Re: Suspicious output during apt update
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 9:31 AM Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 13/05/2020 07:05, Ihor Antonov wrote:
> > Today during apt update I got a very strange error message (below)
> > Running apt udpate did not seem to reproduce the issue.
> >
> > Does anyone know what is this? And why does it tell "get haircut" ?
> >
> > --------
> > $ sudo apt update
> > [sudo] password for ngor:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Fetched 14.9 MB in 4s (3,979 kB/s)
> > Entity: line 4: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name
> > e original message barList of languages in a config file instead iso-codesFind &
> > ^
> > Entity: line 8: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> > - get haircut @s 24 @r d &i 14 @o r</li>
> > ^
> > Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> > @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
> > ^
> > Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> > @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
> > ^
> > Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> > @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
> > ^
> > Entity: line 11: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';'
> > @r y &i 4 &M 11 &m 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 &w TU</li>
> > ^
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 12 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
> >
> That's an odd one because, as far as I can tell
> (https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=get\s%2Bhaircut&literal=0) the
> phrase "get haircut" isn't anywhere in Debian. That would imply that
> it's in a datafile on your computer. You could try grepping your hard
> disk for that phrase and see what files it turns up in?
"get haircut" doesn't show up in many places, but I suspect it relates
to emojis used for example in libreoffice. I noticed that the
libreoffice packages were recently upgraded in testing.
(/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/emojiconfig/emoji.json for example)
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