On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:53:05PM +0530, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > Hi all, > > After about a fortnight, I tried to update my Debian squeeze desktop, > 300 updates. > > I issue a safe-upgrade, but the electricity goes out just as the > updates begin downloading. After I turn the computer back on, issuing > a safe-upgrade shows there are no updates! I try to aptitude update
The power going out during this process has caused this. > but it thinks that the repositories are already updated, though > apt-cache show nautilus gives the version 2.28.4. As I was in a hurry > at the time, I just deleted /var/lib/apt/lists, so aptitude had no OK, so "/var/lib/apt/lists" was probably corrupted. >I am curious as to how this (bug?) could have occurred. Well, the power going out has obviously affected "/var/lib/apt/lists" could be because the kernel didn't have a chance to flush its write buffers? >After all this I checked > mirror.cse.iitk.ac.in and it does have nautilus 2.30.1, so maybe the > first no-updates scenario was also caused by this bug/problem. The mirror could have synced meantime. -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100513044430.gb18...@fischer
