Re: Big dummy at work again
On Sunday 12 June 2016 18:09:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > A single 'q', and all hell took off and bombed my system, leaving
> > only that which was in memory & running. It did not accept another
> > q, nor a ctl+c. Bad dog, no dinner.
>
> So you opened a terminal and typed:
sudo aptitude, typed u for update, it showed 2 security thingy's. I tried
to get a look at what they were, wasn't happy with what I saw so gave it
a q to go back to showing the summary screen, which according to
aptitude included 65 broken packages that synaptic doesn't see.
I didn't want to do anything but quit so I gave it the q you quoted.
Next thing I know its proceeding to delete about 640 pkgs. I figured I
was well and truly screwed, but it left the stuff that was running
alone. I had enough terminals already running to effect a recovery, so I
first did an apt-get install synaptic, then spent 3 hours browsing thru
its list to find stuff I knew I had to re-install, and did, about 245
packages. I think I can safely reboot but haven't. If that doesn't
fly, I burned a fresh copy of wheezy+linuxcnc yesterday, so I can come
pretty close between that and some time with amrecover.
>
> $ q
>
> and all hell let loose?? Come off it, Gene. What did you type that
> you don't want to admit to?
I told you the truth, Lisi.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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