On Monday 08 July 2019 09:00:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 08 iul 19, 07:42:46, Gene Heskett wrote: > > yes it was, and no solution was offered that I read about. And no, > > aptitude is not a replacement. I've hit q for quit and had it tear a > > working system down to doing a reinstall to recover, 3 times now. > > I used to be a heavy aptitude user in the past, on unstable (i.e. > almost daily package upgrades). It does have it quirks. It also shows > very clearly what it is about to do before you press the final 'g'. > > > It may be capable, but imnsho its also dangerous. Having it do > > anything but quit instantly when you hit the quit key q, hit because > > you're lost is unforgivable. > > Thanks, but no thanks. Having it exit immediately in the middle of a > complex upgrade just because I hit 'q' by mistake is not nice and > might leave your system in a very bad state. > in all 3 cases, i had not marked anything, and it was sitting there showing me a list of stuff I had no clue where I was as the highlighted line would not return to the top of the screen with the usual up arrow key, so I hit the q to quit. it preceded to remove hundreds of packages, leaving me with perhaps 5 megabytes of data on the disk. That was probably a decade ago while running an earlier ubuntu, but I haven't trusted it since. All I could was dig thru the tool drawer and pull out the install cd. By then I had been running amanda every night, so I was able to recover the important stuff. I still am, but I'd not added the amanda stuff to do a backup to this install until an hour or so ago.
> Once an action has been started it might be possible to interrupt it > with Ctrl+C. Please do so at your own risk. Obviously. > Kind regards, > Andrei Take care Andrei 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
