From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mta04bw.bigpond.com (mta04bw.bigpond.com [139.134.6.87]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651C84829 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:48:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:48:34 +1000 From: Peter Lavender To: Steven Pritchard Cc: Peter Lavender , PARISC Mailing List Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] help!!! apt-get dist-upgrade Message-ID: <20021015144834.I799@piglet> Reply-To: plaven@bigpond.net.au References: <20021015122720.E893@piglet> <20021014225413.A8042@osiris.silug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20021014225413.A8042@osiris.silug.org>; from steve@silug.org on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:54:13PM -0500 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: * Steven Pritchard (steve@silug.org) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:27:20PM +1000, Peter Lavender wrote: > > Now I have ssh'ed back to the box. How can I basically reconnect to > > the process and issue the Y to go ahead and complete the upgrade? > > You can't really. Next time, after you login, run "screen". Then, > when something like this happens, use "screen -D -r" to logout the old > session and reattach it to your current terminal. Belive it or not, but I usually use screen, however this time I just logged in a start the apt processes. > > I'd rather not kill it unless it's safe to do so. > > It should be. Apt is very good about just picking up where it left > off on the next run. Where is what I ended up doing and apt did the irght thing. Very encouraging. :) Thanks. Regards, Pete. -- Due to a lack of imagination, this signature will remain under construction indefinitely.