[plug] Debian update issue

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

This week, I did a Debian Sarge update using Synaptic, after two weeks 
without updating, and things went wonky with my system. I also had used 
Opera, which had prompted me to upgrade to version 8.0, which I declined 
as I wanted to use the application at the time.

Due to the way that my system operates, apparently without releasing 
memory when applications are closed, I rebooted, then when I next logged 
in, only one of the web browsers worked - konqueror, and Mozilla and 
galeon and epiphany did not work and had to be reinstalled, and Opera no 
longer can be installed to run, coming up with an error message when 
attempted to be run from a command line.

There were also two instances of Synaptic present in the menu, after the 
system update, and not before the system update, again with the apprent 
eastern bloc language inclusions, and only one of the two instances of 
Synaptic in the menu, worked. At first I thought that the system update 
had involved some security breach from the eastern bloc, with the 
apparent sudden inclusion of the eastern bloc languages of which I had 
not previously been aware.

When I looked at the advanced tab for properties for the web browser 
applications, there appeared to be russian and chinese and polish 
language inclusions, that I do not recall seeing before, apart from the 
opera one, which had no language inclusions.

I have tried to send the error message from the opera problem, when 
running the command from the command line, to a file so that I can post 
the error message to the list, but the error message displays on the 
screen and the filethat was generated, is empty.

I have also just had a system crash, while trying to reply to an email 
message (after Mozilla crashed).

Was there something unusual or wonky with the latest Debian Sarge 
updates, this week?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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