[PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

Rigel Hope gnu at rigelhope.org
Wed Feb 28 01:48:07 UTC 2018


Im sorry i dont have anything more constructive than "have you tried a
command line apt update followed by upgrade?” to offer.

I know that doesn't help you much in the way of diagnosis.

On Feb 27, 2018 5:36 PM, "Dick Steffens" <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 02/27/2018 05:18 PM, Rigel Hope wrote:
>
>> By way of actually trying to help out, I would check the apt and dpkg logs
>> (in /var/log) to try and make sense of it first. Unless you've done that
>> and have an impression already, in which case I'd invite you to share.
>> Maybe in a pastebin?
>>
>
> As you noted in a follow up email, I did look at apt/history.log, but the
> last date was 2018-02-24.
>
> Just now looking at dpkg.log. It, too, has a last entry on 2018-02-24.
>
>
>
> Maybe related lines from syslog, but they don't tell _me_ anything useful.
>
> Feb 27 16:16:33 ENU-2 AptDaemon: INFO: Quitting due to inactivity
> Feb 27 16:16:33 ENU-2 AptDaemon: INFO: Quitting was requested
> Feb 27 16:16:33 ENU-2 org.debian.apt[838]: 16:16:33 AptDaemon [INFO]:
> Quitting due to inactivity
> Feb 27 16:16:33 ENU-2 org.debian.apt[838]: 16:16:33 AptDaemon [INFO]:
> Quitting was requested
> Feb 27 16:17:01 ENU-2 CRON[7257]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts
> --report /etc/cron.hourly)
> Feb 27 16:19:02 ENU-2 systemd[1]: Starting Cleanup of Temporary
> Directories...
> Feb 27 16:19:02 ENU-2 systemd-tmpfiles[7290]:
> [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log",
> ignoring.
> Feb 27 16:19:02 ENU-2 systemd[1]: Started Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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