On Tuesday 16 August 2005 19:34, Mike Bougie wrote: > hi gustin, > > from what i can recall is wasn't anything more than a few updates for > xpdf and the like. i was in the middle of something so i didn't > (foolishly) pay any attention to what was being installed. is there a > way to track down recent installations/updates so that i can confirm > what was installed?
At worst do an ls -la /var/cache/apt/archive > ~/updatedfilelist.txt This will produce a list of all the packages (and their version numbers) that have been installed or upgraded. the -l option also gives us a date stamp. I am not sure what the ubuntu update program is, I use apt-get and aptitude from the command line, aptitude leaves its logs in /var/log/aptitude, so check /var/log for anything with apt in its name (synaptic, aptitude, etc). I usually pay attention to what is being installed, though that is likely due to Debian Sid (aka debian unstable) being my distro of choice. A handy package is apt-listbugs, though I am not sure if it works with the gui apt frontends. Also, the /etc/apt/sources.list file is handy to look at, because Ubuntu does some custom things to get the automounting to work, if there are non-ubuntu sources in the sources.list file, then something custom may have been overwritten. This was the readers digest version btw. > > ~Mike > > On Tue, 2005-16-08 at 18:28 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:43, Mike Bougie wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > recently Ubuntu has been acting weird on me. I logged on and Synaptic > > > told me that there were 11 updates waiting. I installed them, and ever > > > since, problems upon problems. > > > > > > The 2 main issues: > > > > > > 1. My CD/RW and DVD/RW are no longer differentiaed in > > > Places->Computer. Now it just says CDROM (CD/RW) and CDROM(2) (DVD/RW- > > > even though this one is jumper plugged to Master). > > > > > > I have NeroLINUX installed, and it correctly recognizes the LG DVD/RW > > > and the SAMSUNG CD/RW. > > > > > > 2. Any USB devices are no longer mounted automatically. Used to be > > > (pre-"update") that I'd plug in my digital camera and it would be > > > recognized, open the Photo Manager, and everything was funky. Now the > > > gorram thing isn't even mounted! Extra weird is that when I "lsusb" I > > > can see the following: > > > > > > Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04cb:0145 Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd and (Camera) > > > Bus 004 Device 030: ID 08ec:0015 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers > > > (128-meg Dell memory key). > > > > > > Has this happened anyone else, and how to I fix it? > > > > What was updated? Are there any sources in the /etc/apt/sources that > > were not part of the default? > > > > My ubunutu/kubuntu install experienced something similar but I > > intentionally messed with it (I have a bunch of custom udev rules that > > puts certain devices in certain places, eg, my usb keys each get the same > > device name regardless of the order in which they were plugged in). > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying
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