Public bug reported: A wine user reported that a power failure while installing wine corrupted his system, and that recovering from the power failure was possible but took him too long to figure out. It turned out he was using apt-get to install wine on ubuntu.
Short term, maybe a wiki page or a reply to this bug documenting how to try to recover from this situation would do. Long term, ubuntu should consider sprinking magic fairy dust on apt-get to turn it into a fully ACID power-fail-resilient package manager (like http://nixos.org/nix/ claims to be). ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1089630 Title: apt-get install should recover gracefully upon power failure To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1089630/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
