I don't know that I would have made the assumption that the installation would be broken if you rebooted. I would agree that if you rebooted while not successfully completing the software installation that you were doing might cause things not to work right.
There have been many times where I received Network errors that failed to contact. For Example, when it goes through the list of modules to install, an error accessing the repository will fail that component from updating on that instance of Update/install. I go back and repeat the same command whether I was installing and App or Update, Upgrade, Dist-Upgrade or -F Install to correct dependency problems(Net comment here is to repeat prior command). Doing this, the apt-get process picks up with incomplete updates and reattempts. I have even have a script which will perform the steps to clear the package locking used to serialize updating. This is needed when the update fails catastrophically and does not clean up the locking. Your updates will be blocked if that locking is not cleared. If you are doing this on a mission critical system then you may want to be careful about having good backups before performing updates but most of my testing is on Virtual Box throw away Guests. I regularly update my base platforms and have not performed a distribution upgrade since Ubuntu 14.04. Since 16.04 just came out, I will be looking at doing that for my base level systems. Final most systems that I perform maintenance on, I will keep driving to completion successful installation of the target I was trying to install before attempting to reboot. Some things are not fixable.. Case in point the current Daily Builds for 16.04 Xenial have a Systemd bug that freezes the boot process. I could not find any workarounds and until the development team promotes corrective code to the nightly distribution, I cannot test those distributions. Gene On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Andrei Marinescu < iandrei.marine...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm also looking for a fix for this. I did a apt-get install kubuntu- > desktop this morning and it busted my package manager. I expect that if > I try to reboot the machine it's going to fail, since it failed midway > in installing KDE. > > Any workarounds, or at least rollback instructions available? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1488909 > > Title: > package kaccounts-providers (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: > trying to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', > which is also in package account-plugin-google > 0.12+15.10.20150723-0ubuntu1 > > Status in kaccounts-providers package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > Errors during kubuntu-desktop kubuntu-restricted-extras install after, > successful ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-restricted-extras install on a Ubuntu > Server 15.10 system. > > ProblemType: Package > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 > Package: kaccounts-providers (not installed) > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-3.3-generic 4.1.3 > Uname: Linux 4.1.0-3-generic x86_64 > ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu7 > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Tue Aug 25 18:00:45 2015 > DuplicateSignature: package:kaccounts-providers:(not installed):trying > to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also > in package account-plugin-google 0.12+15.10.20150723-0ubuntu1 > ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite > '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also in package > account-plugin-google 0.12+15.10.20150723-0ubuntu1 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-25 (0 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 > (20150825) > RelatedPackageVersions: > dpkg 1.18.2ubuntu2 > apt 1.0.9.10ubuntu6 > SourcePackage: kaccounts-providers > Title: package kaccounts-providers (not installed) failed to > install/upgrade: trying to overwrite > '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also in package > account-plugin-google 0.12+15.10.20150723-0ubuntu1 > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kaccounts-providers/+bug/1488909/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1488909 Title: package kaccounts-providers (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also in package account-plugin-google 0.12+15.10.20150723-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kaccounts-providers/+bug/1488909/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
