Package: update-manager Version: 0.42.2ubuntu22-11 Severity: critical Hi,
My mother (who runs a pristine Etch desktop) complained today that her machine was suddenly getting slow. After a restart, the X server refused to run. A bit of investigation over ssh showed that for a while, her machine was not running Etch at all, but sid -- she's upgrading via update-manager whenever it tells her to, and judging from the dpkg logs (doesn't update-manager have any logs on its own?) it's been happily upgrading her system to recent sid for a while. Now, here's the interesting part: /etc/apt/sources.list does not contain anything about unstable, nor sid. Nor does any apt package lists I've been able to find, nor the software-properties applet. Yet, there were hundreds of packages that needed manual downgrading, and dpkg.log does indeed show upgrading from one sid version of xserver-xorg to another as late as today. For the time being, I've asked her to ignore update-manager, but I don't think this is an acceptable sitution in etch. :-) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages update-manager depends on: ii libgnome2-perl 1.040-1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar pn lsb-release <none> (no description available) ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o pn python-apt <none> (no description available) ii python-glade2 2.10.4-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gnome2 2.18.2-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk pn python-gnupginterface <none> (no description available) ii python-support 0.6.4 automated rebuilding support for p ii synaptic 0.57.11.1+b2 Graphical package manager update-manager recommends no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]