On Thursday 30 June 2016 19:25:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 30 June 2016 21:12:46 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Thats not excusable behavior, but whats worse is that debian's > > > people are denying there is a problem. 'scuse me? I swear, they > > > couldn't smell coffee with a nose full of it. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Well, if either of you two (that suffered the runaway aptitude > > issue) still have the /etc of the box that caused trouble, kindly do > > this: > > > > grep -r Assume-Yes /etc > > > > If it returns any match in the aptitude config files, there you have > > it. > > I have this on my desktop at home: > > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# grep -R Assume-Yes /etc > grep: /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf: No such file or directory > Binary file /etc/alternatives/aptitude matches > root@Tux-II:/home/lisi > > It rather looks as though I should be worried? > > Lisi
No, thats just grep being grep, it says that of ANY binary file it tries to read as text. I have spent days pouring over the manpages for grep, looking for a option to feed it to make grep quit that, simply because its so verbose that what you are looking for can get lost in its blathering about that. 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>
