Strange update

Jonathan Dlouhy dlouhy55 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 20:04:44 UTC 2010


On 11/18/2010 02:45 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu10.04 amd64. (Lucid)
>
> An update manager notification popped up in the tray.  I clicked on it
> and the manager opened showing available updates and I scrolled through
> it like normal and then clicked on the install button.
>
> After some activity a dialog popped up with: Insert disk labeled Ubuntu
> 10.10 Maverick Meekrat_release_amd64(20101007)
>
> I canceled it and the install continued.  At the end I got a dialog
> saying: An error occurred  details
>
> W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu
> 10.10_Maverick)Meekrat_release_amd64[20101007]/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.1.1.2-3ubuntu_all.deb
>
> I cleared that and restarted the system and all seems to be well.
>
> It can't be a coincidence that yesterday I downloaded Meekrat amd64 and
> installed it in virtual box.  I couldn't get the guest additions to
> install until I found I needed to do sudo  apt-get install
> virtualbox-ose-guest-x11. I'm sure I did that inside of virtualbox.
>
> I wonder if this has happened to anyone else?  Is there a way to keep it
> from trying to apply Meekrat updates in the future?
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>

Do you perhaps have the CD listed in the repositories?

Jon




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