In the future apt-brtfs could be the way to go - taking snaphsots of the system and reverting the state on broken operations. But also a problem for systems with /home and /root on the same parition.
We cannot safely kill the maintainer script. We can only try to recover as goog as possible. Running FixIncompleteInstall and FixBrokenDepends (dpkg --configure -a and apt-get install -f) On older systems a large installation can take longer than 30 minutes. E.g. think of people running on USB drives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/856533 Title: Poor feedback, and no ability to escape, when an installation hangs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/856533/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
