Gutsy 7.10 - A mind of it's own.

[Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct.]

For several days now my Resource Usage Monitor has been busy even when 
there is supposed to be nothing running.  So I did a "ps -A" and looked 
for a process that might be the cause.  It turns out  that  my Gutsy 
7.10 was doing some kind of unattended upgrade -- the first time I have 
ever seen this happen.  I checked the man files as well as the Ubuntu 
Community Documentation and found "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get 
install ubuntustudio-desktop ubuntustudio-audio 
ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-graphics ubuntustudio-video 
linux-rt" but nothing about what set this process into motion in the 
first place. In the effort of finding this situation I did "sudo kill -9 
process-number" (where process-number represents the actual process 
number). The process took a while to wind down which I thought was 
strange.  By this time I was beginning to worry about the state in which 
I had left the system.  For example, what happened after the kill 
command? Can I resume the process?  What was upgrade actually doing;  
apps. or apps plus kernel, just somethings or everything? If the process 
was repeated either from where it left off or from the beginning what 
happens to my system which pretty well runs 7-24 until it crashes or 
goes weird.  Does it alert me in some way or what?

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Thanks -- Ted