Re: Laptop wireless problem
Lisi Reisz wrote on 07/03/16 17:56:
> On Sunday 03 July 2016 15:05:00 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:56:07 Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>> On Sunday 03 July 2016 14:49:44 deloptes wrote:
>>>> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>>> Ah! That could be part of the problem,but on its home network it has
>>>>> worked fine for several years, and stopped working suddenly on Friday
>>>>> afternoon, on the clients' premises, while connected. I had been
>>>>> upgrading earlier.
>>>>
>>>> If it was working, then perhaps it messed up with the upgrades. I would
>>>> check if I have some older packages not completely removed - example
>>>> dpkg -l | grep '^rc'
>>>
The same information from aptitude:
aptitude search '~c'
These packages are not broken but only removed with some of their configuration
files still available.
They can be removed with aptitude but aptitude may also perform any scheduled
actions. So, to remove just these packages better use dpkg:
dpkg --purge $(aptitude -F '%p' search '~c')
To see if other actions are scheduled:
dpkg -l | grep '^[^i]i'
The first column indicates what's scheduled, the second shows current state, 'i'
is for install(ed), see the first lines of the output of
dpkg -l | head
Other packages to watch for are found by
aptitude search '~b' '~g' '~o'
which are either broken, garbage or obsolete.
Regards,
jvp.
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