not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

[wizard10000]

...I must have caught the repos at exactly the wrong time. Ran update/upgrade, not paying any attention at all and apt removed almost 300mb of KDE

Fortunately I've got a cron job that dumps a log of installed programs nightly, so I dropped to a root prompt with networking, ran dselect-upgrade --force-yes and everything came back live.

Yeah, I should have been paying attention, but I'm sure glad I've got that nightly cron job. Took about ten minutes to fix but I must have caught the repos at exactly the wrong millisecond this morning

[dibl]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

Bad luck for you! I ran updates this morning and never saw a blip -- then I saw you little adrenaline moment here.

[toad]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

Good gracious!

Isn't there a package for apt which keeps a log of what is installed/uninstalled? When I had aptosid on my box I remember installing it.

BTW, do you have /var/log/apt/history.log and if so, does that say anything interesting?

[wizard10000]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

Good gracious!

Isn't there a package for apt which keeps a log of what is installed/uninstalled? When I had aptosid on my box I remember installing it.

BTW, do you have /var/log/apt/history.log and if so, does that say anything interesting?

That's what's weird. There's nothing in apt's log but there's a whole pile of software removed in dpkg's log - it's too big to post

[dibl]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

Isn't there a package for apt which keeps a log of what is installed/uninstalled? When I had aptosid on my box I remember installing it.

dpkg has the ability to list all installed packages.

sudo dpkg --get-selections

So, you can make a text file of your package list any time:

sudo dpkg --get-selections > installed_packages.txt

[wizard10000]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

sudo dpkg --get-selections > installed_packages.txt

Yup. And then restore those selections like this -

sudo dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt

and install and uninstall the packages you had like this -

sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

That's how I fixed the machine this morning

[toad]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

Thanks dibl. But I wasn't after that.

I was talking about a standard log that automatically logs everything apt does - seems like a grand idea to have if you ask me and would have saved wiz' bacon had he not taken such care over his system administration...

[dibl]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

There is a log of all package installations, removals, and updates, for the current booted session, at /var/log/dpkg.log. You can read it with the script here: http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/20...g-history.html

I tried it -- it works. However, you might be thinking of something that records dpkg transactions "since the beginning of time" for a Linux system. I haven't heard of that one (nor would I wish to review such a saga!).

[toad]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

okey dokey

[kubicle]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

Thanks dibl. But I wasn't after that.

I was talking about a standard log that automatically logs everything apt does - seems like a grand idea to have if you ask me and would have saved wiz' bacon had he not taken such care over his system administration...

There is also /var/log/apt/history.log (apt history) and /var/log/apt/term.log (for terminal output from apt runs)

EDIT: darn, should have read the whole thread again

[toad]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

...BTW, do you have /var/log/apt/history.log and if so, does that say anything interesting?

That's what's weird. There's nothing in apt's log but there's a whole pile of software removed in dpkg's log - it's too big to post

[kubicle]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

...BTW, do you have /var/log/apt/history.log and if so, does that say anything interesting?

That's what's weird. There's nothing in apt's log but there's a whole pile of software removed in dpkg's log - it's too big to post

EDIT: darn, should have read the whole thread again

@wizard, did you check rotated apt logs (in case logrotate had already done it's thing)

[wizard10000]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

@wizard, did you check rotated apt logs (in case logrotate had already done it's thing)

I did - the whole fubar is missing from apt's log but is in dpkg's log. I cleaned up the logs and attached them - rename to .tar.gz

history.log shows what apt was supposed to do and dpkg.log shows what it actually did.

When I ran apt-get upgrade this morning there were a whole pile of changes, so
I ran dist-upgrade instead, which may have been my undoing

[Snowhog]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

When I ran apt-get upgrade this morning there were a whole pile of changes, so
I ran dist-upgrade instead, which may have been my undoing

I NEVER use apt-get upgrade. I ALWAYS use apt-get dist-upgrade. Why?

Packages currently installed with new
versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no
circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages
not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without
changing the install status of another package will be left at
their current version.

dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
command may remove some packages.

[glitterball]

Re: not sure what the hell happened this morning, but...

Same thing happened to me, except I actually lost everything and had to reinstall.

I am now on a clean system and when I try to update, I get asked if I want to remove the following:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for glitterball:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
akregator amarok apport-kde apturl-kde ark bluedevil dolphin dragonplayer
gdebi-kde gwenview jockey-kde k3b kaddressbook kate kcalc
kde-config-touchpad kde-window-manager kdebase-bin kdebase-runtime
kdebase-workspace kdebase-workspace-bin kdelibs5-plugins
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepasswd kdepim-groupware kdepim-kresources
kdepim-runtime kdepim-strigi-plugins kdepim-wizards kdesudo kdm kdoctools
kfind khelpcenter4 kinfocenter klipper kmag kmail kmix kmousetool
knm-runtime knotes konsole kontact kopete kopete-message-indicator
korganizer kpackagekit kpat kppp ksnapshot ksysguard ksystemlog ktorrent
kubuntu-debug-installer kubuntu-desktop kubuntu-docs
kubuntu-firefox-installer kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts
kubuntu-notification-helper kvkbd kwalletmanager language-selector-kde
libkdepim4 libkopete4 libmessagelist4 libreoffice-kde nepomukcontroller
network-manager-pptp-kde okular partitionmanager
plasma-dataengines-workspace plasma-desktop plasma-netbook
plasma-scriptengine-python plasma-widget-facebook plasma-widget-kimpanel
plasma-widget-networkmanagement plasma-widgets-addons
plasma-widgets-workspace polkit-kde-1 printer-applet python-kde4 qapt-batch
quassel rekonq software-properties-kde system-config-printer-kde
systemsettings update-manager-kde usb-creator-kde userconfig

Something wrong I think.