On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:56:33PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Thursday 03 April 2008 18:39, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I ran following command and got an error. > > > > > > $ apt-get install lighttpd > > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' > > > to correct the problem. > > > > > > I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up > > > my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power > > > off to restart it. > > > > because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured. > > > > now, as to why that might cause the system to crash, I don't know. > > > > A > > The -a flags means that all packages not configured are (re)configured, not > all packages on the machine. ah! you're right. I was confusing it with dpkg-reconfigure -a which does everything. And no, it's not a resource problem, just takes a while sometimes. A
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