was a dependence for a package that > I added after the DVD install; mostly graphics > packages from official Debian sources. I kept track > of what I added and when ... which includes many of > my own vanilla C sources that I wrote long long ago. > > In any case, I will check after re-installation, > and after each package install, and learn if (or > when) this nonsense reappears. > > The price of software freedom is eternal vigilance. > > Or is that eternal confusion? One of those ... > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
