Hi all, After about a fortnight, I tried to update my Debian squeeze desktop, and I was using the mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in mirror. After downloading the repository lists, it tells me there are no updates -- I am surprised as I know that Gnome 2.30 is already in testing. Thinking that it could be a problem with the mirror, I switch to ftp.ch.debian.org and update. This time, it does say there are about 300 updates.
I issue a safe-upgrade, but the electricity goes out just as the updates begin downloading. After I turn the computer back on, issuing a safe-upgrade shows there are no updates! I try to aptitude update but it thinks that the repositories are already updated, though apt-cache show nautilus gives the version 2.28.4. As I was in a hurry at the time, I just deleted /var/lib/apt/lists, so aptitude had no choice but to really download the lists. After this the safe-upgrade proceeded as usual. I realised after deleting /var/lib/apt/lists that I should have kept a copy, but too late. Though the problem is (in a sense) solved, I am curious as to how this (bug?) could have occurred. After all this I checked mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in and it does have nautilus 2.30.1, so maybe the first no-updates scenario was also caused by this bug/problem. Abhishek -- Please cc me as I am not subscribed to debian-user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
