I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+
packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared
to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down
to the fact that many files and directories on my system had a modification
date of 12/12/2012! I fixed most of them with some "touch" scripts and got
the upgrades to work.
My question is: does anybody have any idea where the bogus time stamps came
from? I'd like to avoid doing this again. I don't know if the clock was
wrong - I suppose it could have been - but by time I figured out what the
problem was I had rebooted the system because one of the other upgrades was
a new kernel. The clock was correct after the reboot.
The system is a Gateway laptop with standard etch and an ext3 file system.
Bob
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