[NTLUG:Discuss] Ubuntu 10.10 Upgrade Question

[Preston Hagar]

On Wednesday, April 27, 2011, Robert Pearson <e2eiod at gmail.com> wrote:
> I upgraded Ubuntu 10.04 "in place" successfully to Ubuntu 10.10 it and
> ran fine for several days. Then this cdrom message started showing up
> when I tried to do updates.
 After two days of
> trying "apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade" and Synaptic Package
> Manager (my normal update methods) to work I put the cd in and got
> this---
>
>
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/universe i386 Packages
> Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/multiverse i386 Packages
> Media change: please insert the disc labeled
>  'Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)'
> in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
>
> Does this look ok? I can't believe these packages could not have come
> from the repositories?
> Have I been hacked?
>

Check /etc/apt/sources.list  and any files in /etc/apt/source.list.d/
and make sure that any lines that start with cdrom or deb cdrom are
commented out with a #.  After that, run an apt-get update.

My guess is that somehow a cdrom line got uncommented in your
sources.list, which causes ubuntu to want to get packages from a local
cd instead of the repos.

If that doesn't work, post your sources.list to either pastebin or
back to this list and maybe something else will stick out.

Preston