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Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

From "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem
Date 2021-08-20 14:40 +0200
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On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 12:32, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:45:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > One might assume so, but only you can check that. There are two logs
> > of the upgrade. /var/log/apt/history.log (and its predecessors) shows
> > the command issued, followed by the packages affected, with the old
> > and new version numbers in parentheses. /var/log/apt/term.log (and its
> > predecessors) shows the various packages being unpacked and then set
> > up.
> 
> Huh.  I didn't know about the terminal session logs.  Nifty.
> 

> 'Twould be nice if it showed the command which was typed before each
> logged session, but still... nifty.

You may be aware of "script" which I have found useful for that. You have to overlook gibberishy characters though, as backspace and other special chars are included in the output file.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/script

You can set it up to run with new terminals, but I can't find the instructions to do so.

Kind regards
Gareth

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Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-18 01:50 +0200
  Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-18 17:20 +0200
    Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-08-19 00:40 +0200
      Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-19 05:10 +0200
        Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-19 07:00 +0200
          Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-19 08:50 +0200
            Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-20 05:50 +0200
              Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-20 13:40 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-20 14:40 +0200
              Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-20 15:20 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2021-08-21 14:50 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-21 18:00 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-22 06:40 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-22 14:20 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-22 14:30 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-22 16:40 +0200
                Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-23 09:30 +0200

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