Matthew Dyer wrote: > Mornning all, > > > A few days ago I reported a problem whare the gnome testing system > which I am now using to write this message. Here is the resault. > > > I did a clean install of the system using the alfa testing image. I > then edited the sources list and changed the lines from buster to > testing. I then did a sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade which > installed the securety updates it found yesterday. his morning I did > the same command and here is the output from that update. > > > root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates InRelease > Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease > Reading package lists... Done > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# > > Any ideas on why this is happens? If any one has any ideas on how to > fix this without having to reinstall. > >> >> root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade >> Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates InRelease >> Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease >> Reading package lists... Done >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> Calculating upgrade... Done >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >> root@matt-the-cat:/home/matthew# >> n > reinstall please let me know as it is really strange. My mate system > does not have this problem. Thanks.
it looks like your /etc/apt/sources.list file doesn't contain all the lines for testing or they are improperly formed? mine look like: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-free songbird