milanuk
12-11-2000, 03:07 PM
Hello, all.
I'm in a bit of a dilemma here. I reinstalled Debian 2.2r0 last night (I've flip-flopped btwn distros a bit over the last week or so, and think I will finally commit to Debian for now http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif ), and followed that w/ manually running XF86Setup, since anXious hasn't gotten X right yet on my box, and then uncommenting the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to the debian mirrors for stable and security updates. I ran 'apt-get update', followed by 'apt-get upgrade -ud' to download the updates to 2.2r2 overnite for later installation. I got to the computer this morning, and it showed that one or two packages had failed to download, which w/ my connection is normal. I sat down to just clear the screen and re-run the 'apt-get upgrade -ud', and lo and behold, the terminal is locked up. Esc, Enter, Cntrl-c, Cntrl-D, nothing seems to work to make the command line take input. I changed to the second terminal, it works fine. I changed to tty7 (X) and it works fine as well. Back to tty1. Still doesn't work. I tried killing the bash session for the username from which I had su'd to root. Doesn't work. Process is still there. Tried killing the 'su' process. Tells me there's no process to kill. WTF?
Basically, out of sheer stubbornness, I'd like to learn how to fix this w/o rebooting the machine, which would be the easy way http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif
TIA,
Monte
I'm in a bit of a dilemma here. I reinstalled Debian 2.2r0 last night (I've flip-flopped btwn distros a bit over the last week or so, and think I will finally commit to Debian for now http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif ), and followed that w/ manually running XF86Setup, since anXious hasn't gotten X right yet on my box, and then uncommenting the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to the debian mirrors for stable and security updates. I ran 'apt-get update', followed by 'apt-get upgrade -ud' to download the updates to 2.2r2 overnite for later installation. I got to the computer this morning, and it showed that one or two packages had failed to download, which w/ my connection is normal. I sat down to just clear the screen and re-run the 'apt-get upgrade -ud', and lo and behold, the terminal is locked up. Esc, Enter, Cntrl-c, Cntrl-D, nothing seems to work to make the command line take input. I changed to the second terminal, it works fine. I changed to tty7 (X) and it works fine as well. Back to tty1. Still doesn't work. I tried killing the bash session for the username from which I had su'd to root. Doesn't work. Process is still there. Tried killing the 'su' process. Tells me there's no process to kill. WTF?
Basically, out of sheer stubbornness, I'd like to learn how to fix this w/o rebooting the machine, which would be the easy way http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif
TIA,
Monte