It not only is annoying, but on the brink of corrupting the system! Open as an user a xterm, sux in it, run aptitude herin and select one or more packages to be updated/reinstalled or whatsoever. When the files are fetched from the server, aptitude of course wants to install them. The first message you get is (abbreviated): dpkg-preconfigure is unable to reopen stdin. Are the packages now installed properly or is there a (slight?) chance, that something went wrong? And annoying is another thing on top of the mentioned mishaps from Martin and Francois. Open as user again a xterm, sux in it and start herin f.i. the midnight-commander, then click on the fullscreen button of mc. What gets fullscreen is not mc - it stays at exactly the same size as it was - but the xterm. I sincerely do hope, that someone out of the community is willing and able to help Meike to solve this mess. Peter Holm.
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