Bug#318846: browser (links is started) by apt-get upgrade but no directions on how to continue are given
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.6
Severity: important
I was surprised to see links presenting me the changelog of the xserver,
telling me it is being upgraded to x.org. Ok, and then I didn't know
what to do - I tried <ESCAPE>, I think I did not try "q" for quitting
links (I was so surprised that I couldn't remember that command), so I
killed links by <CTRL-C>. Now after issuing apt-get upgrade again,
links is not started any more, and the upgrade just stops with a "_"
cursor blinking in the lower left corner of my terminal window.
Reconfiguring debconf to use Readline or KDE instead of Dialogue didn't
help. This renders the apt-get upgrade command unuseable for me.
Cheers
Johannes Ranke
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free
# No non-free in experimental
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian-pure64 experimental main contrib
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian-pure64 experimental main contrib
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-pure64 sid main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
# yzis repository
deb ftp://download.yzis.org/yzis/debian-amd64 ./
# KDE 3.4.1 on alioth
deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.111
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.0-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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