Re: Could Gnome's "install pending software updates" cause installation scripts to misbehave?

2024-03-29 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On Fri 29 Mar 2024 at 11:06:45 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote: On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 12:01:27PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: Hi, I've had a bit of a headache understanding why my Debian bookworm system suddenly panicked at boot with an 'unable to mount root fs' error. Turns out the first of

Re: Could Gnome's "install pending software updates" cause installation scripts to misbehave?

2024-03-29 Thread David Wright
Ds in all > > menuentries, as expected. > > > > (Kernel were the two most recent stable ones: 6.1.0-17 and -18.) > > > > This leads me to suspect that my grub.cfg might have been damaged in the way > > described above because update-grub might have been called in s

Re: Could Gnome's "install pending software updates" cause installation scripts to misbehave?

2024-03-29 Thread Henning Follmann
have been damaged in the way > described above because update-grub might have been called in some unusual, > limited execution environment. I'd very recently powered off my system and > let the default "install pending software updates" option checked by > accident, which

Could Gnome's "install pending software updates" cause installation scripts to misbehave?

2024-03-29 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
might have been damaged in the way described above because update-grub might have been called in some unusual, limited execution environment. I'd very recently powered off my system and let the default "install pending software updates" option checked by accident, which caused

Re: software updates

2011-02-22 Thread CamaleĆ³n
yet, give it verbosity "apt-get update && apt-get -V upgrade") > when I click on the software updates & say NO, it > gives me a menu selection of items that I DO NOT want in my system, like > libnepomuk4, and virtuoso-minimal. why does it want to install those? "apt

software updates

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have a little orange pointed wheel in my system tray that shows 16 updates available. when I do apt-get update & apt-get upgrade there is nothing to install. when I click on the software updates & say NO, it gives me a menu selection of items that I DO NOT want in my system, like lib

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-16 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines > there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other > two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just > about the same packages on all three machines. > > Is

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines > there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other > two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just > about the same packages on all three machines. > >

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:33:41PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines > there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other > two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just > about the

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread John Fleming
Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am wondering if it is something I did on the desktop? A cron job to update && upgrade?

Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Eric A. Bonney
I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just about the same packages on all three machines. Is there a feature somewhere tha

Re: keeping software updates in sync

2002-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Hothorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-09 11:34:39 +0100]: > > Hi > > At the moment I am using Debian woody 3.0 on a single i386 machine. > > There are three more machines, all i386 but with different hardware. > > If I install a new package via apt-get or dselect, is there a way to tell

keeping software updates in sync

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Hothorn
Hi At the moment I am using Debian woody 3.0 on a single i386 machine. There are three more machines, all i386 but with different hardware. If I install a new package via apt-get or dselect, is there a way to tell all the other machines to do this as well? I would like to have them with the sam