Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Guy Marcenac g...@posteurs.com was heard to say: While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. When I relog into the system, the files are locked and I can see a running safe-upgrade in the background, likely waiting for an input. I am afraid of

aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. When I relog into the system, the files are locked and I can see a running safe-upgrade in the background, likely waiting for an input. I am afraid of consistency problems if I kill the process and I don't know how to get the control back on this

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:40:11 +0200, Guy Marcenac g...@posteurs.com wrote: While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. the running process is aptitude safe-upgrade -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
Guy Marcenac wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:40:11 +0200, Guy Marcenac g...@posteurs.com wrote: While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. the running process is aptitude safe-upgrade Maybe you could wait 'till the process changes its state or finishes. -- To

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Florian Kriener
On Thursday 17 September 2009 10:40:11 Guy Marcenac wrote: While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. When I relog into the system, the files are locked and I can see a running safe-upgrade in the background, likely waiting for an input. I am afraid of consistency problems if I kill

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:18:34 +0200, Florian Kriener flor...@kriener.org wrote: you, by chance, use screen? That would be quite good, because you could Unfortunately I don't chance then to kill aptitude. I wouldn't worry to much about inconsistencies, since you already have them now. Just kill

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:10:31 +0300, Aioanei Rares debian.dev.l...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you could wait 'till the process changes its state or finishes. It won't. It's been running for 12 hours now. Thanks -- Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Florian Kriener
On Thursday 17 September 2009 11:37:03 Guy Marcenac wrote: chance then to kill aptitude. I wouldn't worry to much about inconsistencies, since you already have them now. Just kill it and try I'll be waiting for any other idea, but It seems I will have no other choice left. Just kill it

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Guy Marcenac
Florian Kriener wrote: Just kill it already. :-) If you just send a SIGTERM it should even die gracefully. If that does It did I then run dpkg --configure -a and everything seems ok Thanks BTW: Please don't CC me. Sorry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org