Re: aptitude update 255 exit status, no errors/warnings

["Dr. Ed Morbius" <dredmorbius@gmail.com>]

on 21:24 Fri 28 Jan, Sven Joachim (svenjoac@gmx.de) wrote:
> On 2011-01-28 21:07 +0100, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> 
> > Attempting my usual aptitude update and package download today:
> >
> >     aptitude update && aptitude -dy full-upgrade
> >
> > ... I noticed that the full-upgrade didn't run.
> >
> > Checking aptitude's exit status, I found it was '255', though no errors
> > were displayed.
> 
> This has been reported already: http://bugs.debian.org/563887.
> Unfortunately, aptitude's main (i.e. only) developer seems to have
> disappeared. :-(

Thanks, I've updated the bug with my info.

That's somewhat troubling WRT the dev.

-- 
Dr. Ed Morbius
Chief Scientist
Krell Power Systems Unlimited