[ubuntu-uk] How have I killed my system?

[Gareth France]

On 01/05/12 09:22, Colin Law wrote:
> On 30 April 2012 22:21, Gareth France<gareth.france at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 30/04/12 21:43, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 30 April 2012 21:32, Gareth France<gareth.france at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>> On 30/04/12 21:22, Barry Drake wrote:
>>>>> On 30/04/12 21:12, Gareth France wrote:
>>>>>> Today my system (12.04) started bringing up the crash error message
>>>>>> every
>>>>>> 10 seconds or so. I tried to do updates and it says: Requires
>>>>>> installation
>>>>>> of untrusted packages The action would require the installation of
>>>>>> packages
>>>>>> from unauthenticated sources.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have any weird ppa's included in your apt sources?
>>>>>
>>>> None at all. This happened because I tried to install a .deb file and it
>>>> brought up the message. I tried to install with dpkg which told me it
>>>> needed
>>>> libssh2-1. I installed libssh2-1 and then the .deb. It's been like this
>>>> ever
>>>> since, even after removing libssh2-1.
>>> Possibly it is whatever you installed from the .deb file that is
>>> causing the crash.  I suggest uninstalling it.
>>>
>>> You would have been better to start your initial post with "Today my
>>> system started crashing after I installed from a .deb file" rather
>>> than "Today my system (12.04) started bringing up the crash error
>>> message every 10 seconds or so".
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>> Unfortunately it's not showing up in the software centre so I'm unsure of
>> how to uninstall it. As for the wording of my post I've long since learned
>> that I get shouted at for my wording however I put it so I've given up on
>> that one!
> It was not so much the exact choice of words that concerned me as that
> you seemed not to have mentioned a crucial factor in the description
> of the problem.  But perhaps you did not realise that installing from
> the deb file may have been significant.
>
> Colin
>
I'm not certain it was since the package didn't actually install in the end.