Re: Big dummy at work again
On Monday 13 June 2016 01:31:10 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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,
In other words you used the n-curses interface, not the command line one. I
always use, and for most , though not all uses, recommend, the command line
version, so I can't comment.
> 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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