On Tuesday 03 November 2020 03:55:20 Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote: > On Tuesday 03 of November 2020 03:50:26 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > I thought it unusual that this machine was not getting updates, > > while the one machine tool machine I had tde installed on was. So I > > looked at the repo list in synaptic and found the deb line for r14 > > had become unchecked. Checked it, and refreshed. That brought in > > 313 packages, or tried to, reporting that it wasn't successfull at > > pulling them all. But when it had installed what it could, I then > > did another refresh, but it then did not mark any more new ones. Ack > > the log, the server hung up on me. > > > > Since I was then about 110 days of uptime and that many updates it > > needed to restart the dbus apache2 and tdm kin. I checked them, > > clicked fwd and was greeted by a bash login on tty1. Logged in and > > did a sudo reboot. A bit slower than I recall, but but a lot was > > changed and things seem to be running ok now. > > > > But I am left with a suspicion I might not be pulling from the > > latest mirror. ISTR it was moved several months back, so would > > someone be kind enough to paste the latest repo line to me? > > > > Thanks a bunch. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > It has been a long time since the layout was changed on the primary > archive. As a result, the addresses for the repositories have changed. > In any case, the addresses are preserved there and automatic redirects > are set up so that the previous addresses in the apt sources lists are > still functional. > > If you have apt sources for Trinity set up using the > trinity-apt-archive package, then your addresses have been > automatically updated in your sources lists. But it is possible that > Synaptic then considered them as new addresses and turned them off by > default. I don't like these programs that change the configuration on > their own :( > > Cheers That does sound like a cogent explanation. And I agree. Its taken NM over a decade to learn to leave a host file based network config alone. There for several years I was searching it out and rm'ing it before the installs reboot. Recently ahahi has been getting the same treatment. I hate knowitall software. And I certainly appreciate the stability that tde has brought to the table. My hat is off in a salute to you folks. Thank you Slávek. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
