Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Guy Marcenac was heard to say: > While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. > When I relog into the system, the files are locked and I can see a running > safe-upgrade in the background, likely waiting for an input. > I am afraid of consistency p

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
Florian Kriener wrote: Just kill it already. :-) If you just send a SIGTERM it should even die gracefully. If that does It did I then run dpkg --configure -a and everything seems ok Thanks BTW: Please don't CC me. Sorry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Florian Kriener
On Thursday 17 September 2009 11:37:03 Guy Marcenac wrote: > > chance then to kill aptitude. I wouldn't worry to much about > > inconsistencies, since you already have them now. Just kill it and > > try > > I'll be waiting for any other idea, but It seems I will have no other > choice left. Just

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:10:31 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Maybe you could wait 'till the process changes its state or finishes. It won't. It's been running for 12 hours now. Thanks -- Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:18:34 +0200, Florian Kriener wrote: > you, by chance, use screen? That would be quite good, because you could Unfortunately I don't > chance then to kill aptitude. I wouldn't worry to much about > inconsistencies, since you already have them now. Just kill it and try I'll b

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Florian Kriener
On Thursday 17 September 2009 10:40:11 Guy Marcenac wrote: > While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. > When I relog into the system, the files are locked and I can see a > running safe-upgrade in the background, likely waiting for an input. > I am afraid of consistency problems if I k

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
Guy Marcenac wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:40:11 +0200, Guy Marcenac wrote: While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. the running process is "aptitude safe-upgrade" Maybe you could wait 'till the process changes its state or finishes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:40:11 +0200, Guy Marcenac wrote: > While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. the running process is "aptitude safe-upgrade" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb