Package: apt Version: 0.8.5 Severity: normal It appears that since a recent upgrade, you can't interrupt apt runs anymore. That is an important way to recoved from errors before much damage is done, including: * genuine user errors * apt bugs: during a mirror update, the hash won't match, this will make apt throw away the Packages file, making a lower-priority source be used instead, potentially leading to "remove world, upgrade some" if not caught (yeah, running dist-upgrade after a failed update may be considered an user error) * dpkg bugs: when running out of disk space, it will blithely continue other operations, potentially breaking more and more packages
I can't think of any good reasons apt should ignore such signals for. And in any of these situations, a quick abort within a couple of seconds can save a hours long recovery. After frantically pounding on Ctrl-C, Ctrl-\ and watching them fail, suspecting a HUP would be ignored as well, locating a free console, sshing in, su - ing, killall apt-get, it will manage to do seriously more damage in that time. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.5.1-8 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.5.1-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.1 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.5 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.98.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.70~pre1+b1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
