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On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:53 -0500, Ed Howland wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I just performed a update and two unexpetec things happened. First,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the packages cpio and readahead where marked as NOT AUTHENTICATED.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Then they failed to d/l from the server.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Does anyone know what is going on with these packages?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Also, what does it mean NOT AUTHENTICATED? How is this checked per</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">package? Are they signed with digital credentials validated by the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ubuntu servers?</FONT>
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I had the same problem, though I did not get the NOT AUTHENTICATED message. What I did was launch Synaptic, click Status, Select Installed (Upgradeable), Select the packages and installed them. That finally got rid of the annoying icon in my system tray. <BR>
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