This usually happens because your input buffer fed some garbage to apt
before the 'y'. Perhaps you accidentally hit <enter> twice on the
command, or a space, or any other random key, really. It's hard to say
exactly how or why, without having been there, but it aborts when it
can't parse the input (which is a sane thing to do), so it wasn't so
much that it was doing the wrong thing based on your input, but that
your input was, for some reason, not what it was expecting.
Blame your fingers, your terminal, your ssh session, your cat that
distracted you before hitting a random control sequence on your
keyboard, it's a bit hard to tell after the fact, so closing this as
invalid.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1465814
Title:
Apt did the opposite of what I told it to do when it asked me a yes or
no question
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Today I executed the command:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
And this was the output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
aptdaemon aptdaemon-data python-aptdaemon python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets
python3-aptdaemon python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets
python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat
wpasupplicant
8 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 1,146 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
So I answered 'y' (without the quotes), and this was the output:
Abort.
And it seemingly aborted instead of doing what I said, although when I
ran the command again, it installed the upgrades instead of aborting,
but I just thought that I should report this as it seemed buggy as
this is not what it is meant to do.
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OS Information:
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Package Information (I got this information after upgrading those
packages, and the error occurred before the upgrade, so the version it
occurred on might have been the previous to this):
apt:
Installed: 1.0.9.7ubuntu4
Candidate: 1.0.9.7ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 1.0.9.7ubuntu4 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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