On Mon, 3 May 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
If a full-upgrade (previously known as dist-upgrade) throws errors, the last thing you should do is reboot. You should *fix the errors*; your system may not reboot cleanly until they are resolved.
Well said. Rebooting in the middle of a dist-upgrade - I'm surprised it came up at all.
Convincing people not to reboot in the face of a problem is a constant stuggle. I penned the following thoughts on rebooting:
http://practicalsysadmin.com/wiki/index.php/Reboot Rob -- Email: robert@timetraveller.org IRC: Solver Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world