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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
