On 30 April 2012 22:21, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/04/12 21:43, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 30 April 2012 21:32, Gareth France<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 30/04/12 21:22, Barry Drake wrote: >>>> >>>> On 30/04/12 21:12, Gareth France wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Today my system (12.04) started bringing up the crash error message >>>>> every >>>>> 10 seconds or so. I tried to do updates and it says: Requires >>>>> installation >>>>> of untrusted packages The action would require the installation of >>>>> packages >>>>> from unauthenticated sources. >>>> >>>> >>>> Do you have any weird ppa's included in your apt sources? >>>> >>> None at all. This happened because I tried to install a .deb file and it >>> brought up the message. I tried to install with dpkg which told me it >>> needed >>> libssh2-1. I installed libssh2-1 and then the .deb. It's been like this >>> ever >>> since, even after removing libssh2-1. >> >> Possibly it is whatever you installed from the .deb file that is >> causing the crash. I suggest uninstalling it. >> >> You would have been better to start your initial post with "Today my >> system started crashing after I installed from a .deb file" rather >> than "Today my system (12.04) started bringing up the crash error >> message every 10 seconds or so". >> >> Colin >> > Unfortunately it's not showing up in the software centre so I'm unsure of > how to uninstall it. As for the wording of my post I've long since learned > that I get shouted at for my wording however I put it so I've given up on > that one!
It was not so much the exact choice of words that concerned me as that you seemed not to have mentioned a crucial factor in the description of the problem. But perhaps you did not realise that installing from the deb file may have been significant. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
