On Monday 13 June 2016 01:31:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2016 18:09:52 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > A single 'q', and all hell took off and bombed my system, leaving > > > only that which was in memory & running. It did not accept another > > > q, nor a ctl+c. Bad dog, no dinner. > > > > So you opened a terminal and typed: > > sudo aptitude,
In other words you used the n-curses interface, not the command line one. I always use, and for most , though not all uses, recommend, the command line version, so I can't comment. > typed u for update, it showed 2 security thingy's. I tried > to get a look at what they were, wasn't happy with what I saw so gave it > a q to go back to showing the summary screen, which according to > aptitude included 65 broken packages that synaptic doesn't see. > > I didn't want to do anything but quit so I gave it the q you quoted. > Next thing I know its proceeding to delete about 640 pkgs. I figured I > was well and truly screwed, but it left the stuff that was running > alone. I had enough terminals already running to effect a recovery, so I > first did an apt-get install synaptic, then spent 3 hours browsing thru > its list to find stuff I knew I had to re-install, and did, about 245 > packages. I think I can safely reboot but haven't. If that doesn't > fly, I burned a fresh copy of wheezy+linuxcnc yesterday, so I can come > pretty close between that and some time with amrecover. > > > $ q > > > > and all hell let loose?? Come off it, Gene. What did you type that > > you don't want to admit to? > > I told you the truth, Lisi. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett