On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:24:57AM -0800, Robert Bond wrote: > I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+ > packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared > to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down > to the fact that many files and directories on my system had a modification > date of 12/12/2012! I fixed most of them with some "touch" scripts and got > the upgrades to work. > > My question is: does anybody have any idea where the bogus time stamps came > from? I'd like to avoid doing this again. I don't know if the clock was > wrong - I suppose it could have been - but by time I figured out what the > problem was I had rebooted the system because one of the other upgrades was > a new kernel. The clock was correct after the reboot.
filesystem corruption? A
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