On 2015-04-27, Patrick Wiseman <pwise...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > > I just updated and upgraded a 'testing' system (so listed in > sources.list) and aptitude shows no installed packages. Here's a > typical aptitude entry: > > i A apache2 2.4.10-9 <none> > > and another: > > ih perl 5.20.1-5 <none> > > (The 'h' because I put it on hold when I saw it was among many > potentially broken packages.) > > As you see, 'i' indicates that the packages _are_ installed, but it's > the '<none>' which concerns me, because on its entry page, aptitude > lists NO installed packages. If I reboot, I suspect everything's going > to disappear. > > Is there any way to recover, without rebooting, from this potential disaster? > > Thanks > Patrick >
I hope that Darac's suggestion works for you. As an aside, are you sure that you still want to be on 'testing'? It will be pretty chaotic for the next few weeks. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmjvfbg.dj4.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
