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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: cntrl-c hit before finish of upgrade -- seems to have completed
why do I need to run dist-upgrade?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> Thank you der Hans.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:01 PM, der.hans <> wrote:
>
>> Am 22. Dez, 2014 schwätzte Michael Havens so:
>>
>> moin moin Mike,
>>
>> interrupting an apt upgrade is usually OK, but it can leave packages in a
>> bad state. If one of those packages are important, then it can be a
>> challenge to recover.
>>
>> In this particular case, you probably need to run "dpkg --configure -a"
>> and "apt-get -f install" to make sure your package database is in a
>> consistent state. After that do a new update and a new dist-upgrade just
>> to make sure everything is in order.
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>>
>> I'm not sure I need to do anything with this now. I was upgrading with
>>> apt-get and before it was done pressed cntrl-c before it was done. The
>>> last
>>> thing it said was that the operation was interrupted. But when I ran the
>>> command again the last line of the output said:
>>>
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>>
>>> Do I need to worry about anything?
>>> What about this file that won't upgrade?
>>>
>>> --terminal output
>>> sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get upgrade
>>> --snip--
>>> Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
>>> Setting up ntpdate (1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up ntp (1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.1) ...
>>> * Starting NTP server ntpd                                              [
>>> OK ]

>>>
>>> *W: Operation was interrupted before it could finish*
>>>
>>> bmike1@c521 ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>> linux-kernel-generic
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>> bmike1@c521 ~ $ sudo apt-get autoclean
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> Del linux-firmware 1.127.8 [20.7 MB]
>>> --snip--
>>> bmike1@c521 ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>> linux-kernel-generic
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>> bmike1@c521 ~ $
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
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