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Re: Strange behaviour at kernel upgrade



On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:48:23PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> I got this strange behaviour on Sid today while upgrading
> kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686. Notice on the log that I answered "n" to "Do
> you want to stop now? [Y/n]", and it aborted just like if I answered
> "y".
> 
> The only thing noticeable is that I took a long time (a few minutes) to
> answer. I suspect there should be no timeout in this case.
> 
> I just wanted to let you know, just in case.
> 
> 
> 
> Preparing to replace kernel-headers-2.6.8-1 2.6.8-3 (using
> .../kernel-headers-2.6.8-1_2.6.8-4_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement kernel-headers-2.6.8-1 ...
>  Preparing to replace kernel-headers-2.6.8-1-686 2.6.8-3 (using
  ^
Notice the extra space here. It appears you inadvertently hit the space
bar while you were doing something else. As a result, you had that space
in your input buffer, so when you hit enter, it was the space, rather
than the 'n', which was processed. As this script interprets everything
which is not 'n' as the default value, it bailed out.

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