Debian :: Prevent Notification About Undesired Update
Dec 16, 2010
A few days ago I had a problem with my screen resolution after a safe-upgrade. I struggled a little but I finally downgraded and pinned the intel driver. But now, each time I turn my computer on I get a notification of "1 update aviable" I've checked and the update is correctly pinned (I used keep and forbid-version), it does not upgrade. As you can see, this is not critical, but I would apreciate a fix.
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Debian sqeeze/sid with KDE4 on Acer Aspire One ZG5. I manage my programs with aptitude.
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Nov 18, 2010
I have a PC that have a new Ethernet card that is not yet supported by Debian/Lenny.I downloaded the latests driver from the manufacturer and after a make;make install everything works like a charm.My problem is that one day after a probable update, Debian overrided my new driver by an other one causing my Ethernet card to shut down.After an other make install, everything work again like it should..But how do i do to prevent Debian to update my driver ?
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Mar 9, 2010
Is there a way to disable all popup notifications in openSUSE while still having it check for updates periodically. What I would like is for the notification icon to appear when an update is available but to not popup the notification message, or worse, show that dialog stating that some software sources were not available when I'm on the corporate network.
Also, is it possible to disable some updates like the recent KDE one? I right click it and there is an option to disable notification of an update but the menu item is disabled.
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Sep 28, 2010
After installing SuSE 11.3 with KDE 4.4.4 "release 2", if find the followingrather annoying behavior:After dragging a window by its titlebar along the top edge of the screenand releasing it, in invariably maximizes. Dragging the same window belowthe edge and then moving it vertically up, it stays as is (and as desired).Found no related settings in "system setup - window behavior".
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Jun 29, 2011
While investigating my localhost access logs during an investigation to resolve locking myself out of my own server(!) I noticed this recent access attempt from a proxy referrer. I wouldn't expect this on a local server - currently set to listen on 127.0.01. The request was 403 forbidden, but surely the request should not have even reached this far? Is this an example of an unauthorised access attempt? I don't think it is me because all of my usual access requests are in moz 5 and im logged in to linux currently.
Note please do not click this link as I do not know where it leads ^^^^! (and i dont know how to disable it on this forum)
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Jun 6, 2011
There is an available update that I don't want to install. I've unchecked and then closed Update Manager, but the update notification icon is still sitting in my system tray, and, every time I re-open it, the update is re-checked and prompting me to download it. How do get rid of this particular update, aside from disabling the relevant ppa?
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Oct 23, 2009
when I am doing a "yum update" I receive now a long list (~94MB) because of the latest CentOS 5.4 release.I am running CentOS 5.3 on a virtual machine (virtuozzo) and had already problems to install 5.3 before. To not lose the installation I do not want to update to 5.4 but of course I want to get all updates for 5.3.How can I configure my CentOS 5.3 to update the server only with 5.3 patches/releases and how to prevent it to update to 5.4?
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Jul 7, 2011
I disabled update checking and notifications, but now I get a red triangle icon in the taskbar that says the db is out of date. Is there a way to hide that icon and not have it show up again?
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Jul 11, 2011
I disabled update checking and notifications, but now I get a red triangle icon in the taskbar that says the db is out of date. Is there a way to hide that icon and not have it show up again?
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May 3, 2010
I don't want games on my computer (running 9.10). Removed them successfully, but update manager keeps presenting them as suggested updates in update manager. Requires me to go through and uncheck all the games each time I do an update. Is there some way I can stop update manager from re-presenting removed programs or block future game updates?
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Feb 26, 2011
I've recently downgraded kaffeine to 0.8.8 to get back the EPG which was working under hardy. Is there a simple way to prevent a package from updating when I update the rest of the system? I realise that this is not normally a good idea to keep packages back like this, but the upgrade to kaffeine caused the loss of a useful tool.
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Dec 5, 2010
how can i disable software update's notification about kernel. It keeps showing me alot of annoyn things about the new kernel update, but i don't want to install that i already compilied 2.6.36.1 .
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Dec 4, 2010
i dont want to install some updates via update manager..so i untick them while updating..but when update manager checks for updates again..dey show up again..i m tired to unticking them again and again everytym. what should i do to prevent some updates from showing up again and again in update manager ?
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May 2, 2011
I have recently upgraded ubuntu to natty. I'm using a ppa (Firefox Stable) and during an update using update manager it blocked on these lines:
Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 (1.9.1.18~hg20110309r27352+nobinonly-
0ubuntu1~umd1)
This prevents me to even see other updates cause update manager says the index is broken. How can I solve this? I don't want to reinstall firefox because I'm worried it blocks again (now firefox works).
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Dec 27, 2009
One of my machines is a desktop with a WIFI connection. This machine is not configured to use NetworkManager; instead, it still does things the old way via /etc/sysconfig config files.
Problem: this WIFI connection requires wpa_supplicant. By default, F11 brings up the network at priority 10 and wpa_supplicant at priority 23. So dhclient fails its initial attempt to obtain an IP for wlan0 (it will retry and succeed but by then it's too late). This causes other network-related startup tasks to fail. For example, ntpdate fails. This is problematic for systems with faulty CMOS clock batteries since ntpd will reject updates if the clock skew exceeds some threshhold (so ntpdate is usually used to preset the clock).
The workaround is easy enough: add "Required-Start: wpa_supplicant" dependency to the init stanza in /etc/init.d/network and let chkconfig figure out how to rearrange the priorities. This ensures that wlan0 is actually capable of sending a DHCP request when dhclient starts.
This works fine...until yum update decides to replace the scripts in /etc/init.d and, consequently, things go back to the old, broken startup priorities.
So my question: Can yum be told to not change files in /etc/init.d that have been modified by the administrator? Or to at least not overwrite the LSB-style init stanza in those files?
Alternatively, is there a better way to do this that's not vulnerable to updates? I tried playing with the modprobe.conf "install" option to pre-start wpa_supplicant before wlan0 comes up but that has so far been unsuccessful.
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May 22, 2010
everytime I run "zypper up -t patch", I get the following:
Code:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
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Mar 11, 2010
Whenever I get the update notification I end up with this error screen: Could not download all repository indexes
The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct.
GPG error:[url] ubuntu Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2Failed to fetch [url] returned an error code (2) Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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Aug 11, 2009
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SELinux prevented pt_chown from using the terminal 0.
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Jul 28, 2010
I need to prevent that the latest kernel update removes the only kernel that still works in my computer. how can i do this? Currently I have 3 linux kernels versions:
Code:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-23-generic
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-23-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22-generic
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But only the oldest works. With the new update there is a new kernel version (2.6.32-24) that possibly will not boot (like previous 2.6.32-* kernels) and also I expect that, as in previous updates, the oldest kernel will become inaccessible, thus rendering my ubuntu unbootable.
PS: unsolved threads on the underlaying problem: Can't boot default kernel after upgrading from 9.xx to 10.04 lucid Upgrade to 10.04 freezes on the Ubuntu screen
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Sep 8, 2011
How can I get notification bubble like ubuntu desktop in my debian box ? I am using icewm and also have the following installed here
ii notification-daemon0.7.1-5 daemon for displaying passive pop-up notifications
ii pidgin-libnotify 0.14-6
display notification bubbles in
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Oct 25, 2010
I want to prevent grub-pc from automatically creating links to other operating systems on my laptop. Whenever there is a kernel update, grub.cfg ends with links pointing at my Windows 7 installation - I want to get rid of those links. At the moment I am doing that by manually editing the grub.cfg file and it has always worked that way. I tried to force grub-pc to avoid creating links to Windows by renaming the relevant scripts in /etc/grub.d edbarx@edbarx-pc2:/etc/grub.d$ ls 00_header 05_debian_theme 10_linux 20_linux_xen _30_os-prober _30_otheros 40_custom 41_custom README As you can see I added an underscore to the files that I don't want to be executed.
I think this can be solved by changing the file permissions of the unwanted scripts making them impossible to execute.
edbarx@edbarx-pc2:/etc/grub.d$ ls -l
total 52
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6433 Aug 7 18:10 00_header
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1474 Jul 16 18:46 05_debian_theme
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4252 Aug 7 18:10 10_linux
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May 29, 2010
The server runs# uname -r2.6.18-128.4.1.el5However, today I executed yum update kernel*due to security advisory. I was just about to reboot the system when I realized that it runs VMWare Server Instance that will most likely fail to restart after kernel upgrade (I had a hard time fixing it after previous kernel update). Now I want to keep 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 after reboot.I see that new kernel is scheduled for booting:
# cat /etc/grub.conf
default=0
timeout=20
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Jan 29, 2010
I want to use my BootIt NG boot menu. How would I go about installing Debian 5.0.3 and prevent Grub from loading into MBR? I don't remember being asked by the installer where to put Grub. Unlike Fedora where you can choose MBR or boot section of the target partition. Debian 5.0.3 -
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May 28, 2010
Alright, first Squeeze wouldn't create an initial RAM disk even with "--initrd" specified. Now I don't need one and it's creating one for me even though I don't want one! How do I stop this? I'm beginning to feel like I am using Windows in the sense that it's doing things on its own. Don't make me a RAM disk unless I say so!
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Jul 24, 2010
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Feb 8, 2011
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Dec 30, 2010
If there is a simple way to prevent accidental shutdown when the following situation occurs:
Sometimes, I log in on my father's computer to run some administrations' tasks (updates...). For that, I use SSH since I'm frequently far from my parents and what I want is to prevent a shutdown run by my father. Of course, he should be able to turn off by himself if nobody else is connected.
Molly-Guard allows to prevent distant shutdown, my request is a kind of complementary software.
Does anyone know a project which could fit with this request? Do you have simple ideas to write a short code I know bash, perl, python...
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Mar 5, 2011
I would like to use debian's popularity contest utility as I think it's an important tool for the developers and packagers, but it seems to be broken. I received the following notification after a recent full-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze:
From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Nov 18 19:14:25 2010
Envelope-to: root@mediacenter.local
Delivery-date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:14:25 +0200
X-Failed-Recipients: survey@popcon.debian.org
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
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Aug 1, 2011
My notification-daemon stopped displaying the notification bubble using the position hint provided in notify-send, the notification is always displayed in upper right corner of the screen.
Example of the command line with the position hints: notify-send --hint int:x:500 -h int:y:500 asdf
I'm on Debian unstable, amd64.
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We have the following server at collocation: [URL]
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