Re: Bug#60071: apt: apt-get stops during slink -> potato dist-upgrade
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 debian-bugs@marc-haber.de wrote:
> After having worked with potato at the office for a few weeks now, I
> decided to upgrade my slink box at home. I pulled the CD images made
> by Andreas Jellinghaus and started. I had apt-0.3.13 on my slink box,
> so I decided to use the apt-cdrom way.
apt 0.3.13 does not have working media swap capablilities, you must use a
newer version.
> That must have been a mistake, because from now, apt-get wouldn't
> continue. It gets right to "111 packages not fully installed or
> removed" and stops there. apt-get is set to state "sleeping" and my
apt 0.3.18 has an already-reported and fixed in CVS bug about this. Woops.
If you kill the 'cdrom' process it will continue normally.
> I now have a system that doesn't know its cursor keys, that complains
> about locale errors all the time and can't be logged in to via the
> network.
> Might this be due to an apt bug?
No
Jason
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