| snail | ibeardslee: there used to be some package that recommended three restarts between upgrades | 00:09 |
|---|---|---|
| snail | ibeardslee: i think it was a grub upgrade? | 00:09 |
| ojwb | what i tell you three times must be true? | 00:10 |
| ibeardslee | I think the grub -> grub2/grubpc recommends something like that before actually removing grub | 00:12 |
| hads | Hmm. I am running do-release-upgrade in screen. I disconnected from my screen and it appears screen has been uninstalled. | 01:39 |
| hads | I can't re-install it since dpkg is already running. That's quite amusing. | 01:39 |
| mwhudson | :) | 01:39 |
| ajmitch | that's very irritating :) | 01:39 |
| mwhudson | hope it's not trying to ask you a question | 01:39 |
| hads | I guess I'll wait a while and see if it's unlocked when it finishes. | 01:40 |
| hads | Oh yes, questions. Bummer. | 01:40 |
| ajmitch | there shouldn't be any reason why screen would get uninstalled | 01:40 |
| mwhudson | i guess you can man-handle the deb to get the binary out and run that? | 01:40 |
| hads | Yeah, that's what I was thinking if worst comes to worst. | 01:40 |
| hads | ajmitch: Yeah, odd. | 01:41 |
| ajmitch | dpkg-deb should allow you to get the files out, if you're desperate | 01:41 |
| ojwb | hads: download the .deb by hand and unpack it? | 01:41 |
| ojwb | or ar and tar... | 01:41 |
| ajmitch | or just wait & see if it finishes the upgrade :) | 01:42 |
| ojwb | hmm, I wonder if you can run screen from under /proc | 01:43 |
| ojwb | since it's presumably still running | 01:43 |
| ajmitch | using the open fd? | 01:43 |
| ojwb | or something like that | 01:43 |
| hads | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2011-02-15 14:37 /proc/7744/exe -> /usr/bin/screen.real (deleted) | 01:43 |
| ojwb | /proc/<PID>/exe is a symlink, so that's no help | 01:43 |
| ojwb | yeah | 01:43 |
| ajmitch | the fd allows you to get the file contents | 01:44 |
| ojwb | indeed | 01:44 |
| ojwb | you may need to copy it rather than executing from the fd | 01:44 |
| ajmitch | maybe not useful for screen, but useful for other deleted files | 01:44 |
| ojwb | yes, I've salvaged files that way before | 01:44 |
| ajmitch | I'd probably use the screen binary from the .deb rather than doing it that way | 01:45 |
| hads | Hey, it's installed again. | 01:45 |
| ajmitch | good | 01:45 |
| hads | That's useful. | 01:45 |
| hads | Wonder what happened there. | 01:45 |
| ajmitch | then all our speculation for how to unbreak it is unnecssary :) | 01:45 |
| hads | I thought the package was upgraded rather than removed for some minutes and then replaced. | 01:46 |
| ajmitch | I can't remember what order it's done in, files are unpacked as a different name (eg screen.dpkg-new) & then renamed in place | 01:46 |
| hads | Ah okay. | 01:47 |
| hads | I wonder if it's something to do with the fact that it's actually screen.real too. | 01:47 |
| ajmitch | could be, alternatives can make things a bit screwy | 01:47 |
| ajmitch | or wrapper scripts like that | 01:47 |
| hads | Oh well all better now, that would have been an interesting twist to the upgrade. | 01:47 |
| ajmitch | heh | 01:48 |
| ajmitch | not as bad as sshd getting killed mid-upgrade | 01:48 |
| hads | heh | 01:48 |
| mwhudson | my machine spontaneously rebooted while most of the new packages weren't configured once :/ | 01:51 |
| ajmitch | yeah, that can leave things in a bad state | 01:53 |
| Atamira | ive been through that too | 01:54 |
| Atamira | annoying | 01:54 |
| ajmitch | times like that you want to be able to use filesystem snapshotting | 01:54 |
| mwhudson | luckily there was enough configured to boot to a console | 01:56 |
| ajmitch | morning | 17:59 |
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| === 5EXAB34GN is now known as tomaw | ||
| ibeardslee | morning | 18:38 |
| ojwb | morning | 20:06 |
| mwhudson | morning | 20:28 |
| chilts | morning | 21:13 |
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| thumper | morning | 21:39 |
| Atamira | mornin | 22:49 |
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