Auto updater

[Paul Rumelhart]

I had a similar thing happen to me.  I got some firefox and thunderbird 
updates the other day that failed to install, and after I had updated 
them the program I was working on coding started core-dumping.  I 
couldn't figure out why the simple change I made would cause that, and 
it still happened after I reverted to a previous version.

It turns out that one of my libc6 packages was broken.  I don't know if 
it was libc6-686 or not.  I ended up doing a "sudo apt-get install -f" 
to fix it. After that, I was able to install the firefox and thunderbird 
upgrades, and my work-in-progress program started behaving normally again.

Paul

Glenn R Williams wrote:
> I went into Synaptic and told it to "Fix broken packages"". It said it could 
> not install the libc6-686 package, but then it seemed to and when I rebooted I 
> was able to install the other updates and things are back to normal.  
> (Synaptic is part of Ubuntu GNOME, but seemed to do the trick).
>
> HTH,
>
> Glenn
>
>
> On Sunday 28 September 2008 07:10:02 Neil Winchurst wrote:
>   
>> Today I saw the triangle on the panel to show that there were some
>> updates available. I went through the normal routine to run the updates
>> but came up with an error message saying the it would not do the updates
>> as they might cause an error.
>>
>> Well, OK, so forget them. But now the triangle is still showing instead
>> of the green circle so I will not know it there are any new ones to
>> update.
>>
>> I have tried cancelling the changes but I have not found any way to
>> remove them or to permanently cancel the update.
>>
>> Can anyone help please?
>>
>> Neil Winchurst
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