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Re: Malicious terminal command, see bug # 263767



On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:10:24PM -0700, thomas delbeke wrote:
> Hi I also got the message: obsolete package - python-gobject. I had
> just upgraded the kernel  to linux-image-2.6.27-2.3-generic, from
> 2.6.27-2.2-generic. I was just about to burn an APTonCD image, because
> last time I clicked restart, to upgrade from 2.6.27-2.1 to 2.6.27-2.3,
> I ran into the reboot failure. I am fairly in the dark still about
> what might have caused it, although I read something about firmware
> being installed in the wrong folder. . Anyway, I removed the KVM and
> fuse package through synaptic, as well as timidity and sun-java6-doc,
> since they gave me problems. When I checked in synaptic to make sure
> my applications were up to date, I ran into this bug again. I decided
> to try and reinstall  python-gobject before burning my APTonCD image
> and rebooting. Big mistake. WARNING: do not run '$ sudo apt-get -t
> etch-backports --reinstall install python-gobject' after having

I don't see this command anywhere in this bug report other than your
comment that says "WARNING: do not run ...".  In what context did you
see this command that you thought it would be a good idea to execute?

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Brian Murray

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