[NTLUG:Discuss] Ubuntu 10.10 Upgrade Question

[Robert Pearson]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Preston Hagar <prestonh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for the help. That did it.
Somehow, for some reason between 04-20-2011 and 04-26-2011 the cdrom
line in sources.list got uncommented.