Re: [lubuntu-users] What happened?? apt freezes during dist-upgrade in kinetic??
On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 10:38 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > [snip] running kinetic this morning and executed "apt update && apt > dist-upgrade" [snip] > FireFox disappeared from the internet menu [snip] Hi, Firefox is not provided by the apt repositories. It's a "Transitional package - firefox -> firefox snap", see https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/firefox , IOW the snap related upgrade process is providing Firefox. The "bin" provided by this package actually is a script, at least the jammy package's Firefox script starts with: "#!/bin/sh if ! [ -x /snap/bin/firefox ]; then echo "" >&2 echo "Command '$0' requires the firefox snap to be installed." >&2 echo "Please install it with:" >&2 echo "" >&2 echo "snap install firefox" >&2 echo "" >&2 exit 1 fi" IMO the snap enforcement is the beginning of the end of Ubuntu flavours. Fortunately my everyday Linux is the rolling release Arch Linux. Ubuntu flavours were my long term support emergency Linux installs, but now I try to find a long term support replacement for Ubuntu flavours. Snaps are an Ubuntu only thingy. Other distros provide the snap infrastructure, but they are not supporting it. I also dislike alternatives, such as flatpak, but those at least enjoy a minimum of acceptance, while there's absolutely no acceptance for snaps outside of Ubuntu flavours. Regards, Ralf -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
[lubuntu-users] What happened?? apt freezes during dist-upgrade in kinetic??
Folks: Once again in Lu can't access Discourse, so posting here . . . running kinetic this morning and executed "apt update && apt dist-upgrade" . . . showed a few hundred packages to install . . . midway through on #52??? there was a "hang" on what might have been "initrd - 5.15x" and there was an "error" showing in the update applet . . . something about "package number count"??? Concurrently FireFox disappeared from the internet menu . . . . I couldn't "ctrl-c" out of the hang in the console . . . couldn't launch synaptic because "apt" was locking access . . . didn't know the precise command to "force quit apt" . . . I also tried "apt -f install" but that wouldn't override apt's lock on the system. Finally just shut down out of it. On cold boot in spite of hanging "halfway" . . . now it showed only one package left to upgrade . . . a language package?? But it showed "5.15 xxx" to be removed in "autoremove"?? so it was previously trying to install it and then changed its mind?? uname -r right now shows 5.13.0-16-generic . . . I didn't update grub via the master grub controller in another OS . . . to see if that would get the kernel closer to 6.15??? Running a multi-boot grub situation . . . . But there hasn't been this kind of "hang" in running apt in Lu in quite some time . . . ? something got sideways in the dist-upgrade in kinetic . . . . -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
