Gianmarco Leone wrote: > Hi all, > I had a little idea that could be trivial to implement, and I don't see > any drawback in implementing it. When you interrupt a package manager > (apt-get or synaptic) you have to manually run "dpkg --configure -a" to > make thing clean again (you complete the installation/upgrade process of > the packages). My idea is to automatically run it at boot. If everything > is ok, it doesn't do anything, else he complete the broken process at > boot without the need to run manually the command in a terminal. USE > CASE: abnormal termination of dpkg causated by a power failure or a > discharged battery. > Ciao, > Gianmarco >
This can also happen due to running out of disk space on the / partition. This is a very plausible scenario, and it's especially annoying since you can't run apt-get autoclean to free up disk space until you run dpkg --configure -a We may not want to wait for a reboot here. Just integrate it into the update manager if it detects dpkg --configure -a still needs to be run. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
