[kwlug-disc] Interesting problem i had yesterday with Ubuntu

[R. Brent Clements]

Thanks everyone for the feedback.  I just have to be more careful.  I have
installed packages directly from .deb files, (at least Dropbox and possibly
others), and the software that I was installing when it happened is the
latest version of KiCAD from their repository.

Brent

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 16:29, Znoteer via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 03:31:04PM -0500, R. Brent Clements wrote:
> > I installed a piece of software using the command line yesterday, and apt
> > reported a long list of packages that it claimed were redundant and could
> > be removed with "sudo apt autoremove".  I didn't look very closely at the
> > list, and when I ran the program and saw some of the packages being
> removed
> > I became concerned.  I rebooted the computer to discover that the entire
> > desktop system had been removed, and my computer booted into the command
> > line login prompt.
> >
>
> You might be able to determine what happened by looking in the logs.  This
> is from Debian, but it should be the same on Ubuntu.
>
> /var/log/dpkg.log
> /var/log/aptitude
> /var/log/apt/history.log
> /var/log/apt/term.log
>
> If you use unattended-upgrades, there might also be something interesting
> in
>
> /var/log/unattended-upgrades/
>
> --
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